1st Grade: March 18, 2015

Today in class, we continued learning about community related vocabulary words in Spanish.  This week, we learned about some important people in our community.

Ask your student:

• Do you remember the actions you learned for each of the new words?  (El vecino: wave hello, la profesora: point to Sra. Brouwer, el bombero: pretend to hold a fire hose, el policia: pretend to blow a whistle and direct traffic, el cartero: pretend to put mail in mailboxes, el pastor: say "Amén," el médico: pretend to listen to a heartbeat.) 

This week's vocabulary:

• el vecino - the neighbor
• la profesora - the teacher
• el bombero - the firefighter
• el policía - the police officer
• el cartero - the mail carrier
• el pastor - the pastor/minister
• el médico - the doctor

Homework:

• Sing along with our new song: "Ponte el cinturón"...a song all about wearing your seatbelt to stay safe! :)
• Practice last week's vocabulary words (places in the community) with THIS video. 
• Practice this week's vocabulary words (people in the community) with THIS video.
• Bible verse for March-May:  Hebrews 13:8 (Click for audio version)
• Jesucristo es el mismo ayer, hoy, y siempre.  Hebreos 13 versículo 8.
• Bible verse for January and February: 1 John 14:19  (Click for audio version)
• Nosotros amamos porque Él nos amó primero.  Primero de Juan 14 versículo 19.

• To review calendar/weather vocabulary at home, you can sing along with these songs...
• Days of the week
• Weather, seasons, and months

Kindergarten: March 18, 2015

Today in class, we learned two traditional rhymes all about food!

Ask your student:

• Can you show me the "Chocolate" hand clap?  (A short video is linked in the vocabulary section.)
• What did you do with playdough in class today?  (We used it to "clap" out tortillas in our hands.)

This week's vocabulary:

• Chocolate
• Lyrics and translation HERE.
• Hand Clap Video
• Foot Jump Video
• Tortillitas, Tortillitas (There are many versions of this hand clap, below is the version I taught in class)
• Tortillitas, tortillitas.  Tortillitas para mamá, tortillitas para papá.  Las bonitas para papá, las calentitas para mamá.
• Little tortillas, little tortillas.  Little tortillas for mom, little tortillas for dad.  The nice ones for dad, the warm ones for mom.

Homework:

• Watch our new song and practice the actions!  5 Ratoncitos, Chocolate
• We also learned another new song!  Sing along!  Alele, alelu, alelu, aleluya
• Practice our Bible verse and actions:  Psalm 23:1  (Click verse for Audio). 
• el Señor = the Lord = point up to heaven
• es mi = is my = point to self 
• pastor = shepherd = pretend to hold a staff in one hand, put other hand by forehead as if you're looking out over a field of sheep. 
• nada = nothing = wave hands palms facing down
• me falta = is lacking to me = place hands at side, palms facing upward.

5th and 6th Grade: March 11, 2015

Over the next few weeks, we'll be talking about a popular Spanish festival, Las Fallas.  The festival takes place every March in Valencia, Spain.  We'll be reading a short story (in Spanish!) to learn about the festival and review a lot of the vocabulary we have learned this year.

Ask your student:

• What is what thing you learned about "Las Fallas" so far?  (It's a festival in Valencia, Spain.  It takes place in March.  They make huge statues out of wood and paper mache and burn them.)

This week's vocabulary:

• hermanos - siblings
• viven - they live
• su/sus - his, her, their
• alegres - happy 
• quieren - they want
• con - with
• abre - he/she opens
• vestidos - dresses
• encuentra - he/she finds
• empieza - it begins
• montan - they set up
• termina - it ends
• queman - they burn
• llevan - they wear
• falleras - girls who wear the traditional clothing at the festival
• falleros - boys who wear the traditional clothing at the festival
• fallas - huge statues made of paper mache.  They are like 3-D political cartoons.

Homework

• New Bible Memory Passage:  The Lord's Prayer
• Passage typed out HERE.
• Audio Version
• Our new song: Countries and Capitals of Central America/The Caribbean and Countries and Capitals in Reverse.  We'll be listening to this song in class each week.  The goal is for students to learn all of the countries and capitals by the end of April.
• Review the basic Spanish vocabulary with THIS game.  
• Quia Assignment (worth 2 pegatinas).  For the assignment, you will need the reading we started in class.  If you misplaced or left your paper at school, you can print/view a copy HERE.

3rd and 4th Grade: March 11, 2015

Today in class, we began a new unit.  Over the next few weeks, we'll be learning the vocabulary to retell a Bible story all in Spanish!

