Semana 1

Lunes 1/4

NO SCHOOL

Martes 1/5 - Colors

Cognates Quiz: here (completed as a warm-up)

Answer Garden: Why do you want to learn Spanish? Not why are you taking the class... Why did you choose to learn Spanish instead of French, Latin, or ASL?

Spanish Names: Choose a name from this list (or any others you can think of!) that starts with the first letter of your first name (here)

Review: Take a look at our Google Classroom, Syllabus, and Spanish Website

Colors Notes: Pictured to the right

  • Write the English and Spanish definitions in your notebook

  • Create 8 labels (one per color), and use them to find/label the colors around your room

  • Email me photos of your items/labels for a participation grade

Homework: Set up your Spanish notebook using this guide (here) -- due Friday 1/8 at the latest

Miércoles 1/6 - Weather/Numbers

Colors Review: In-class game on Nearpod

Weather Vocab: here (wrote on a new page in notebook titled "Tiempo - Weather". We also put hand gestures to each vocab word.)

Weather Pictures Practice: here (for each photo, tell me in the chat what the weather is like)

Months/Weather: For each month, tell me in the chat what weather you associate with that month

Numbers Notes: On a new page in your notebook titled "Numbers", write down the numbers 0-10 in both Spanish and English.

Homework: Complete this Numbers Practice assignment on Google Classroom (here). You'll need to use the Numbers Notes powerpoint from class today to complete this! Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Jueves 1/7 - Days of the Week

Bellwork: here (Slide 1) -- practice cognates and numbers (answers pictured below)

Weather review: Hand gestures (I do it, you tell me in the chat what it is in Spanish)

Colors/Numbers Review: I say a color and a number, and you need to find/hold up that many items that are that color

Homework Review: Yesterday's homework on Google Classroom we reviewed as a class -- the correct answer combo, when looked at upside down, should be "siete"

Quizlet: Join our class Quizlet account here (create your own Quizlet list in our class and name it "[Your Name] Spanish Vocab" and add any 7 words to this list that we have learned so far

New Vocab: Days of the Week (here slides 23-37). Practiced how to write out the phonetic spelling of each word as well, pictured below.

Homework: Continue your numbers notes here by writing down the numbers 11 through 31 in your notebook in both Spanish and English. Next to each word, also try writing out the phonetic spelling of how you think the word is pronounced like we did in class today -- we'll go over this in class tomorrow

Viernes 1/8 - Numbers 0-31

Bellwork: here (slide 2)

Numbers Review: How to pronounce 1-31, how to spell them phonetically, and the difference between 'veintiuno' and 'veinte y uno'

Numbers Practice: Quizlet Live

All Review: Numbers, Weather, Days of the Week, Colors via GimKit (humans vs zombies)

Homework: Using all 8 of these vocab words listed below, choose 2 of the Vocab Activities from the Choiceboard below to complete.

  • azul, verde, calor, frío, lunes, viernes, veinte, treinta