Students in fourth and fifth grade continue to challenge themselves and create using the target language, Spanish. We are building our calendar vocabulary by having conversations about celebrations and important events happening in our school, families, and community. This practice prepares us to have short conversations in Spanish. We have also started using our journals to do some writing in Spanish.

To provide comprehensible input and support language acquisition, we did a  clip chat activity. During this activity, I narrated a story while incorporating frequency verbs and familiar vocabulary in context. I asked questions to check for comprehension and personalized questions to keep students engaged. Afterward, some classes completed a writing activity about the story in their journals. Here is the video we used for this activity.

We have also started discussing Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) by sharing what we already know about this cultural celebration. We will continue exploring this topic next month.

I invite my older students to become familiar with this set of frequency words. 

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 did CALENDAR TALK to practice and review our days of the week, months, numbers, weather, celebrations, do self check ins, talk about their daily activities and fun activities during their weekends, and most important to use and maintain the target language (Spanish) during class. This also allowed us to personalize the information and keep students engaged while immersed in the target language.

Students worked on a Hexagon project to share about their favorites. We have been practicing our basic vocabulary to build up confidence when we put this into conversational exercises during class activities.  

We are starting to use our Spanish notebooks for some writing exercises. We set up our goals for the first trimester and talked about how we can keep ourselves accountable in order to achieve our goals. Students familiarized themselves with Spanish proficiency levels and how they can level up. 

Finally, we set up our learning platforms that we will be using during this school year: Seesaw and google classroom. 

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.