Sra. Carretero's 7th and 8th Grade Spanish Class

4/16/12 BIENVENIDOS DE NUEVO.  I hope you had great Mini-Mesters, mine was wonderful!!!!!!!, and I appreciate all the students who came to my Mini-Mestesr: MUCHAS GRACIAS. Today we did exercise 7, p. 193, and you were able to practice items from the vocabulary.  Then the indirect object pronoun, which won’t be as difficult as I [...]

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Today has been my birthday, and my students sang me the Happy Birthday to you…  I gave them candy, and then the progress reports and the quizzes.  We went over the quiz because it’s important for them to learn from their mistakes.  We talked also about the origin of their families, we had ten different [...]

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My second class did a great presentation of the homework, in the first one, I just collected it without realizing they could have talked about it. The ones who did the presentation talked about the Spanish Royal Family, and compared them with a famous family in the USA. One of my students made a mistake [...]

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I made a lot of questions about the family as a review like how many people are in your family, what’s your father’s name, your mother’s, do you have sisters and brothers, were are they from, and then I asked another student to tell me all the info about her/his classmate.  Then we reviewed some [...]

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¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO! I hope everybody had a great time.  Some of my students told me that they were able to speak Spanish with native speakers.  They felt good about it.  I brought them a special candy from Spain that we only eat at Christmas.  It is call TURRÓN, and some brand names are handmade, [...]

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Finally we finish the photographs, everybody introduced her/his family to the class.  Repeating the same questions has been a good exercise, at this age they are sponges, and learn fast, I’m surprised because my adult students in colleges and universities took them longer to learn the same staff.  They sang the VILLANCICO again, and learned [...]

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9/01/2011 I almost couldn’t talk today, but we went trough the material together. In 7th Grade we went over the time again and played a game with a big clock on the board. I had a lot of volunteers. With 8th grade we reviewed the verb GUSTAR, and we listened to a song with ME [...]

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Today we performed the lesson, and you wrote a dialogue that was very creative. I’m very proud of you. Good work! Hasta mañana, Sra. Rodríguez 8/18/2011 Very important class to “octavo grado” (8th grade), nouns, articles, and gender. It was a review from last year, but necessary. The alphabet went better in one of my [...]

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Today was a beautiful day. I have great students, some of them knew a lot about Spain, like the running of the bulls, and Real Madrid, and others have been in Spanish speaking countries. Thank you to all of you for making a great day. Sra. Rodríguez

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Hola, ¿Qué tal el verano? Espero que muy bien. Vamos a aprender muchas cosas nuevas y divertidas. ¡Ánimo! Ya veréis qué divertido es aprender español. ¡Hasta pronto! La profesora

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