April 19, 2011
The first half of this week we continued working studying saber/conocer and information about Cuzco. We played jeopardy to review this information. The students were given a paper to fill out before coming to class about Cuzco so that they could use that to answer questions during the game. I was disappointed in the number of students how actually had completed their homework and was prepared for class.
April 21, 2011
Because of Good Friday, we had a short week. Thursday we did a few different types of activities to continue working with indirect object pronouns. I think the students are getting the hang of these and did really well with the activities. We also practiced the newly mandated earthquake drill today. The students did well with this, we had already talked about it and practiced it earlier in the week.
Behind the scenes, I have been helping grade the semester two projects. The students did pretty well with creating their projects, despite some technology issues that were out of our control.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Week 14
April 12, 2011
The first half of the week we spent one day in the computer lab to allow students more time to continue working on their semester two projects. The second day we were back in the classroom and we continued worked with saber/conocer and learning more about Cuzco. The students are doing well with saber and conocer and we will be quizzing on it early next week. I am happy with their progress.
April 15, 2011
The second half of the week we spent some more time working with saber/conocer and then we began working with indirect object pronouns. IOPs can be challenging but I was pleasantly surprised with how quickly the students seemed to be picking up just after working with them for thirty minutes. We also spent Friday back in the computer lab to work on projects. For the most part, the students used their time wisely in the lab and worked hard on their projects.
The first half of the week we spent one day in the computer lab to allow students more time to continue working on their semester two projects. The second day we were back in the classroom and we continued worked with saber/conocer and learning more about Cuzco. The students are doing well with saber and conocer and we will be quizzing on it early next week. I am happy with their progress.
April 15, 2011
The second half of the week we spent some more time working with saber/conocer and then we began working with indirect object pronouns. IOPs can be challenging but I was pleasantly surprised with how quickly the students seemed to be picking up just after working with them for thirty minutes. We also spent Friday back in the computer lab to work on projects. For the most part, the students used their time wisely in the lab and worked hard on their projects.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Week 13
April 1-April 10
Spring break!! I have spent a lot of time this week finalizing my LAMP unit (77 pages). I am now working on my portfolio and a few ESL essays. Only a few more assignments left. The end (of college) is near!! Bittersweet!
Spring break!! I have spent a lot of time this week finalizing my LAMP unit (77 pages). I am now working on my portfolio and a few ESL essays. Only a few more assignments left. The end (of college) is near!! Bittersweet!
Week 12
March 29, 2011
The first half of the week we continued learning new material and covering material from last week. We are working on circumlocution and learning to how describe something when we don’t know the word. We do this a bunch on English if we can’t think of a word, we talk in circles to describe it. This was challenging at first for some students. I think after multiple examples, most everyone was getting the hang of it..
The students are doing well and accepting me as their teacher. The time is flying by and I can’t believe it is almost spring break. We are all kind of trying to “survive” this week and I am anxious for the break and time to put together all of my information from my LAMP unit I am finishing up.
March 31, 2011
Today was our last day of the week (we all got Friday off). I still had students leave on vacation even earlier than Friday. Today was also block day aka busy day! We spent the first part of class working on material from earlier this week. The second half of class we spent time playing review games.
The students did well with the review games. The first one was a triangle word puzzle and it was very difficult. I designed it and used information we learned during my LAMP unit. The students worked in their pods to complete it. Later, we played a version of the casino game Craps practicing the preterit. This was pretty fun and some of the students got really competitive with it!
For the last few minutes of class we did something different ☺ The current YouTube hit is a song called “Friday” by Rebecca Black. There are MANY parodies of this song. First, I showed the students the English version; most students had already seen it. Then I showed them the Spanish version created by Zachary Jones, a Spanish teacher. (http://www.zachary-jones.com) Each student received a copy of the Spanish lyrics and were encouraged to sing along ;) It was a fun way to end class before spring break.
The first half of the week we continued learning new material and covering material from last week. We are working on circumlocution and learning to how describe something when we don’t know the word. We do this a bunch on English if we can’t think of a word, we talk in circles to describe it. This was challenging at first for some students. I think after multiple examples, most everyone was getting the hang of it..
The students are doing well and accepting me as their teacher. The time is flying by and I can’t believe it is almost spring break. We are all kind of trying to “survive” this week and I am anxious for the break and time to put together all of my information from my LAMP unit I am finishing up.
March 31, 2011
Today was our last day of the week (we all got Friday off). I still had students leave on vacation even earlier than Friday. Today was also block day aka busy day! We spent the first part of class working on material from earlier this week. The second half of class we spent time playing review games.
The students did well with the review games. The first one was a triangle word puzzle and it was very difficult. I designed it and used information we learned during my LAMP unit. The students worked in their pods to complete it. Later, we played a version of the casino game Craps practicing the preterit. This was pretty fun and some of the students got really competitive with it!
For the last few minutes of class we did something different ☺ The current YouTube hit is a song called “Friday” by Rebecca Black. There are MANY parodies of this song. First, I showed the students the English version; most students had already seen it. Then I showed them the Spanish version created by Zachary Jones, a Spanish teacher. (http://www.zachary-jones.com) Each student received a copy of the Spanish lyrics and were encouraged to sing along ;) It was a fun way to end class before spring break.
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