St. John's Spanish Blog

This blog will be used primarily to keep both the students and their parents informed of class lessons and assignments.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

FIFTH GRADE


Wednesday, 24 January 2007

  • Time worksheet due from last Thursday
  • Review date and time
  • HOMEWORK: study for exam

Thursday, 25 January 2007

  • TEST ON DATE AND TIME
  • If time permits, introduction to the seasons and seasons project

Wednesday, 31 January 2007

  • Introduction to the seasons and the weather (QUIZ WILL BE GIVEN ON FEBRUARY 08)
  • Introduction to the seasons project
  • Introduction to the Spanish alphabet (ORAL ALPHABET QUIZ: 22 FEBRUARY)
  • HOMEWORK:STUDENTS SHOULD BEGIN WORK ON THEIR SEASONS PROJECT (35 points, due February 15)

Thursday, 01 February 2007

  • NO CLASS DUE TO PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

Wednesday, 07 February 2007

  • Review of the seasons and weather
  • Alphabet practice
  • BEGIN GREETINGS UNIT (GREETINGS UNIT EXAM: 22 FEBRUARY)
  • Introduction to in the classroom vocabulary and basic Spanish greetings
  • HOMEWORK: work on project and study for quiz

Thursday, 08 February 2007

  • QUIZ ON THE SEASONS AND THE WEATHER
  • Review alphabet
  • Students will be able to ask and answer, "What is your name?"
  • HOMEWORK: work on project

SIXTH GRADE

Wednesday/Thursday, 24/25 January 2007

  • Review of ordinal numbers
  • Review of prepositions
  • Review of alphabet
  • HOMEWORK: study for written quiz on ordinal numbers and prepositions
  • HOMEWORK: study for oral quiz of the Spanish alphabet

Friday, 26 January 2007

  • WRITTEN QUIZ ON ORDINAL NUMBERS AND PREPOSITIONS
  • ORAL QUIZ OF THE SPANISH ALPHABET

Wednesday, 31 January 2007

  • video

Thursday, 01 February 2007

  • NO CLASS DUE TO PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

Friday, 02 February 2007

  • Both classes will have time to finish last Friday's quiz on ordinal numbers and prepositions (due to the two-hour delay, they did not have enough time).

Wednesday/Thursday, 07/08 February 2007

  • Activities to review telling time in Spanish
  • HOMEWORK: finish worksheet?

Friday, 09 February 2007

  • BEGIN GREETINGS UNIT (TEST 28 FEBRUARY OR 01 MARCH)
  • Introduction to common classroom objects
  • Introduction to basic Spanish greetings
  • HOMEWORK: study vocabulary

SEVENTH GRADE

Wednesday, 24 January 2007

  • Collect 3x each of numbers
  • Review pronouns
  • Review numbers
  • Review alphabet
  • Learn days of the week and months of the year
  • HOMEWORK: study pronouns

Thursday, 25 January 2007

  • Using previously acquired knowledge of numbers, days and months, learn how to give the date
  • HOMEWORK: Number Review Worksheet

Wednesday, 31 January 2007

  • NO CLASS DUE TO SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE SKI TRIP

Thursday, 01 February 2007

  • NO CLASS DUE TO PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

Wednesday, 07 February 2007

  • discussion on the importance of studying spanish
  • Ordinal numbers and prepositions
  • Review date writing
  • HOMEWORK: a three page essay on the importance of the Spanish language: typed, double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman font, one-inch margins on all four sides of the paper, due: Wednesday, 14 February 2007

Thursday, 08 February 2007

  • quiz on dates and months
  • more work with ordinal numbers and prepositions
  • HOMEWORK: continue working on essay

EIGHTH GRADE

Wednesday, 24 January 2007

  • Review alphabet
  • work on conjugating regular "-ar" verbs
  • HOMEWORK: study

Friday, 26 January 2007

  • Review alphabet
  • work on conjugating regular "-er" and "-ir" verbs
  • HOMEWORK: study

Wednesday, 31 January 2007

  • NO CLASS DUE TO THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE SKI TRIP

Friday, 02 February 2007

  • more practice conjugating regular -ER and -IR verbs
  • QUIZ ON VERB CONJUGATING: 09 FEBRUARY

Wednesday, 07 February 2007

  • verb conjugation review
  • introduction to numbers

Friday, 09 February 2007

  • Quiz on regular verb conjugation
  • Post quiz activity: Write the following numbers three times each (16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 28, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000)
  • HOMEWORK: finish post quiz activity