Textbook Website

This week the students received their log in information for the the website that accompanies the textbook. They played around with looking at certain book pages and saw that the website has flashcards for vocabulary review and fill-in-the-blank activities to help them practice what we've learned in class. It also has some games that the students can play for review.  This is something the students can use throughout the year.

Holt McDougal Online

Students: You need to keep your username and password all year. Put it somewhere safe!

Tiras Cómicas

The 8th graders made comic strips depicting different activities that they have to do during the day at school.  They shared them with their classmates on Tuesday. There were a lot of really great comic strips-here are a few of them.

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

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.  

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

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