Paper fortune tellers? Cootie catchers?
In Spanish, we call them Comecocos (coconut eaters), and 4th grade created their own in order to practice orally their interviewing skills. This project helped us put together various topics we had been working with for several months. It was a great review game as well as a great game to get us talking more in Spanish!
They asked each other questions like
1. ¿Cómo te llamas? (what is your name?)
2. ¿Cómo estás? (how are you?)
3. ¿Cuál es tu color favorito? (what is your favorite color?)
4. ¿Cuál es tu fruta favorita? (What is your favorite food?)
5. ¿Cuántos años tienes? (how old are you?)
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In order to review the new fruits and vegetables vocabulary, 6th graders partnered up and created crossword puzzles. The goal of this activity was to sharpen our spelling skills, commit our new vocabulary to memory and get creative!The finished products were then copied and handed to other teams to see if they could complete them without the help of their binders.
Since the age of 7 I have been involved with musicals. I love to sing, I love to act, I love to dance! During college there were no opportunities, nor spare time, for me to be involved with any productions. Therefore, when I found out that St. Joseph did musicals I rushed to Mrs. Ferree! I HAD to be involved somehow! She was incredibly generous and offered me an assistant director spot. I was incredibly grateful and excited to see the students outside of the classroom. What an incredible time we had during rehearsals. Their performance was out of this world! So much talent. I cannot wait to be able to help again with the 2015 production.
My 7th and 8th grade students have been working on identifying the parts of a descriptive sentence. Spanish word order is a bit different than English and therefore lots of practice is needed. One of our practice activities was inspired by the game Boggle. While the original game only provides the players with letters, our version gave us different components to a sentence. During the time allowed, students had to come up with as many sentences as possible using those strips of papers. Following that, they had to work as a team and go over each person´s sentences and determine if they were correct (earns a point) or incorrect (no point). I enjoyed seeing how competitive they all were, and impressed by the descriptions produced.
3rd grade LOVES to sing!
So when we were learning about vegetables, I showed sang this song for them. They were very excited and they memorized the lyrics very quickly. So we decided that the show needed to go on the road. The children each selected a vegetable to create a poster. We choreographed our performance and shared it with other classes.
We had a blast and they will never forget what those veggies are called in Spanish!
One of the things I enjoy from teaching at a Catholic school is the possibility to share my love for languages through prayers. As a class we take a poll and decide what prayer we want to learn. Then students are given a chance to create their prayer cards to help them memorize it. Below a 6th grader´s prayer for after meals, and an 8th grader´s Glory Be.
