Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Trivia

Did you know any of the Trivia questions? Here are the respuestas:

What is the name of the road that connected the Spanish missions in Mexico?
~El Camino Real
What is the name of the famous art museum in Madrid?
~El Prado
What is a charro?
~A Mexican cowboy

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Payne's Piñatas


Here's our Homebase poster that we've been working on for the last few weeks. Thanks to those of you who worked so hard on the poster. It looks great!

Friday, September 21, 2007

¡Trivia!

Every viernes we answer cultural trivia questions at the beginning of class to see how much we know. Here are a couple of today's trivia questions:
  • What is the name of the road that connected the Spanish missions in Mexico?
  • What is the name of the famous art museum in Madrid?
  • What is a charro?

Do you know the respuesta? Check back next week to learn the answers!

Monday, September 17, 2007

8th

  • prueba/examen: jueves el 20 de septiembre

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

el 16 de septiembre


On domingo, México celebrates its día de la independencia.
Visit these links for some history on Mexico's fight for independence from Spain. http://www.inside-mexico.com/featureindep.htm
http://www.mexonline.com/mexican-independence.htm

¡Viva México!

Thursday, September 6, 2007

8th

¡Tanto repaso! We've been reviewing concepts from last year-the students have great memorias! We've reviewed expressing origin with the formula ser+de+place, the difference between familiar and formal greetings and expressing activities that we like (or don't like) to do.
  • Our prueba/examen will be next martes el 11 de septiembre. ¡Hagan repaso por favor!

7th

We are about to finish our etapa (chapter) preliminar in our books. We have learned how to greet people at different times of the day (Buenos días), how to tell someone where we are from (Soy de...) and we are learning numbers 0-10 and the days of the week-have you heard the days of the week song?
  • Our test will be next Wednesday September 12. ¡Estudien por favor!

Monday, September 3, 2007

¡Lo hicimos!

¡Hola a todos! We made it through our first week of school! Last week we spent some time getting to know each other and picking Spanish names. As we dive into our libros this week, Señorita Payne will be trying to memorize everybody's Spanish names-Pablo, Mercedes, Felipe, Raúl, Julio, Julia, Enrique...¡ay ay ay!