I am so excited to finally share with you the video that is the culmination of the grade 3 project on weather. The students have worked so hard on this project since around December. In pairs, they researched the weather and climate in a Spanish-speaking country and used that knowledge to create a fake weather forecast for an assigned date. They drew the forecast and researched a picture of a place in their country, both of which show up behind them in their clip. Then they presented their forecast aloud to the whole class and on video. Over half of the students completely memorized their lines... meaning no cue cards! I am proud of their work and excited that I was able to learn how to use the green screen, transitions, backgrounds, and audio in imovie to make the finished product look great! I look forward to showing the students in class this week. Take a look at the video below (it is 10 minutes, so make sure you have some time!). With every third grader participating, we touched upon weather in all 21 of the Spanish-speaking countries. I hope to do the project with Ashaway next year as well. Enjoy!
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Mrs. Abbott's students in kindergarten all made Chatterpix videos to go along with their Picasso pictures. Unfortunately, there was an issue with the app on the ipad that I used and the videos can't be shared to anywhere else. They are stuck on the ipad! So I recorded two of the videos from my phone as I watched them and shared them to my google account. I wish I could have done them all, but that would fill way too much space on my phone, and I'm lacking in space already! Here are the links to the videos...
Elyse Aditya Have a good weekend! Kindergarten and grade 1 have been working on their Spanish vocabulary as we also learn about hispanic art. As I mentioned in my last post, Kindergarten used their knowledge of body part vocabulary to make faces in the style of cubism. Mrs Abbott's class also made videos to go along with their pictures, but they are currently stuck in the abyss of one particular ipad that I can't figure out how to share it from! However, here is a picture of the bulletin board at Hope Valley with the Picasso faces.
Mrs, Haberek's first grade class learned about how Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist (married to another great artist, Diego Rivera) who was known for her self portraits and unfortunate unibrow. They then drew portraits of Frida Kahlo with different facial expressions based on feelings that they have learned. They are ADORABLE! Thanks to her unibrow, most pictures look a little angry, but that just adds to the funniness of it. Check out the pictures below. La Persistencia de la MemoriaGrade 2 students started learning to tell time in Spanish in December. In doing so, we talked about the painting "La Persistencia de la Memoria" - The Persistence of Memory - by Salvador Dalí. One of the elements this painting is known for is the melting clocks that are in it. We talked about how the clocks can mean that time is getting away from us or that time doesn't matter in dreams. There is another figure in the painting that is hard to decipher. Some students said they saw a dead horse, others saw a face, others saw a sheet draped over something. The truth is that there is no one right answer. The bland object in the painting can represent a lot of things. It can go along with the possible theme of dreaming in that you can't fully tell what it is, similar to objects or people in dreams. There are also ants and a fly in the painting which symbolize decay and death. This is such a well know painting that it has been replicated by The Simpsons, Spongebob, the Cookie Monster, and even Google!
Students at both schools created their own melting clocks in art class. I hope that next year we can do more with those clocks, but for this year a photo of the finished product will have to do. Below is a picture of the clocks hanging in Mrs. DiFranco's art room at Hope Valley. Below that is the original painting. |
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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