EXTRA CREDIT

Hola Amigos~

It's been one week of Spanish so far. . . What have you learned?  Write me an inquiry (or question) in Spanish and then how you would respond to that, plus your favorite thing about Spanish class for 3 points extra credit added to your comic strip or 3 punches! 

To post:

Look at the gray bar just below, in bright blue there should be "comment" click on that.  Type in your response, type your name in that same box, in the pull down you can have it say anonymous (you've written your name in the post, so that's fine).  Then click POST COMMENT.  I will get a notification, if your message is school appropriate, I will approve it, and you will then see it appear.  

Final Exams

Just grading the final exams and wanted to let you guys know how well you did!  Wow!!!  Impressive.  Hope to see all of you 7th/6th graders back next year. . .

REMEMBER WE HAVE THE FIESTA ON FRIDAY, BRING A SPANISH, MEXICAN, PUERTO RICAN, DOMINICAN, DISH TO PASS!!!!!!!!!

Conjuguemos. . . .

Hola mis amigo, escribo porque aprendemos los verbo y como conjugar.

Here are some helpful websites to understand conjugation:
1.  www.conjuguemos.com
2. user name:  claseloco@gmail.com  pw: spanish
3.  click on spanish verbs
4.  click on #2
5.  scroll to the place where you can pick out your verbs, select by holding down control or command all -ar verbs
6.  press start and begin to play

You can also get basic information here: http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/regverb1.htm

Good Luck!

S.S.

Days of the Week Song

Christmas in Spain

We are getting close to Christmas break and I wanted to give you some highlights of how Spain celebrates Christmas that are different from those traditions we have in the U.S.

1.  Christmas Eve is a night spent usually going to mass, followed by a dinner with the family.
2.  Christmas is less about presents and more a family and religious holiday.
3.  Children receive gifts from the 3 wise men on epiphany, January 6th. (in Puerto Rico and Mexico some children fill shoe boxes w/ grass pulled from the  lawn for the camels and presents are placed in the empty box by the Magi, much like our stockings)

How do you celebrate Christmas?  Is it very different from the "American tradition?"  Would you consider adopting new traditions?

The Alphabet Song, listen in!

if the above box does not work, just go to youtube, type in El Alfabeto, and you should be able to find it.

Podcasts for further learning

 Hello to all!  During Parent/Teacher conferences some of you were interested in ways that you or your son or daughter could continue to practice Spanish outside of the classroom.  Here are two podcasts that will help you do just that!  You could download them to your ipod, listen to them on the website, or burn them to a CD.  Anyway you do it, it will help you to refresh what you've learned in class and continue to improve your Spanish proficiency.

-S.S.
click here! notes in spanish
or here http://discoverspanish.com/podcast.php