¿Qué hay de nuevo?

It has been a few weeks since we last posted. However, that does not mean we have not been busy. In that time we have learned all the counties and capitals of the Hispanic world. (We can even sing them for you if you wish.) We have also learned how to describe our classroom and the names for most items found in a typical classroom. I believe it was Nacho who set a new record for the Hungry Bug vocabulary game for this chapter. I don't remember exactly what his point total was, but it was one that will definitely be hard to beat. We have also learned how to count in Spanish (0 - 1.000.000+) and most recently, to tell time in Spanish. Coming up soon: days, months, seasons, and the weather.

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.