Welcome to the Spanish Classroom
Bienvenidos al salon de español !
Hola! Mi nombre es Dr. Driscoll. Tengo el placer de enseñar español este ano.
In this year’s the Spanish classes we focus on the following areas:
1.) Increasing Spanish vocabulary.
2.) Conversational Spanish. Students apply what they learn about nouns, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, adjectives, preposition, etc.
in play-acting situations such as going shopping, eating in a restaurant, at the playground, in the doctor’s office, etc.
3.) Developing their listening skills in a classroom language audio lab
4.) Using a form of “immersion” with an interactive audio-visual
program
5.) Gaining a deeper understanding of the cultures and traditions of
the Spanish Speaking World (El Mundo Hispanohablante) through songs, dance, and stories.
6.) Using the Spanish language beyond the classroom. The
4th,5th,6th; 7th, and 8th graders are preparing for a make-believe
trip to Madrid, Spain to attend a “Dia del Mercado”.
With the assistance of parents who are native speakers of
the Spanish language acting as vendors, the students will
practice their listening and speaking skills in a fun and
meaningful experience.
7.) Listening to short stories in Spanish: “El Patito Feo”;
“Mi Sombrero”; “Los tres Cerditos”…..etc.
8.) Singing songs: “De Colores”; “La araña pequeñita”…etc.
January 2012
Cuarto Grado:
Currently in 4th grade we are using colors, geometric shapes, animals
to answer the question:
¿De que color es el cuadrado?
¿De que color es el perro?
The students answer:
El cuadrado es rojo.
El perro es marron.
Next week the 4th graders will use adjectives to describe things, people, plants,
and animals.
They will use sentences like:
¿Como es el oso?
El oso es grande.,
Quinto Grado:
The 5th graders have learned the parts of the body as well as the face and are currently
using them to say which body parts hurts.
They use the sentences…
Me duele la cabeza. ( My head hurts.)
¿Te duelen los dedos? (Do your fingers hurt?)
Le duele el estomago. (His/her stomach hurts.)
Next week they will talk about the clothes they wear.
Sexto, septimo y octavo grado:
The Middle school is using the verb forms for present, past, and future tense with the
pronouns “yo” and “el, ella, usted”.
Next week they will be working on talking about what they are doing (ing form of the verb)
using gerunds.