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!
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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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