Third and Fourth grade recently created posters during art and Spanish for a contest with the theme Languages are the Key to Global Understanding. This was a statewide contest for all elementary students that are taking a foreign language. For the second year, a student at Hope Valley has won! Congratulations to Skye Wilding in Mrs. St. Clair's 4th grade class! She is invited to attend a dinner where she will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $50! Below is her winning poster. Grade 2 has been learning about clothing in class. We created outfits for each season and cut and pasted them on a worksheet below. In grade 2 at Ashaway, we have been practicing our handwriting and poetry. In the example below, the poem is about a person seeing a purple cow and realizing that it is only a dream. The illustration does a great job of depicting the theme of the poem. Grade 1 has been working on family vocabulary and are currently presenting pictures that they drew of their family to the class. They are describing their family members in Spanish! Kindergarten is working on saying classroom objects in Spanish. We can say pencil, eraser, crayons, scissors, paper, book, glue stick, and backpack. We are starting to create our very own book about the items in the backpack! Students will be able to read their book aloud. Grades 3 and 4 are finishing up their unit on animals. We have been doing a lot of storytelling through a method of language learning called TPRS - teaching proficiency through reading and storytelling (that's a mouthful!). Students have enjoyed listening to the story and learning vocabulary and grammatical structures in the process. I hope everyone has a wonderful vacation!
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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
November 2017
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