The further into the year we get, the less frequently I remember to post! But to finish out the year, feel free to check out my photo album of various activities that students in each class completed throughout the year. These albums are only accessible to people who have the link; they are not poster on the internet.
Hope Valley photos Ashaway Photos Richmond photos (2W) Hope Valley students will all have me for Spanish again next year. Ashaway students in grades K-2 and Mrs. Ornburn's 4th grade should have me next year, but that can always change from year to year. Sra. Giuliano teaches the other classes. I will also most likely be in Mrs Webster's class again next year at Richmond. Have a wonderful summer and I will see you all in the fall! Good luck in the middle school soon-to-be 5th graders! Con amor, Sra. Carpenter
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My grade 3 students at Hope Valley have been working hard all year to make this weather forecast video. We started by learning about weather and climate in Hispanic countries and comparing it to our weather. We learned about Fahrenheit and Celcius as well. In pairs, students were given a specific Spanish-speaking country to research. They made a fictional, but plausible, forecast for a certain date in their country. They drew their forecast and also chose a background photo of a landmark in their country. The final product of all this hard work is really amazing. Check it out at the link here!
Congratulations to the 5 Ashaway finalists for the World Language Poster Contest! These 5 posters will be submitted to the state-wide contest. The theme of the contest was "Languages: A Bridge to Global Citizenship". Students worked on the posters in Spanish and Art class. Good luck to the finalists in the state-wide competition! Congratulations to the 5 Hope Valley finalists for the World Language Poster Contest! These 5 posters will be submitted to the state-wide contest. Ashaway winners will be announced this week. The theme of the contest was "Languages: A Bridge to Global Citizenship". Students worked on the posters in Spanish and Art class. Good luck to the finalists in the state-wide competition! You may know that Chariho started offering Chinese as a class in middle school and high school this year. The Chinese teacher, Wang Ling, has come to all of the elementary schools to let our young students experience Chinese as well. So far, she has taught a lesson in my second grade classes at Ashaway and Hope Valley, and to Mr. Fanning's and Mrs. Ricci's class. Hopefully, all classes will get to learn a little Chinese by the end of the year! Some classes did a lesson on how to say hello, my name is, what is your name, and goodbye. Other classes learned about the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival. They learned that 2019 is the year of the pig. Then they got to color their own pig. Take a look at the pictures below and the video that classes watched to learn the greetings. Second grade students are in the process of completing a project on the painting The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí. They learned about the painting in Spanish and art class. They learned that the melting clocks represent time fading away and the way memories become fuzzy. It also can represent how time moves in dreams. Students also learned that the ants on the pocket watch represent decay. In Spanish class, they are learning how to tell time on the hour and half hour in Spanish (they are also learning to tell time in English!). In art class, they made their own melting clocks. Then, during Spanish morning meeting (tertulia), we filmed ourselves saying the different times on our clocks.
Hope Valley has finished their video and it came out great! Here is their video. Thanks to Mrs. DiFranco, Mrs. Mello, and Miss D'Agostino for working with me on this project! I will post Ashaway's and Mrs. Webster's videos soon. This is the original painting by Dalí: Three King's Day was on January 6th and Hope Valley's third graders celebrated by making shoes to leave in hopes of getting gifts from the three wise men. In Spain, children leave their shoes by the door and the three wise men leave them small gifts in the shoes (like our stockings) and bigger gifts nearby. We were very lucky that the three kings did stop by and bring us a little something! Above is a picture of the shoes in Mr. Fanning's room and a note that the three kings left us. It says "Happy 3 kings day. There are little presents in your shoes. Love Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar."
Second grade classes did some Spanish Christmas caroling before vacation and they were amazing! Check out the videos of each class below. There might also be other versions of the videos on the principal's weekly update or classroom teacher updates, so be on the lookout!
2D caroling 2M caroling 2P caroling 2G caroling (Mrs. Gray has not sent me the video yet) As we prepare for our school vacation, consider following the Spanish tradition of eating 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. In Spain, they eat one grape for every stroke on the clock leading up to midnight. For each grape, they make a wish for the new year. It is supposed to bring good luck! Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and happy New Year! ¡Feliz navidad, felices fiestas, y feliz año nuevo! Students have been working on tons of new Spanish topics an activities since my last post! Currently, we are in full-on holiday mode. Next week, second grade classes will be singing Spanish Christmas carols around the school. We have been practicing since Thanksgiving! Ashaway classes are caroling on Wednesday the 19th, Hope Valley classes are caroling on Thursday the 20th, and Mrs. Webster's class at Richmond is caroling on Friday the 21st. Students are welcome to wear festive attire (holiday colors, reindeer antlers, santa hats, etc) but not actual costumes. And, although parents are not invited to attend our caroling sessions, I will record the students singing for parents to view. Second grade students also just finished writing their weather and seasons books. We have read them together as a class and some students have read their book individually to the whole class. Below are some pictures of students reading. I am hoping to upload videos of students reading so that you can hear how amazing they sound. Fourth grade students have now read the first 2 chapters of El Capibara con Botas. It is incredible how much they understand and it's clear that they enjoy reading it. I'm so impressed! For the holidays, we will be watching a movie called Los 9 Perritos de la Navidad - Nine Dog Christmas. This movie is completely in Spanish, but the students will be able to understand everything that is going on... so cool! Kindergartners have just begun to learn body parts. We will soon be able to name tons of body parts and be able to sing head, shoulders, knees, and toes. We have also been practicing colors, numbers, and greetings. First grade students have been traveling around the world with their classroom teachers, and one of their stops was Mexico. They learned about Las Posadas, where people in Mexico celebrate by going house to house like Mary and Joseph. No one let's them in until the last house, which is where the party will be. The three kings are also an important part of hispanic holidays because they are the ones who leave the most presents on January 6th (Three King's Day). We also learned that the poinsettia plant originated in Mexico. Tomie dePaola has a great story about the legend of the poinsettia. Here is is being read aloud. Third grade students have spent a lot of time on the topic of Animals this year. We are now moving on to math... not quite as interesting but still fun! After vacation, we will be talking about Three King's Day and students will get a chance to make paper shoes to leave out at school for the Three King's. More on that later! I hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving and the mini vacation surrounding it! Take a look at some of the Thanksgiving activities that students have done in Spanish classes. Grades 1 and 3 made different variations of turkeys, and wrote what they are thankful for. Grade 2 played a game where they rolled a dice and the number they rolled determined the color of the feather that they drew. Grade 3 made mandalas that say what they are thankful for (I don't have any pictures of them). Classes that meet on Monday or Tuesday will make theirs next week.
Many students are thankful for amigos - friends, familia - family, ropa - clothes, alimento/comida - food, la vida- life, mascotas - pets, Dios - God, la escuela - school, la naturaleza - nature, and much more! Happy Thanksgiving! |
La Autora¡Hola! My name is Dori Carpenter. I teach K-4 Spanish at Hope Valley and Ashaway Elementary Schools in the Chariho Regional School District. I began teaching high school Spanish in 2010 and have been teaching at the elementary level in Chariho since 2014. I studied Spanish and Secondary Education at Providence College and The University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. Archives
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