Thursday, January 7, 2016

Important web sites/addresses:  

  1.  my email: wwilson@pvlearners.net

  2.  class blog:  bienvenidospvhs.blogspot.com

  3.  Twitter: @bienvenidospvhs
  4.  Infinite Campus: https://ic.pvschools.net

  5.  text site:  www.classzone.com

Block 1  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students completed the warm up.
-Students practiced the alphabet in Spanish.
-Students practiced their dialogs with a partner.
-Students started the set up of their Interactive Student Notebooks.

Homework:
-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.

-Complete the PRIDE handout that you were given in class today.

Blocks 2 & 4  Spanish 1-2:

-Students completed the warm up.
-Students practiced reciting the alphabet, numbers 0 - 10 and the days of the week in Spanish.
-Students practiced their dialogs with several partners. 
-Students set up the first few pages of their Interactive Student Notebooks.
-Students in block 4 completed a find someone who activity.

  
Homework:

-Carlos Santana biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Santana's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Bring a single subject spiral notebook and glue sticks to class on Thursday. 
-Block 2 only - complete the PRIDE handout you were given in class.
-Be prepared to present the alphabet in Spanish by next Monday.
-Be prepared to present your dialog in Spanish by next Tuesday.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Important web sites/addresses:  

  1.  my email: wwilson@pvlearners.net

  2.  class blog:  bienvenidospvhs.blogspot.com

  3.  Twitter: @bienvenidospvhs
  4.  Infinite Campus: https://ic.pvschools.net

  5.  text site:  www.classzone.com

Block 1  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students  completed the warm up.
-Students completed the Tour of the Text handout and turned that in.
-Students worked with their table groups to brainstorm questions that they learned in Spanish 1-2.  Then, they shared those questions with the class.
-Students selected a partner and started practicing their first dialogs based on the questions that were brainstormed in class.
-Students practiced the Spanish alphabet.

Homework:
-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.
-In Spanish, write an 8 sentence paragraph about the people in your family.

-Bring a single subject spiral notebook and glue sticks to class on Thursday.
-Follow the link to the Google Classroom in your pvlearners email to activate your enrollment.
-Be prepared to recite the Spanish alphabet next Monday.

Blocks 2 & 4  Spanish 1-2:

-Students completed the warm up.
-Students completed the Tour of the Text handout and turned that in.
-Students in block 2 completed a find someone who activity.
-Students practiced the Spanish alphabet.
-Students practiced the numbers 0 - 10 and the days of the week in Spanish.
-Students started making a bingo card using the vocabulary from the preliminary lesson.  The front of the card needs to have 25 Spanish words and the back of the card needs 10 pictures & 15 English translations in the corresponding boxes.

  
Homework:

-Carlos Santana biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Santana's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Finish the bingo card you started in class.
-Bring a single subject spiral notebook and glue sticks to class on Thursday. 
-Follow the link to the Google Classroom in your pvlearners email to activate your enrollment.
-Be prepared to present the alphabet in Spanish by next Monday.
-Be prepared to present your dialog in Spanish by next Tuesday.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Important web sites/addresses:  

  1.  my email: wwilson@pvlearners.net

  2.  class blog:  bienvenidospvhs.blogspot.com

  3.  Twitter: @bienvenidospvhs
  4.  Infinite Campus: https://ic.pvschools.net

  5.  text site:  www.classzone.com

Block 1  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students  were taught how to set up their warm up papers and they completed their first warm up activity.
-Students took the course pretest.

Homework:
-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.

-Bring a single subject spiral notebook and glue sticks to class on Thursday.
-Follow the link to the Google Classroom in your pvlearners email to activate your enrollment.

Blocks 2 & 4  Spanish 1-2:

-Students were taught how to set up their warm up papers and they completed the first warm up activity.
-Students took the course pretest.
-Students in block 2 practiced reciting the Spanish alphabet, the numbers 0 - 10 and the days of the week in Spanish.
-Students in block 2 practiced their dialogs with a partner.

  
Homework:

-Carlos Santana biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Santana's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Bring a single subject spiral notebook and glue sticks to class on Thursday. 
-Follow the link to the Google Classroom in your pvlearners email to activate your enrollment.
-Be prepared to present the alphabet in Spanish by next Monday.
-Be prepared to present your dialog in Spanish by next Tuesday.

Sample Famous Person Paragraph

Please follow this example when creating your paragraphs to submit about the famous people each week in the Google Classroom.

Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos is a novelist who was born in New York City in 1951.  His parents were from Cuba and wanted their son to have a strong understanding of his heritage. For this reason, they taught him only Spanish.  When Mr. Hijuelos was about four years old, he was diagnosed with a kidney disorder and he was placed in a home for terminally ill children.  The isolation that he felt during the two years that he was living in the home eventually led to his desire to express himself in writing.  After college, Oscar went to work for an advertising company and began writing short stories.  He went on to write The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.  The novel became a bestseller before being made into a movie.   Mr. Hijuelos was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for this work in 1990 and he is still considered one of the primary voices of the experiences of Cubans emigrating to the United States.   His work is important to me because it provides an opportunity for me to understand what it was like for people who moved from Cuba to the United States.  In addition, the movie, Mambo Kings, led to a mambo revival, which re-introduced that style of music in the United States. 

Monday, January 4, 2016

Important web sites/addresses:  

  1.  my email: wwilson@pvlearners.net

  2.  class blog:  bienvenidospvhs.blogspot.com

  3.  Twitter: @bienvenidospvhs
  4.  Infinite Campus: https://ic.pvschools.net

  5.  text site:  www.classzone.com

Block 1  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students  filled out the student information sheet.
-Students viewed the classroom policies and procedures presentation.
-Students completed a find someone who activity.
-Students listened to the teacher's introduction to herself in Spanish and took notes.
-Students wrote an introduction to themselves in Spanish.
-Students completed a round table vocabulary review with their table groups.

Homework:
-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.

-Bring a single subject spiral notebook and glue sticks to class on Thursday.
-Follow the link to the Google Classroom in your pvlearners email to activate your enrollment.

Blocks 2 & 4  Spanish 1-2:

-Students completed the student information sheet.
-Students viewed the classroom policies and procedures presentation.
-Students completed a find someone who activity.
-Students were introduced to the Spanish alphabet and practiced repeating it several times.
-Students took notes on the numbers 0 - 10 and practiced pronouncing them correctly.
-Students took notes on the days of the week and practiced pronouncing them correctly.
-Students learned their first dialog in Spanish and practiced the dialog with several partners. 

  
Homework:

-Carlos Santana biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, January 8, 2016.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Santana's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Bring a single subject spiral notebook and glue sticks to class on Thursday. 
-Follow the link to the Google Classroom in your pvlearners email to activate your enrollment.
-Be prepared to present the alphabet in Spanish by next Monday.
-Be prepared to present your dialog in Spanish by next Tuesday.

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Blocks 1 & 4  Spanish 3-4:

-Students  completed the warm up.
-Students repeated the 3.1 vocabulary.
-Students took notes on verbs with irregular yo forms in the present tense.
-Students received graded papers.
-Students corrected workbook pages.
-Students had time to work on remaining activities from Día de Muertos. These are all due by tomorrow.

Homework:
-Jerry Garcia biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, November 6, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Garcia's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.

-Block 1 - Bingo card and workbook page 101 is due tomorrow.
-Block 4 - workbook page 102 is due tomorrow.

Block 2  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students completed the warm up.
-Students repeated the 3.1 vocabulary.
-Students took notes on verbs with irregular yo forms in the present tense.
-Students received graded papers.
-Students had time to work on remaining activities from Día de Muertos. These are all due by tomorrow.

  
Homework:

-Jerry Garcia biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, November 6, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Garcia's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Bingo card is due tomorrow.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Blocks 1 & 4  Spanish 3-4:

-Students  completed the warm up on a new paper.
-Students repeated the 3.1 vocabulary.
-Students listened to the introduction to the new vocabulary for 3.1 and took turns reading it aloud.
-Students participated in a class discussion about Maria Hinojosa and took notes on her accomplishments.
-Students received graded papers.
-Students had time to work on remaining activities from Día de Muertos.

Homework:
-Jerry Garcia biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, November 6, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Garcia's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.

-Block 1 - Ofrendas are due tomorrow.
-Block 4 - workbook page 101 is due tomorrow.

Block 2  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students completed the warm up on a new paper.
-Students repeated the 3.1 vocabulary.
-Students listened to the introduction to the new vocabulary for 3.1 and took turns reading it aloud.
-Students participated in a class discussion about Maria Hinojosa and took notes on her accomplishments.  
-Students received graded papers.
-Students had time to work on remaining activities from Día de Muertos.

  
Homework:

-Jerry Garcia biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, November 6, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Garcia's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Workbook page 101 is due tomorrow.