Thursday, December 15, 2011

Lesson 9: ¿Cómo está el tiempo?

The week of  December 4th we did: "How is the weather?" and we went over 7 possible responses, and as with seasons and days and months we go over them during calendar time! So we are reinforcing them continually, so hopefully you guys at home can too! Take a look at the vocab and I attached a video to get 
some of the pronunciation! ¡Disfruten!

¿Cómo está el tiempo?


Hace frío.           
It’s cold. 
             
Hace calor.            
It’s hot.

Hace viento.           
It’s windy.

Hace sol.                    
It’s sunny.

Está nublado.             
It’s cloudy.

Está lloviendo.          
It’s raining.

Está nevando.       
It’s snowing. 


On Fridays of this lesson and the seasons lesson, homeroom teachers played the Whistlefritz dvd on the seasons, apprently it was a big hit. The music is extremely fun and the lessons go right in line with what we are talking about, if you are interested in some good reinforcement materials for home I'd check it out!
 

Friday, December 9, 2011

Lesson 8: Las estaciónes

Alright so clearly going in line with our calendar activities we have added on: The Seasons!!! 

El invierno- Winter
La primavera- Spring
El verano- Summer
El otoño- Fall

The question is: 

¿Cuál es la estación?

Es ____________________. And right now Es otoño. In a couple weeks though it will definitely be invierno... uh ohhh! 

So work on seasons please! We're at a perfect time ending one and coming into another! The next post couples with this lesson as well... hopefully you can see that there is a trend going on with my lessons... that they build on each other!!! 






Lesson 7: ¿Cuál es el mes?

Another aspect of our calendar time is telling the date and month. 

We ask the question:
¿Cuál es el mes?
and we respond with:
Es_________________.

And the possible answers are the months:

enero 
febrero
marzo
abril
mayo 
junio 
julio
agosto
septiembre
octubre
noviembre
diciembre

Obviously right now we are in diciembre.. ps months are never capitalized.

So vocab for this unit is asking what month it is and the months of the year. Ask them to maybe sing you the months of the year song- to the same tune of the song in English except in Spanish!!! Have fun let me know if anyone is singing them at home!! 




Lesson 6: ¿Qué día es hoy?

So, for awhile now we've been incorporating calendar activities into the beginning of every lesson. We start with:

¿Qué día es hoy?
and we respond with:

Hoy es _________________. 

And it will either be:

lunes- monday
martes- tuesday
miercoles- wednesday
jueves- thursday
viernes- friday
sábado- saturday
domingo- sunday

¿Qué día será mañana?
Mañana será____________. 

¿Qué día fue ayer?
Ayer fue _____________.

So the vocab they should know are the days of the week, and the questions and proper responses in full sentences. Most kids don't have it down exactly, but if Parents wouldn't mind asking your kids the days of the week or quizzing them on what day is today (que dia es hoy...manana...ayer) or asking them to sing the days of the week train song... and hopefully they will!!


Recapping our show!

Here are a few photographs from the Moona Luna concert, the field trip included the Goldfish, Dragonflies, Grasshoppers and VLA's kindergarteners, first and second graders. 


Shrea and Asha Dancing!!!


Bella and friends.

The group dancing with Ms. Pesola.


They had a ton of different instruments and the music was perfect to dance to! 

Zaria, Ginger, Santori and Arteen!




Overall it was a huge success and I am looking for other opportunities like it! I'll keep you updated when I find them!!!