Sep
3
2011
This website will serve as our ALA Spanish Newsletter. I will be updating this site weekly for you to be able to use this hand-in-hand with Jupiter Grades to stay on top of your student’s progress in Spanish.
Oct
19
2010
¡Hola!
It’s good to be back and in full swing with Spanish again. I hope you all enjoyed your fall break. I know I took advantage of the time to sharpen my saw and work on personal WIGS.
We will be back into warm-ups and vocabulary lists on Wed. of this week. Please keep up on this site for announcements, HW, and vocab for each week.
It’s so good to see all your wonderful children again. They are having fun today and yesterday singing songs in Spanish. Ask you student about their favorite song in Spanish. You might even be able to hear some of them on the radio!
Gracias for all your continued support.
Sra. Weller
Sep
23
2010
This week we are adding a few new words to begin UNIT 4:
Los Días de la Semana The Days of the Week
lunes Monday
martes Tuesday
miércoles Wednesday
jueves Thursday
viernes Friday
sábado Saturday
domingo Sunday
el opuesto de The opposite of
después de After
antes de Before
va go/goes
hoy today
mañana tomorrow
ayer yesterday
Sep
20
2010
Hola!
I hope your student has informed you of our Spanish Class WIG (Wildly Important Goal)…we started it the first week of school. All classes have been working hard to earn their tassel balls for the Sombrero. Once each class earns 8, we will celebrate with a FIESTA!!! (which is NEXT WEEK!)
The way each class earns tassels on their class sombrero is by showing Respect, Responsibility and Readiness each day. If students are on-task, participating, talking only when called upon by the teacher, and being prepared for learning each day, the class earns points. If the class has more points than the teacher by the end of Spanish each day for a week, then the class wins a ball for the sombrero!
Some classes have had to “earn make-up points” to win back a week they lost, but most have done a great job in showing leadership and self-government. We will be celebrating with a class fiesta according to the following schedule below:
Mrs. Sneed, Mrs. Young, Ms. Ziegler, Mrs. Stiltner, Ms. Crowell, Mr. Erye, Ms. Lane, and Mrs. Ward: Tuesday Sept. 28
Ms. Bratz, Mrs. Sarager, Ms. Clouse, Mrs. Edwards, Ms. Mitchell, Ms. Gross and Mrs. Beam: Wednesday Sept. 29
If you can help out with our fiesta, it would be greatly appreciated! I have been encouraging the kids to talk to Mom/Dad about bringing in a piñata, chips, salsa, or drinks for our celebration. We only need one piñata per class, so if you could bring in any of these items, please let me know. We will also need about 30 ct. of plates, cups, and napkins per class. I will be sending out reminder emails through Snapgrades, so please respond via email or send in a note with what you are donating.
Muchas gracias!!
Sra. Weller
Sep
8
2010
This week’s words are found below:
¿Cómo se dice _ en español? How do you say__in Spanish?
Buenos días Good morning
Buenas tardes Good afternoon
Buenas noches Good night
¿Qué pasa? What’s up?
No mucho Not much
Nos vemos See ya later
Come Eat
Baila Dance
Date vuelta Turn around/spin
Mira Look at
Vez/veces Time/times (how many)
Los niños The children
por favor Please
It’s a great idea to have students study this vocab. nightly to be sure to learn the meanings.
Sep
3
2010
We had QUIZ #3 today…on the ABC’s. Students have been practicing all week in class and with homework how to spell using Spanish letters and phonetic sounds.
Ask you child to spell their name using Spanish letter sounds!
Aug
31
2010
Hola,
I want to give a heads up about grades as this week is the half-way mark of the first grading term. I sent home a grade report today that needs to be signed and sent back tomorrow. If you could include your email, that would help tremendously. Also, a link was sent out with the computerized grading system yesterday for those who were already in the system. I will put your email in as soon as I receive them.
Keep in mind that homework is not accepted late at ALA. If there is classwork, like warm-ups or quizzes that are missing, a student can make those up after school. Please make arrangements to do that with the teacher.
Students checked their grade reports with their Tarea Sheet and their graded warm-ups. If there are missing grades, then the student was not there or did not have their binders with them in class. If these missing assignments aren’t shown to the teacher by the end of this week, they will turn into a ZERO. Please ask your student to show you their warm-up grade and their homework sheet (yellow Tarea Sheet) to double check as well.
Gracias,
Sra. Weller
Aug
26
2010
Just a quick note about last night’s homework… I understand that word searches are tedious and difficult for some children. Although I had several 3rd graders do the entire puzzle for extra credit, I also had several 4th and 5th graders not to do any of the puzzle. As a rule of thumb, if your student is spending more than 30 or 40 mins. on my homework, have them stop and turn in what they can. I do not want to overload students.
Thanks, and I apologize if your child spent too much time on this assignment.
Aug
22
2010
Hola,
This week we are beginning our next unit, ABC’s, Pronunciation, Cognates and Language History.
Please click the above HomeWork links to find out this week’s homework.
Gracias,
Sra. Weller
Aug
18
2010
