En mi clase

Last week Spanish 1 students learned the vocabulary of the classroom.  They can now tell you what items they have with them in class, in their estuches (pencil cases), and in general, what things are present in the classroom.  We also talked about gender, how everything in Spanish is either male or female even if it is an inanimate object, and how that affects the language (unlike English which does make this distinction).  We looked at a classroom supply list from Spain and compared it to ours.  We played classroom Bingo and another game that got everyone off their feet and moving to learn the names of all these classroom things.  Next lesson:  counting and time.

¿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.