¿De dónde eres?

This past week Spanish 1 students have been working on asking where someone is from as well as answering that question. Since it's not all that interesting when we are all from the same place, students spun the wheel and were given a Spanish-speaking city and country to be from. We are now a very globalized class with students from Suan Juan, Puerto Rico, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and various other exotic locales. Of course, part of being a global citizen is knowing various capital cities around the world, inour case, especially Hispanic ones. To help us learn them, we used a great song. Feel free to ask any of the Spanish 1 students to sing it for you. (I wouldn't be surprised if Spanish 2-4 students still remember it.

♪♪♪  México D.F., Méxioco, Guatemala, Guatemala, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.......♪♪♪ 

Quiero presentarme

Hola.

Spanish 1 students have been busy learning how to introduce themselves to one another as well as how to introduce their amigos and amigas to each another.  We did a short project to show you what we can do so far.  Using the website, www.voki.com, we created speaking avatars, recorded our voices, and this is what we got:

Adiós until next week.

Cantando el alfabeto

Week 2 down, and we were busy this week.  We learned some basic rules of Spanish pronunciation as well as the Spanish alphabet.  Highlight:  singing the alphabet song....go ahead, just ask any Spanish 1 student to sing it for you.  We also learned how to escape from class....or to ask permission to go somewhere--bathroom, locker, office, etc.  And we learned how to ask how to say or spell things in Spanish, as well as how to use the Spanish/English dictionary and how to type Spanish characters on the computer.  On to week 3.

Bienvenidos

Bienvenidos--welcome!!  We all have survived our first week in Spanish class.  I introduced myself to the class, completely in Spanish--Caramba!!!  Students were pretty surprised to find out that they could understand almost everything I said, even though they didn't know much Spanish at all.  So, the first lesson learned was that if you listen carefully, there are many similarities between Spanish and English, and you probably can pick out many words.  We have talked about our classroom rules and procedures (not exactly the most interesting of topics, but a necessary one). We also picked Spanish names and then learned how to introduce ourselves.  Students have also been able to log-in to our class wikipages and navigate around them to see what things are there for them to use.  They have learned how to call in oral assignments by cellphone or leave an online voice message, as well as how to hand in written assignments via an online dropbox.  We are trying to go more green and do more things online.  On to week 2.