Curriculum

At Henry W. Moore School, I am developing an exploratory program of Spanish for students from Kindergarten to Fourth Grade. At this moment, in 2019, in our first year of instruction and of the development of curriculum, students from Kindergarten to Second Grade are instructed the same material. As students progress and move to a higher level, I will be developing the curriculum for the next grade.

Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade

• Greetings of Buenos días, Buenas tardes and Buenas noches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdDu8pFbnRc.
• The ABC in Spanish: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lamrMou0nnc.
• The colors in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNFXntWOJw.
• The numbers in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbaaI4BMa60.
• The names of animals in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuDAiR7GB4.
• The names of the family members: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0dzzJDUKY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0msYQYzbs.
• The names of foods and meals.
• Thanksgiving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQy0YB1g2iE.

The same applies to Third Graders and Fourth Graders during this first academic year.

Third Grade and Fourth Grade

• The phonemes in Spanish.
• The ABC in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3xvPyBzmw.
• Asking about the name of a person in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1euD8y-5mx0.
• Greetings and personal questions in interpersonal exchange in Spanish.
• The numbers from 1 to 20 in Spanish.
• The building of a family tree in Spanish.
• The development of a menu in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_aWb2C4n6o.

The same applies to Fifth Graders and Sixth Graders.

Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade

We will be using Estella Gahala et al.'s !Avancemos! 1, a textbook that is used at most of the high schools in New Hampshire for Spanish 1. My goal is to cover with my Fifth Graders (and this year also with my Sixth Graders) the preliminary unit over the quarter of instruction, studying the following materials.

• Greetings of the day in Spanish.
• Basic interpersonal conversation in Spanish.
• Introductions in Spanish.
• The spelling of words in Spanish.
• The countries, the nationalities and the flags of every Spanish-speaking country in the world, including South America, Central America, North America, Africa, Europe and Asia.
• The numbers from 0 to 31 in Spanish.
• The days of the week, the months and the seasons of the year in Spanish.
• The weather conditions in Spanish.
• Some useful expressions to follow instructions in the Spanish class.

During the academic year 2019/2020, Seventh and Eighth Graders will start from zero, but my goal is that we finish at least the preliminary unit and two more double units, with two lessons each, a total of five lessons. This way, when my Seventh Graders move to Eighth Grade, we will start in Unit 3.1 and we will try to finish at least Unit 5.1. That would cover the conjugation of all the verbs, both regular and irregular, in the present simple of indicative, which would allow them to enter high school at the level of Spanish 2. Those students in Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade will make it to Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade at a higher level so we will be able to reach a higher level in future years. We will also be using the workbook associated with the textbook in order to master the grammatical structures and practice the different semantic fields/vocabulary on a regular basis.

Let's get to work.

Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade (in construction until 2023)