Dear Lower
School Spanish Families,
Now that it
is January, we are officially halfway through the year and that means it is
time to switch language classes. This
semester I am teaching Spanish to Mrs. George’s Kindergarten class, Mrs. Krochmal’s
first grade class and Mrs. Dubé’s second grade class.
Kindergarten: They have all gotten off to a good start with
a study of greetings. They have been introduced to the questions, ¿Cómo estás? (How are you?) and ¿Cómo te llams? (What’s your name). Then it is on to numbers and colors.
First graders: They have also
gotten off to a good start with greetings and polite words. It’s always important to know how to say
“please” and “thank you” in any language!
They have started creating the first few pages of their own diccionario español.
Second graders: Now that the
study of greetings and polite words are a review for most of the second
graders, they can have fun with the phrases.
They had a great time acting out a short
conversation in different scenarios. We
have some budding actors who had fun portraying two movie stars, two babies, two
cowboys, etc. greeting each other!
Third &
Fourth graders: They have spent the last
month diligently adding pages to their Un
día con (girl’s name) y (boy’s name) books.
We are up to Capíitulo (Chapter) 5 where their Spanish characters are at
school. They have learned the vocabulary
that goes with morning routines, eating breakfast, going to school and
classroom commands and objects.
Fifth
graders: They have been working on vocabulary
around things in a classroom – everything from una ventana (a window) to un
lápiz (a pencil). Once they learned
a few prepositions and verbs, they were then able to take the next step to read
and write sentences and paragraphs. Each
student created a short book entitled ¿Dónde está Señor Taco? . They did a wonderful job of drawing
pictures to illustrate sentences like Señor
Taco está bajo la silla. (Mr. Taco
is under the chair.) Stop by the Spanish
bulletin board to take a look at their books.
We are all fully engaged and having fun with Spanish in the
Lower School!
Saludos,
Sra. Swift
