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Welcome to The World Language Program at Inlet View

Spanish classes are held weekly (link to full schedule)

Office Hours, via Zoom, or in person, please contact to schedule visit
Monday Noon-12:30
Please email with any questions, suggestions or concerns at any time.
I do my best to reply within 1 business day (my work days are Mon-Thurs).

This site is divided into pages that have material specific for grade levels and one that has recetas, or recipes for you to try out.

Our Jobs

These are our jobs in Spanish class. I want students to know what to expect of me and what I expect of them. Learning a language in a classroom is like a team sport, we all have our roles and we share one mutual goal: language acquisition for all! Little by little we will get there.

The comprehensible teacher

I commit to being as easy to understand as possible and to continue to strive for the ACTFL (American Council for Teaching of Foreign Languages) standard of being in the target language 80-90% of the class period.

The attentive student

Students who pay close attention and listen with their whole body- watching the teacher and repeating supporting body language is essential- will retain more information more quickly than students who listen only with their ears.

Below you'll find updates on community programs, volunteer opportunities, and more! Above in the top right are options for navigating to specific grade level pages for information related to your kids specific classes. If you have questions, suggestions, or want to help support the World Language website please contact me.

Kindies Love Singing

We used an easy reader with some very silly twists and turns on a traditional song about chickens to help learn the meaning of the song "Los polliots dicen" then we learned the words to the traditional song, sang many times together and continued to play with the vocabulary of the song pairing up word/picture cards, ordering the story line illustrations, and acting out the song together. We love singing!

Cross Grade Collaborations Are So Fun!

5th Grader Prepare Paletas

After reading our bilingual story Paletera Man our 5th graders made traditional flavored Mexican style ice cream pops to enjoy and to share with our primary students. Each table group made a unique flavor from the familiar mango to the newly tasted chirimoya (one of my favorite fruits).

Delivered and Enjoyed

5th graders created their own verison of the Paletera Man's paletas truck to travel the neighborhood offering popsicles to kids. They met our primary students in the library and delivered them popsicles before watching the author sing and read his book. ¡Muchas gracias!

Nuestra Huella

This exhibit was on display at the Anchorage Museum and our fourth grade class participated in a docent led tour of the exhibit from the curator Itzel Zagar, if you have knowledge of other culturally enriching opportunities in the community please let me know. Thank you!

Check out some overarching themes and concepts that we are exploring here inthe World Language Program at Inlet View. Below are school wide concepts and above there are links to grade level groupings to find more specific concepts that your individual student might be investigating with me in Spanish class.

Perú y Alaska

Students worked at their grade levels to learn about products and practices from Perú and connect and compare them to counterparts in Alaska. Ask your student to describe the iconic Peruvian dog, or how they preserve food for long storage. SY 24-25

Pairing vocabulary cards

This practice supports what we call 'binding' where a person connects the word to its meaning directly not to another language which is connected to the meaning. This allows students to build the Spanish language in their minds more effectively.

Working to make meaning

These vocabulary cards also allow us to build a story comparing the two places, two dogs, set them into their place in the world and have visual supports of the terms I am using while guiding the comparison comprehension activity completely in Spanish.

¡Doy gracias!

Reflecting on our lives and our worlds through gratitude is a beautiful practice that out Inlet View students did with curiosity and determination in our World Language program. I continue to be impressed with their open-mindedness and courage to boldly express themselves in new ways in a new language. Review these phrases and consider incorporating them into your end of day reflections as a family.

2nd grade gratitude reading

Our impressive second graders worked hard on creating messages about gratitude in Spanish last quarter. After reading, playing and writing with the vocabulary students then shared their work with partners. The focus and encouragement was heart warming!

Reading our writing to others

Students used sentence starters to create comprehensible messages about their lives and the things they are grateful for. Each student shared at least once with a peer reading their writing and sharing their supportive drawings. It was a beautiful experience.

Día de muertos

Anchorage has a community celebration each year to honor our ancestors.

Check back for information on the 2025 event.

These events are generally free and open to the public, if you would like to support Inlet View particpating please let me know.

Proficiency Progress

Proficiency is not perfection.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, ACTFL, proficiency guidelines and can-do statements help drive my curriculum development. Making progress in our proficiency via the four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing is my year long goal for all students. This slide show reviews examples of can-do statements for students emerging proficiency and shows them samples of growth.

