During this first week of Hybrid Learning for 3rd grade Spanish students, we continued our food unit by adding GRANOS, PROTEÍNAS and LÁCTEOS. After these lessons, students will be prepared to begin their restaurant project! Each student will create a menu for an imaginary restaurant, and we'll use students' work for in-class restaurant role plays.

At the beginning of each Spanish class, we complete a few daily routines. We say the date, give a weather report, and talk about how we're feeling. You can use this Google Slides presentation (embedded as a PDF document) to practice at home!

¿Quién es tu maestra de lectura? ¿Quién es tu maestra de matemáticas? ¿Educación física? ¿Música? ¿Arte? This week we'll practice speaking and writing in complete sentences to tell who teaches our classes.

We'll also use several descriptive adjectives to talk about our academic classes: interesante (interesting), difícil (difficult), fácil (easy), divertido (fun), importante (important) and aburrido (boring).

We're beginning a new unit covering academic classes, school supplies, and other classroom vocabulary! Third grade students learned some of these words last year, so we'll be adding onto what they already know. We'll name our classes, our teachers, and what supplies we need for each class, plus we'll use our Q1 grammar structures to help us say which classes are our favorites and why.

¡Gracias! I am so thankful for my wonderful students, their supportive families, and all of the excellent teachers and staff at Pulaski school. I hope you and your family have a safe, happy Thanksgiving holiday.

This week we'll continue talking about what we wear for each kind of weather. We'll also continue using color vocabulary to describe what we're wearing and what a few famous friends are wearing...like Bob Esponja!

¿Qué ropa llevas puesta hoy? What are you wearing today? This week we will practice clothing vocabulary and talk about how we decide what to wear based on the weather. We'll also review the Spanish colors and use "me gusta" to talk about our ropa favorita - favorite clothes.

This week we will review our learning objectives for Q1 and self-assess to see if we can do everything in our Q1 "I can" statements! Click this link to watch a 20-minute review video of Q1 learning objectives for PYP Spanish students. I included a few exemplary work samples from 2nd and 3rd grade students at the end - Pulaski students are so impressive! You can also download the objectives presentation here.

We haven't gotten to every objective on the list yet, but we will soon!

Día de Muertos is celebrated the 1st and 2nd of November in Mexico, some other Spanish-speaking countries and across the United States. This week, we will spend one or two lessons learning about Día de Muertos, reading picture books about the holiday, and completing fun cultural activities. Here are a few of the students' favorite Día de Muertos videos:

Visit this virtual altar and click on the linked objects to learn more about Día de Muertos and these three famous people who passed away in 2020 - we will remember them for their positive contributions to society! FYI, You have to open the document in a separate tab for the links to work.

¿Qué te hace sentir...? What makes you feel...? We will explore the different people, places, and things that make us feel feliz (happy), triste (sad), enojado (mad), nervioso (nervous), calmado (calm), and more.

¿Cómo estás? Third graders will review basic feelings vocabulary learned in years past, plus we'll add new words for slightly more complex emotions. We'll practice empathy, reading hypothetical situations and considering how the people involved might feel.

¡Favoritos! Last week we started talking about our favorite things in Spanish. This week we'll continue practicing: ¿Cuál es tu _____ favorito? Mi ______ favorito es _______. Students will share their favoritos with the class using Flipgrid to record a video.

This week we are reviewing five questions and answers: ¿Cómo te llamas? (What's your name), ¿Cómo estás? (How are you?), ¿Cuántos años tienes? (How old are you?), ¿De dónde eres? (Where are you from?) and ¿Dónde vives? (Where do you live?). Students will complete reading, writing, listening and speaking activities to practice asking and answering these questions. We will use the website Flipgrid to record short puppet show conversations, too! Log into Google Classroom to find the Flipgrid assignment code - you can view other students' puppet shows there, too!

Below I've embedded the Google Slides presentation I'm using during synchronous lessons with my Third Grade classes during the week of September 8. Please note our Essential Agreements on Slide 6. There is no homework this week, but there is an optional activity on Slide 23, if you're up for it!