Ask your student:

• What Bible story do you think you'll be learning about in class?  (At the end of class, every student made a guess.  5 students got it right!  We'll learn more words next week.)

Today's vocabulary:

• quiere ir (a) - he/she wants to go (to)
• habla - he/she speaks
• oye - he/she hears
• ¡Oye! is also used as an informal way to get someone's attention--like "Hey!" in English.
• el hombre - the man
• la ciudad - the city 
• otro/otra - other
• escucha - he/she listens
• va (a) - he/she goes (to)
• ¡Va! is also used as a command:  Go!

Homework:

• Listen and sing along with our song:  Eres Todopoderoso.
• Practice our vocabulary words with these activities:  Flashcards/Matching, Hangman
• Quia assignment.  (Completing this assignment is worth 2 pegatinas)
• January/February Bible Verse:  James 4:8 (AUDIO Version)
• Acérquense a Dios, y Él se acercará a ustedes.  Santiago 4 versículo 8.

2nd and 3rd Grade: March 11, 2015

This week, we started a new unit!  We'll be learning the vocabulary words to tell the story of David and Goliath in Spanish!

Ask your student:

• How can you remember that the word for "sheep" is "oveja" (pronounced "OBEY-ha")? (Sheep have to obey their shepherd, just like we are God's sheep and Jesus is our Good Shepherd.  Also, in Spanish, sheep say "Beeeeee" instead of "baaa."  You can have fun saying OBEEEEEEY-ha and sounding like sheep!)

This week's vocabulary:

• David - David
• el pastor -the shepherd
• la oveja - the sheep
• Goliat - Goliath
• el soldado - the soldier
• el casco - the helmet

Homework:

• Sing along with our new song: Con su arpa toca David (Little David Play on Your Harp)
• Practice our new Bible Memory verse:  1 Corinthians 13:4 (Audio Version)
• El amor es paciente, es bondadoso.  1 de Corintios 13:4 (Primero de Corintios trece versículo cuatro)

1st Grade: March 11, 2015

This week, we began a unit about community-related vocabulary words.  This week, we learned about 6 different places in our community.

Ask your student:

• Do you remember the actions you learned for each of the new words?  (La casa: hold two arms over head like a roof; la escuela: stomp feet--as if to say "right here," el hospital: ambulance noise, la iglesia: fold hands, holding up index fingers as a steeple, el supermercado: pretend to push a cart, la tienda: pretend to pay for something.) 

This week's vocabulary:

• la casa - the house
• el supermercado - the supermarket
• la escuela - the school
• el hospital - the hospital 
• la iglesia - the church
• la tienda - the store

Homework:

• Sing along with our new song: "Ponte el cinturón"...a song all about wearing your seatbelt to stay safe! :)
• Practice our new vocabulary words with THIS video. 
• Bible verse for January and February: 1 John 14:19  (Click for audio version)
• Nosotros amamos porque Él nos amó primero.  Primero de Juan 14 versículo 19.
• Bible verse for March-May:  Hebrews 13:8 (Click for audio version)
• Jesucristo es el mismo ayer, hoy, y siempre.  Hebreos 13 versículo 8.

• To review calendar/weather vocabulary at home, you can sing along with these songs...
• Days of the week
• Weather, seasons, and months

Kindergarten: March 11, 2015

Today in class, we started our new unit!  Over the next few weeks, we'll be learning traditional action songs and hand claps from the Spanish speaking world.

Ask your student:

• You learned a new song in Spanish class today.  What was it about?  (It was about 5 mice playing.)

This week's vocabulary:

• Un Ratoncito Sale de la Cueva
• Un ratoncito - a mouse
• salen - they leave or go out
• la cueva - the cave
• mueven - they move
• el hocico - the snout
• juegan - they play
• a la ronda - in a circle
• 5 ratoncitos salen de la cueva, mueven el hocico, juegan a la ronda.
• 5 little mice go out of the cave, they move their snouts, play in a circle.
• The song counts down (4 mice, 3 mice...) until just one mouse is left. 

Homework:

• Watch our new song and practice the actions!  5 Ratoncitos
• We also learned another new song!  Sing along!  Alele, alelu, alelu, aleluya
• Practice our Bible verse and actions:  Psalm 23:1  (Click verse for Audio). 
• el Señor = the Lord = point up to heaven
• es mi = is my = point to self 
• pastor = shepherd = pretend to hold a staff in one hand, put other hand by forehead as if you're looking out over a field of sheep. 
• nada = nothing = wave hands palms facing down
• me falta = is lacking to me = place hands at side, palms facing upward.

