It's voki time!

The start of another year. Once again time for beginning students to learn some basic phrases of introduction:

Hi!
What's your name?
How are you?
Where are you from?

These are some of the phrases we are currently working with. Just to show you that we can now introduce ourselves in Spanish, we created vokis, or talking avatars. As you can see, some of the avatars look like us, others not so much. But in all cases, it is really our voices you hear speaking Spanish. (Okay, maybe Pablo's is not his real voice.) ¡Muy bien!

Mi Casa

It's been a while since I have posted student work and I apologize for that. It doesn't mean that we haven't been learning and doing things--we certainly have. One of our recent Spanish 1 projects involved doing an MTV Cribs-style video of our homes. Students had fun videotaping and editing. We did have some minor technological glitches with this project--let's just say that now we know why it takes so long to make a feature-length movie. Here is an example of our project, by Alberto.

¡Qué delicioso!

Semester exam time means cooking time in Spanish 1. After a unit in which they learned the vocabulary for many food items, how to talk about the foods they like and dislike, and how meal customs in Hispanic countries are both similar and different from theirs, they got the opportunity to cook and eat a full course Hispanic meal. Sixth hour students (pictured below) made chilied pork, rice, refried beans, tortillas, tropical fruit salad, churros, and piña coladas (non-alcoholic, of course).