29/10 - Calacas vestidas

1. Read the rest of Day of the Dead book, this part had to do with the celebration of the holiday.
2. Discuss: Entrance tickets to retake on Monday.
3. Assignment: Dress your "calaca" in such a way as you can use 40 vocab words to decribe it. Vocab includes clothing items, clothing accessories (button, pocket), fabrics, designs, and colors. DO NOT do the description now, just bear in mind while you are dressing it that you will need to describe it too. It is okay to dress front and back.

La tarea: For Monday, do entrance tickets and prepare for retake.
For Tuesday, pen pal letter rough drafts for Wisconsin writers, completely and classroom-appropriately dressed skeleton for everyone.

28/10 - Prueba de vocabulario

1. Practice quizzes
2. Quiz
3. Extra credit on quiz
4. Day of the Dead explanation - history and origins
5. New vocab - other side of vocab list, sections for "cosas que tienen que ver con la ropa" y "diseno."
6. Tomorrow: Cut out and dress a skeleton. Then, prepare a presentation of that skeleton for the class using at least 40 words from vocab list (ones from today and clothing, as well as colors). Oral presentations will be next week. No need to memorize, just read and pronounce well.

La tarea: NONE, except if you want to bring in any decorating stuff for the skeletons.

27/10 - Vocab practice

1. Retake entrance tickets available. Students were allowed to pick up sheets for any sections they will retake on Monday. They must bring in a completed entrance ticket on Monday to retake that section. PLEASE bring in your entrance ticket this week for me to check to make sure you are learning what you need to learn to do better!!!!
2. Esponja: categorize clothing vocab
3. Bingo with vocab
4. Make practice quizzes
5. Pen pal letters from Wisconsin. Students need to bring in a rough draft of their response tomorrow.
5. Holland pen pals: students need to read the explanation about determining the gender of nouns (you can get the explanation here). Then do the pyramid puzzle on the back of the explantion.

La tarea: finish gender puzzle OR rough draft.

26/10 - La Ropa

1. Esponja - describe what people are wearing.
2. Go over tests, retake on Monday but students must bring "entrance ticket" to retake any and all sections they want. Entrance tickets will be announced tomorrow; students will do an activity to increase their understanding of the grammatical point they will retake. This will be turned in when entering for the retake.
3. Vocab practice with clothing
4. "Me gusta tu collar." "Gracias. Me gustan tus zapatos." "Gracias" Students complimented each others clothes.

Period 7: Find Sra. NOT DURING CLASSTIME tomorrow and compliment an item of her clothing for extra credit. This offer good for Wednesday only!

Period 5: You will have the same offer for Weds after school - Thursday.

La tarea: continue familiarizing yourself with the clothing vocab. Quiz on Thursday!

22/10 - Examen, vocabulario nuevo, Sugar Skull on Monday!

1. 1B Test
2. Start new vocab list. (If you were absent and want the list over the weekend, email me and I will send it to you mphipps@lps.k12.co.us)
3. Translate vocab for "La Ropa" (do not do the rest of the list now).

La tarea: Make flashcards for ALL "la ropa" vocabulario. Do English on one side and Spanish on the other for credit. Do pictures instead of/in addition to the English for extra credit (one extra homework assignment credit)

21/10 - last chance test prep, test tomorrow!

1. Check tarea
2. Esponja - comparisons
3. Go over tarea - comparisons, special attention to the uses of tan ___ como versus tantos/as ____ como. Tan is used with adjectives, tanto/a/s is used with nouns.
4. Packet p11 - practice with stem changing verbs, choosing the correct one and conjugating.
5. Packet p24 - tan ___ como practice
6. Packet p22 - Hace ___ que practice.

La tarea: STUDY FOR TEST, bring in supplies for sugar skull on Monday.

20/10 - Saber/Conocer, Hace ___ que, Mas ___ que

1. Esponja - hace ___ que, mas ___ que.
2. go over quiz
3. Saber and conocer pretend quiz. Students did GREAT!
4. Packet, 2nd and 3rd pages.

La tarea: finish packet pages.

19/10 -- Irregular verb quiz, Saber/Conocer work TEST FRIDAY, all missing work due Thursday

1. Discuss sugar skulls. On Monday (when class does not meet) I will bring in sugar skulls for students to decorate. I showed pics or finished products from last year. Students will be provided with 1 sugaar skull and they NEED to sign up so I know how many to make. If they would like another skull or one for a friends, they need to contribute supplies: a 5 pound bag of sugar, 2 soda flats (you know, the cardoboard boxed that a case of soda or cans comes in), or 3 tubes/bottles of fabric paint. Supplies must be brought in by FRIDAY so I know how many skulls to make over the weekend.

2, Esponja - irregular verbs
3. Quiz
4. Saber/conocer review - pair worksheet

La tarea: new packet, front page only.

13/10 - Craft Day, IRREG VERB QUIZ ON TUES.