5th and 6th Grade: March 4, 2015

Today in class we finished our unit about "las descripciones/descriptions."  We looked at some paintings by Spanish speaking artists and described people in the paintings.

Ask your student:

• What do you remember about the paintings you saw in class?  (We looked at paintings by Fernando Botero (Colombia) and Simón Silva (Mexico).
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• Orgullo de familia (Pride of Family), Simon Silva

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• El general y su familia (The General and His Family), Fernando Botero

This week's vocabulary:

• Review

Homework

• New Bible Memory Passage:  The Lord's Prayer
• Passage typed out HERE.
• Audio Version
• Our new song: Countries and Capitals of Central America/The Caribbean.  We'll be listening to this song in class each week.  The goal is for students to learn all of the countries and capitals by the end of April.
• Our final assignment for this unit was handed out in class.  If you misplaced it, you can print another copy HERE.  The assignment will be next Wednesday, March 11.
• Body parts vocabulary (if you need it to help with your homework assignment): 
  
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3rd and 4th Grade: March 4, 2015

Today in class, we finished talking about cascarones by reading Carmen Lomas Garza's own description of her painting.

Ask your student:

• Do you remember what Carmen Lomas Garza said about making cascarones in her family?  What would her brothers always do? (They would make cascarones together.  On Easter, after church, they would go swimming, and after swimming they would eat lunch.  After they ate, they would take out the cascarones.  Sometimes her brothers would put flour in the cascarones.  Then it would turn into a messy paste in everyone's wet hair.) 

This week's vocabulary:

• traviesos - sneaky, mischievous 
• nuestros hermanos - our siblings
• cabezas - heads
• harina - flour

Homework:

• Sing along with our song:  Siempre que me muevo
• Our assignment was handed out in class.  If you misplaced it, you can print another copy HERE. ****Please note***The handout says the assignment is due April 17.  That is a mistake.  It is due March 11.  
• Also for the assignment, you may need the following links:
• Sandía Painting
• Tamalada Painting
• Tamalada Reading
• January/February Bible Verse:  James 4:8 (AUDIO Version)
• Acérquense a Dios, y Él se acercará a ustedes.  Santiago 4 versículo 8.

2nd and 3rd Grade: March 4, 2015

Today in class, we finished our unit about school related vocabulary words.

Ask your student:

• Can you name 3 things (in Spanish) that are in your mochila? (See how many words your student remembers!) 

This week's vocabulary:

• Review

Homework:

• Sing along with our new song: Paz como un río (Peace Like a River)
• Learn our vocabulary words with THIS slide show.
• Practice our vocabulary words with THIS game.
• Watch some of the vocabulary videos we watched in class:  Vocabulary intro, LaLaLaLaLa Vocabulary, 
• Practice our new Bible Memory verse:  1 Corinthians 13:4 (Audio Version)
• El amor es paciente, es bondadoso.  1 de Corintios 13:4 (Primero de Corintios trece versículo cuatro)

1st Grade: March 4, 2015

In class this week, we read the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 in class.

Ask your student:

• In the story book, what sound did the rumbling stomachs make?  (The book we read repeated the line "Ron, ron, los estómagos gruñen" several times.  Translation:  Rumble, rumble, the stomachs growled.)  

Today's vocabulary:

• Review from last week

Homework:

• Sing along with our song:  "La B-I-B-L-I-A"
• New Bible verse for January and February: 1 John 14:19  (Click for audio version)
• Nosotros amamos porque Él nos amó primero.  Primero de Juan 14 versículo 19.
• To review calendar/weather vocabulary at home, you can sing along with these songs...
• Days of the week
• Weather, seasons, and months

Kindergarten: March 4, 2015

Today in class, we read the story of Noah's Ark in Spanish!

Ask your student:

• What word did you have to act out over and over in class?  (As a review game, most, but not all, students one of our vocabulary words that they had to keep acting out as we reviewed all of our words.  Next week, we'll all work together to understand our Bible story in Spanish.)  

This week's vocabulary:

• Review

Homework:

• Sing along with our two songs:  "La B-I-B-L-I-A" and the song about Noah and his "floating house".  
• Practice our Bible verse and actions:  Psalm 23:1  (Click verse for Audio). 
• el Señor = the Lord = point up to heaven
• es mi = is my = point to self 
• pastor = shepherd = pretend to hold a staff in one hand, put other hand by forehead as if you're looking out over a field of sheep. 
• nada = nothing = wave hands palms facing down
• me falta = is lacking to me = place hands at side, palms facing upward.