Comprehensible Input

In 2022 I began integrating a new strategy into my teaching called Comprehensible Input, abbreviated as CI. The video here shares some basic overview of what this concept looks like across all curriculum. In a Spanish classroom the goal is to use repeated content, translations, images, and lots of gesturing! Using this technique does require students to be listening with their whole bodies, watching my body language, my visuals, as well as the language I am producing verbally. The input I create with CI allows language acquisition to occur as we collaborate in communication.

Want to donate to the class?

We have had projects successfully funded through Donors Choose in the past and if I create a new one I'll include the information here, in the school newsletter and talk about it with students. This school year the best way to donate to the class is with your time. Many activities are enriched by others help, don't worry if you are still an emerging Spanish speaker- you will do great! Also if you have connections to Spanish speakers in the community please feel free to send them my email (bundtzen_meghan@asdk12.org) so we can collaborate! Cooking projects are back this year and collaboration is the key. These projects are always more fun with community. Can you help both or either of those days? If you would like to volunteer please complete the ASD volunteer application and waiver.

Calma

Nuestro Rincón De Paz

This image is of our peace corner, or rincón de paz. We are very lucky to have the support of the wider community who have donated the features of this space.

Do you have images you use at home to practice calm or la calma? Do you have deep breathing techniques that you practice that we could utilize here? The photo album in the image above is only partially full of images that remind students of the calming techniques we have learned together in Spanish class. I would love to add more from your home too!

Learn a bit more about Señora...

This summer I balanced visiting family, backpacking, and high quality learning. My parents live outside of New York City and my sons and I went for a ten day trip which allowed us to have great family time and NYC adventures including attending an original play at El Repertorio Spanish language theather and the new Broadway musical, Buena Vista Social Club. Below are some pictures and more details about my summer of 2025.

Lost Lake July 2025

This summer a dear friend of mine turned 70 and we celebrated with an overnight backpacking trip to Lost Lake. We saw dozens of wildflowers, some well fed marmots, and playful ravens. If you have not been before it is absolutely worth the 15 mile traverse.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

This July my family and I attended the talk Cosmic Perspective by Neil deGrasse Tyson. It was humbling and motivating at the same time. He said deep ideas on how we are so concretely interconnected. Also one my favorite laugh out loud moments was his quote, Nature is trying to kill you!

GTI: Good Teacher Institute July 2025

This summer I presented on the concept of lowering the Affective Filter in world language classes. We had excellent conversations and collaborations on what we do, what we are learning about, and what we commit to try this school year.

The summer of 2024 I participated in a Fulbright-Hays Group Trip Abroad in Peru, it was amazing! I built my 2024-2025 curriculum around my experience and I loved sharing it with your child(ren). Here are few pictures of the glorious learning experience I had and integrated into the Spanish program SY24-25.

Patabamba

We attended textile workshops in Chinchero at a weaving cooperative and were invited to one of their rural sites to learn new craft techniques and connect with the weavers.

Pisac

We traveled to many Incan structures from religious sites to food storage to large community spaces like Machu Picchu.

Paucartambo

We attended a unique festival in a small town outside of Cusco to witness Religious Syncretism between indigenous cultures and Catholicism.

In July of 2023 I went to Texas for IB training, it was excellent!

Multilingual IB Educator Fun

Teachers are often a special breed of people who truly love learning. We warmed up with connections between our language studies and the PYP Learning Profile Attributes

IB Teachers Unite

These joyful people came from New York, Chicago, Texas and yes there was me from Alaska! If we are lucky you might get to meet some of these dedicated educators next summer. They loved all my moose and snow stories.

We are all communicators

Tying IB cycle of inquiry, key concepts and other language into a world language class felt daunting for many but when working on this together the way through was clear.

Un poquito sobre los verano pasados -
A little about my summers past

This is me walking home from a surprise birthday party for a dear friend who turned 70 this year! It's also a close look at my new hair cut, so short right?

My family and I went on several joyful backpacking trips this summer. The boys are getting stronger and gaining more confidence each trip, it is such a cool thing to do together! We went to Red Shirt Lake & to Crescent Lake this year, what about you?

This is a group of teachers from the US and from Costa Rica during a week long immersion workshop I participated in this summer. It was fabulous!

Our oldest son also learned to kayak on his own this summer which was a huge accomplishment not just with the skills but the trust in himself to be in a boat alone. My husband and I got more comfortable with canoes this summer too!

I am looking forward to making new Spanish memories together this year!

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