03 January 2016

Another mid-term.....already?

Went to write a new post, and found that I had never published this one!

Wow, the second quarter is already half done.  The school year is definitely flying by.  Here is what has been happening in Spanish classes the past couple of weeks:

Spanish 1:  students have been learning how to describe ourselves and others (only in the most complementary terms, of course).  Students made "Selfie" portraits and described themselves and also made fotobabbles in which they talked about and described some of their friends.  See the examples below:





Spanish 2:  students have learned how to talk about their daily routine, from the time they get up to the time they fall asleep at night.  They did a variety of projects that described the routines of various people.  (See below.) and continue to show their competitive streak in our daily game of Around the World vocabulary review.


Spanish 3:  students finished up a unit in which we reviewed daily routines.  They wrote letters to their (imaginary) host families in which they described their horrible (imaginary) college roommate who is the exact opposite of themselves.  I found the pictures they photoshopped of themselves on vacation and at college to be quite humorous.  (Example below.)



Spanish 4:  students have finished our unit on Monstruos y Miedos (Monsters and Fears).  They compared many monsters of American culture with those of Hispanic culture, as well as talked about things they used to be/are afraid of, and told stories of a time they were afraid.  As we also reviewed the past tenses in this unit, students also told stories from their past, played 2 Truths and 1 Lie with information from their past, and played detective to write the story of a missing person.  (What really happened to mi amiga, Helga?  They had some very interesting theories--I tried embedding one of their presentations, but apparently it is not compatible with blogger.)

All classes have started new units, but we won't forget to leave some time for some activities for Navidad.