K-6^th Grade Spanish----

¡El otoño está en al aire= Fall is in the air! First Quarter is done.

I would like to say that I am pleased with most students’ retention of previous year’s lessons. I am always assessing the students and reviewing words and phrases that I know I have taught. I usually do this in game form and discussion, rather than with pencil and paper.

I am teaching new words and phrases that will build off of what students should already know. If many students are not proficient at a skill that was taught before, I do more activities and pull small groups. As the year goes on, I get to know each student’s ability and try to have them use the vocabulary that they have been tested in. The saying, “If you don’t use it, you lose it” really is the key in a second language. So I keep circling back to calendar skills which include: today, tomorrow and yesterday, days of the week, months of the year and numbers, colors, animals, things in the classroom, and Spanish culture and concepts.

I look forward to a wonderful winter of Spanish culture and language!

Señora Barrette