Welcome back to Spanish! I am so happy to begin a new school year. As usual it has started off so fast that I can barely keep up. There are many new faces and so many returning students. I'm so excited every time the students tell me they practice at home or have learned new words.
As we do every year, the kindergarteners come twice a week sharing their resource time with Music. This helps them immensely with learning the basics so quickly. They are mastering our basic greetings, the colors and numbers to 5. They are learning our routine songs quickly and are even saying some of the words of the calendar.
First graders are building on all they learned last year and are adding many new words for the school. Right now we are talking about school supplies like crayons, pencils, glue, scissors and backpacks. We will learn the places in school and review the people in school as well.
Second graders are beginning learning about the school and we are learning about how school is in Argentina. We are also starting a year long chart of the temperatures in Buenos Aires, Argentina and here in Chesterfield County. It should be interesting once we get into deep winter to see how the weather continues in Argentina.
Third graders are getting used to an entirely different Spanish class as we are now mostly working at the tables. They have notebooks to keep up with and to keep all of their materials in. We are doing our butterflies for symbolic migration now and will start with telling time soon. After that we will learn about the Mayas, Incas and Aztecs. That is always a fun unit with so many fun things to do in class.
Fourth graders are beginning to learn about the continents and oceans as part of their unit where will will talk about travel, immigration and colonization. They are also learning how to answer basic questions like: What is your name? and How old are you?
Fifth graders are learning about Great People. We will talk about some great Hispanic Americans and they will learn to describe people. We have started by filling out passports and are moving onto descriptions next.
I hope to be able to update more often this school year. Please contact me if you have any questions. michelle_melara@ccpsnet.net
Hasta luego...
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