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

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

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

¿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.

Ask you child to spell their name using Spanish letter sounds!

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

Thanks, and I apologize if your child spent too much time on this assignment.

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

The lists of vocabulary are written in the spiral notebooks by the students in class. The SPIRAL notebook is basically the text for Spanish class and the students are creating this “vocab textbook” by copying down vocabulary in class.

Each UNIT is comprised of about 14 words. It is the student’s responsibility to copy the vocab. lists. Sometimes students don’t finish writing down the words in class, so I give handouts in class for these cases and the student needs to copy the vocab into their spiral at home.

Also, I keep the word lists for each week posted here below in the weekly updates. Scroll down to make sure your students have them written correctly.

Homework is posted in the tabs above according to week/date. Please check daily to ensure completion. Students are responsible for bringing home the assignments from class on the day they are assigned.

Gracias and contact me anytime

sweller@alaschools.org