1. Discuss irregular verb quiz. Students are urged to study on the weekend and/or come in on Monday to practice!!!!!
2. Craft day for Monday: Bottle cap jewelry with Day of the Dead or other hispanic imagery. I have the caps and pics, it would be great if students could bring a pack of washers (1/2" is great)
3. Craft day today! Color, cut out, decorate a skull or skeleton picture for Day of the Dead.

La tarea: Fill out both Irreg worksheets, study for quiz!!!!!

12/10 - Repaso de "hace ___ que" y comparaciones, verbos irregulares

1. Esponja: saber/conocer activity (see book p. 56 for explanation)
2. Go over tarea wb pp 22 and 24. These were using the Hace (time frame) que ... and ___ es mas popular que ____ . (See text pp 53 and 58)
3. Irregular verb worksheet. This grid had all the irregulars we have learned last year and this year. Students had to fill out the English, type of irregularity, and "yo" form.
4. Irregular verb 2nd worksheet. A different way of presenting the info, students should do this sheet to test and see if they remember what they did on the first sheet.

La tarea: BRING ART SUPPLIES: glitter glue, construction paper, sequins, etc for Day of the Dead craft tomorrow.

Club de artesania (Craft Club) - lunes el 11 de octubre

We will try to make these kinds of figurines:
See more at Mexican Sugar Skull

I will bring in 1 recipe of salt dough; if a lot of people show up, we might not have enough so if you could bring a batch, that would be great. Please let me know if you are going to bring it (mphipps@lps.k12.co.us)

I am also hoping we might have time to mold some sugar skull that we could then decorate in 2 weeks (next week we will paint the figures from today and finish another project). If you could bring a bag of sugar, that would be great. I will bring supplies to make about 20 sugar skulls.

If you bring supplies, you get to make extra items!

Example of decorated sugar skull:

8/10 - Vocab quiz, go over work from yesterday, "tan"

1. Vocab quiz
2. do dialog with subtitles (translated yesterday)
3. Discussion of tan/tanto/tantos (text p. 53), do act. 10 in class

La tarea: WB pp 22 and 24

7/10 - sub day

Lo siento chicos, hoy estoy enferma. Pero voy a estar en la clase viernes!!

1. Translate pp 48-49; we will perform with subtitles tomorrow.
2. Do act. 4 on p. 50 (just write the words)
3. Study vocab for a Spanish to English quiz tomorrow.

I WILL check this work tomorrow, so DO IT!

6/10 - vocab practice, pregunatas personales

1. Esponja - workbook page
2. Pass off
3. vocab practice - preguntas personales. Each student had to answer 2-3 personal questions using new vocab.
4. translation pp 46-47
5. comparisons using pics of "la other clase" (famous people)

La tarea: none!

5/10 - conjugation grid pass off, Hace __ que __, comparisons

1. Esponja "Esta bien ser diferente"
2. Pop quiz - conjugation grid. Students had to label and fill out a perfect conjugation grid. This is a pass-off activity. When students get it perfect, the grade will be entered in the gradebook. Students will take the quiz every day until they get it right.
3. Pass back and go over tests from last week.
4. Check homework, share "Hace ___ que ___" sentences.
5. Sinple comparisons.

La tarea: prepare for conjugation grid pass off if you need to redo it.

Blog Bonus!

For readers of the blog only, you are getting a warning: On Tuesday, after esponjas and checking homework (vocab list and 2 sentences), we will have a pop quiz! This quiz will require you to make a blank conjugation grid and label the following items: Singular and Plural columns, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person. You will also have to fill in all the pronouns in Spanish and English (there are a total of 12 of them when you include masc and fem forms).

1/10 - Test, start new chapter

1. test
2. Comparisons: to choose the best thing out of a group, use this construction: (noun) más (adj) de (group) for example, el chico más alto de la clase. To name the best item, says "Danny es el chico más alto de la clase." You can also use menos to say the least/worst. "Danny es el chico menos bajo de la clase."
3. Then we learned how to compare 2 items. The construction is (Item 1) es más (adj) que (item 2). For example, "Mary es más bonita que Danny." We practiced comparing 2 people in the class and famous people.
4. Finally, we talked about time frame expressions. ¿Cuánto tiempo hace que (conj. Verb)? means “How long have you been ____” for example, ¿Cuánto tiempo hace que estudias español? (How long have you studied Spanish?). The answer is “Hace (time frame) que (conjugated verb), “Hace 14 meses que estudio español.”
You can also add “no” to the sentence to indicate how long it’s been since you did something. “Hace 2 años que no monto en bicicleta” “It’s been 2 years since I rode a bike.”

La tarea: finish filling out 1B side of vocab list. Write 2 sentences, 1 using "Hace (time frame) que (conj. verb)." 1 using "Hace (time frame) que no (conj. verb). Try to make these facts fascinating!!