Friday, September 27, 2013

Upcoming Quizzes

7th grade
Monday, October 7: Quiz on the activities on your vocab list

8th grade
Tuesday, October 1: Tener, Time, Classes, School Supplies, Places in School

Friday, September 20, 2013

Week in Review/Resumen de la semana

What a busy week!  Next week will be busy too with an Early Dismissal on Friday.

7th Grade
  The 7th graders took geography quizzes on the Spanish-speaking countries of Central and South America.  Now they are busy preparing for their first chapter test.  The test will be on Wednesday, September 25.  They have a study guide to use over the weekend so they know what vocabulary to review. On Monday we'll do a practice test that they should use to study.  

8th Grade
  We continue with our review of last year's concepts.  We're currently in the middle of the 2nd part of our 4 part review.  I've been really impressed with the studying that some of the 8th graders have been doing. I've seen some awesome quiz grades this week.  

Thursday, September 12, 2013

7th Grade Geography

This week the 7th graders created notes with maps identifying the location and capitals of the Spanish speaking  countries of Central America, the Caribbean and South America.  They've done a great job starting to identify (without their notes) the locations of these countries that speak the language we're learning.  They will have quizzes next week in which they need to identify the location of the countries and match them with their capitals. Spelling counts for the names of the countries, but not for the capitals. We broke up the quizzes so that we don't have too many names floating around in our heads.

Quiz Tuesday(9/17): Central America & the Caribbean
 Quiz Friday(9/20): South America


Friday, September 6, 2013

7th Grade

We had a great week in 7th grade Spanish!  Some of the students chose a Spanish name to have in class. We learned how to greet others and how to ask and tell names.   We did a few speaking activities in class to help the students start to feel comfortable in conversational situations.
     You guys worked hard this week-have a great weekend!

8th Grade

Happy Friday! This week we began reviewing material that we learned last year.  We'll do a brief review of vocabulary and grammar concepts before moving on to our new material.  Next Thursday the 8th graders will have their first quiz.  The following will be assessed:

  • Vocabulary: activities, physical descriptions, personality descriptions
  • Subject Pronouns & Ser
  • Gustar with Infinitives