One of our beginning of the year activities in Spanish class was to read one of Señora's favorite books, called Your Fantastic Elastic Brain. This book is all about how our brains work, and how we can stretch and strengthen them by learning new things. It teaches us how our brains grow and how making mistakes is good because it helps train our brains and help them grow. After reading the book, we made connections to our learning in Spanish class and how we will be stretching our brains this year. We also talked about how we can use what we learned about our brains to help think positively as language learners. We looked at negative thoughts that we might have while learning something new and talked about what kinds of positive statements we could replace them with. Here are some examples:
These statements are hanging in our classroom so that we can remember them as we stretch our brains and learn Spanish together. It's going to be a great year!!
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It has been a great start to the year in Spanish class and we have been busy warming up our brains and getting back into 'Spanish mode'!
First, we answered some questions in Spanish about our Summer adventures. The kids and I enjoyed learning about who did what this Summer, like traveling on an airplane, going to the beach, or riding a bike. We also did a fun activity to practice the question ¿Cómo se dice?. This is the question you would use to find out how to say a word in Spanish, and I want students to feel comfortable answering and asking this question throughout the year. First, students did a group activity where they picked cards with English words and asked each other how to say the words in Spanish. Some of the words were ones we have learned in the past, but some were random words like 'peanuts' and 'balloon'. We also learned the expression No sé so they could respond when they were asked a word they didn't know! At the end, we did an activity where the students tried to 'Stump Señora' by coming up with words to ask me. I did pretty well, but they definitely stumped me a few times! We also did our first communicative activity of the year where students walked around the room and asked each other questions in Spanish about what they have. Some examples are ¿Tienes un gato? (Do you have a cat?) or ¿Tienes una guitarra? (Do you have a guitar?). They really enjoyed talking to each other and did an awesome job asking and answering the questions in Spanish! Next week we will do some more vocabulary practice before we start our first unit. I am looking forward to a great year! |
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