This month, our second-grade students who participated in the Symbolic Monarch Migration project said farewell to their butterflies. The butterflies began their journey south, and we look forward to welcoming new ones in the spring. Stay tuned! Learn more here.

We learned about the monarch butterfly’s migration and life cycle. Second- and third-grade students were introduced to the story Monarca va a México (Monarch Goes to Mexico). We learned and practiced important vocabulary such as hay (there is/there are), es (is), va a (goes to), dice (says), vive (lives), regresa (returns), and está (is—for feelings). These words helped us understand the main ideas of the story.

Students listened to the story, demonstrated understanding by acting it out, and then set up their Aventuras in Learning platform, where they completed activities to show comprehension of the vocabulary and main idea.

We also began talking about Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) using a KWL chart (What I Know, what I Want to know, and what I Learned). We will continue exploring and learning more about this celebration next month.

I encourage my students to keep reviewing our frequency words (Super 7+ vocabulary) at home. Click here to access a set of digital flashcards.

All of our class vocabulary is introduced and reinforced throughout our lessons. Students are gradually acquiring the language and expanding their vocabulary little by little.

We have started doing CALENDAR TALK to practice and review our days of the week, months, numbers, weather, celebrations, feelings check in, fun activities students do on certain days of the week, and most important to use and maintain the target language (Spanish) during class.

We practiced our classroom objects vocabulary. Students enjoyed our game "Who has the backpack?". This is a guessing game in where students had a simple conversation trying to find out who has the backpack. Phrases reinforced in this game were: "¿Quién tiene la mochila?" (Who has the backpack?), "[Name] tiene la mochila." ([Name] has the backpack.). "Sí, yo la tengo." (Yes, Ihave it), "No, yo no la tengo." (No, I don't have it.) We also played the game Buzz game in where we list the classroom objects and using the structure: "Necesito" (I need).

We started talking about the Monarch butterfly Migration, which will be leading us to talk about Day of the Dead in November. Students in second grade will be participating in the Symbolic Migration of the Monarch Butterflies. You can find more information here. 

Soon, we will be learning the song: "Señorita Mariposa." and playing an evolution game about the cycle of the butterfly. This is a video I made for my students to tell them a little bit about the migration of the Monarch butterflies. 

Students in Third grade set up their learning platforms that we will be using during this school year: Seesaw and google classroom.  

We are and will be reinforcing and reviewing our frequency words (Super 7+ vocabulary) through the year by using different strategies and techniques. Click here to access a set of digital flashcards.

All of the class vocabulary happens simultaneously during our lessons. Students will be acquiring the language and leveling up their language vocabulary little by little.