2nd Grade: December 2, 2015

Today in class, we finished our unit about Peru by learning about Machu Picchu and looking at some traditional clothing.  We also played a Jeopardy-style game to review everything we learned.

Ask your student:

• Do you remember what Machu Picchu is?  (It is an old palace for an emperor/lost city of the Incas.  The mountain in the background looks like a face if you turn it on its side.) 
• Do you remember what "Machu Picchu" means?  ("Machu Picchu" comes from the Quechua language.  It means "the old mountain.")

This week's vocabulary:

• New
• el palacio - the palace
• vieja - old
• tradicional - traditional

• Review 
  • la bandera - the flag
  • rojo - red
  • blanco - white
  • el invierno - the winter
  • el verano - the summer
  • las estaciones - the seasons
  • el opuesto - the opposite
  • la playa - the beach
  • la capital - the capital city
• las montañas - the mountains
• los Andes - the Andes (mountains in Peru)
• la costa - the coast
• la playa - the beach
• la selva - the jungle
• el lago - the lake
• Lago Titicaca - Lake Titicaca (located between Peru and Bolivia)
• el río - the river
• el Río Amazonas - the Amazon River
• el pájaro - the bird
• el condor - the condor, a bird that lives in the Andes.  It is the largest flying bird with a wingspan of 11 feet!
• la llama - the llama
• la alpaca - a type of llama with very soft, warm, fur

Homework:

• Review what we learned about Peru by watching/listening to the SLIDE SHOW we use in class.
• Here's a link to the Jeopardy style game we played in class...it's all in Spanish!
• Some students wanted a copy of our Condor Hunt chant.  Here's the link (with an English translation, too!)
• Bible Memory Verse!  (We added verse 5 this week!)
• Canten al Señor con alegría, toda la tierra.  
• Con alegría adoren al Señor; ¡con gritos de alegría vengan a su presencia!  
• Reconozcan que Señor es Dios; él nos hizo y somos suyos;  ¡somos pueblo suyo y ovejas de su prado!  
• Entren por sus puertas con acción de gracias; vengan a sus atrios con himnos de alabanza. ¡Denle gracias, bendigan su nombre!
• Porque el Señor es bueno; su amor es eterno y su fidelidad no tiene fin.
• Salmos 100:1-5 (cien, versículos uno a cinco)
• Audio version 

• Listen to the Seasons Song.  This song is about the seasons in Michigan.  How would the song be different if we were singing it in Peru?  (Hmmm...my Spanish Songs Blog seems to be having technical difficulties.  Here's a LINK to the song on YouTube.)