8th grade Weather Video

Bagnall Blurb #3 Noviembre

Bagnall Blurb #3

Noviembre

Padres y Amigos,

It was wonderful to get a chance to meet some of you and chat over parent teacher conferences! I had wonderful things to share and it was encouraging to hear that students are using their Spanish at home. As we head into the month of December here are some updates on what has been happening in your child’s Spanish class and what is to come in these Christmas season weeks!

Quinto Grado (5th): We are still continuing in our second unit (En Clase). The students have been learning how to say the different classes that they have (arte, ciencias, educación física, etc) and adjectives to describe them (fácil, interesante, mi favorite, etc). In the next week we will be putting a small graphic organizer together of their class schedule all in Spanish. We will also be having a QUIZ on Dec 8 or Dec 9 (depending on your home room class. This quiz will be on all the vocabulary and grammar from unit II. 5th graders should take their Spanish binder home that week to study. I will also have a practice quiz on my quia site (www.quia.com/profiles/rbagnall15). And since it is Christmas time we are signing some Christmas songs in Spanish. You can practice these songs by clicking on the link on the upper right hand side of the blog that says “Spanish Class Songs”. You will be directed to a site with all videos of our songs, for the Christmas ones select NAVIDAD. Feliz Navidad everyone!

Sexto grado (6th): The 6^th graders have just added a new verb to their vocabulary. The verb they have learned is “querer” which means to want. They are using it in more complex sentences to say what they want to do, such as “Quiero jugar videojuegos” (I want to play video games) or “Quiero domir porque estoy cansado” (I want to sleep because I am tired). They also completed their first “free write” in Spanish where they had fifteen minutes in class to write a story all in Spanish. The stories they came up with were great and it was amazing to see how they could put together what they know! The most exciting thing happening, however, is writing to our 1^st grade buddies at Cesar Chavez Elementary School. The students there are learning English and we will be writing to them and visiting them before Christmas break. The 6^th graders seem excited to start this relationship and practice their Spanish with native speakers!

Séptimo Grado (7th): We are wrapping up our unit on health in 7^th grade Spanish. Everything that we have done thus far with vocabulary and grammar has led us to our Home Remedies Project. Each 7^th grader will create a presentation all in Spanish on a home remedy that they use/learned about from their home and family members. It will be a great way to put together everything that we have learned about the body parts, giving advice, and medical solutions. We will also be taking a quiz on this unit on 14^th/16^th of December (depending on your home room). Students can practice for this quiz on quia, so check it out at www.quia.com/profiles/rbagnall15

Octavo Grado (8^th): The 8^th grade weather videos turned out great! Check out the blog where I posted a couple of example ones. They 8^th graders also took a quiz in class last week on their computers. They were able to take the quiz up to 3 times in order to fix their mistakes and improve; most students took advantage of this and scored very high! We are moving on now in class with the verb ESTAR (to be) and its different uses. We are currently studying how it is used in the verb form of the present progressive (the “ING” verb). We will have a quiz on this information before Christmas break sometime, be sure to check net classroom for updates on assignments and assessments. Most excitingly, we received letters back from our pen pals in Honduras. We wrote them back and are now practicing Christmas carols in Spanish so that we can Skype Carol them before break!

Adiós y hasta luego,

Sra. Becky Bagnall

bbagnall@grcs.org

616 574 6343

8th grade Weather Video

Here is a video from our 8th grade Weather forecast projects! Everyone did a great job!

7th grade Home Remedies Project

7th graders have been learning about health/illnesses/body parts in Spanish class. This week we introduced a project about home remedies. Home remedies are very common Each student is to talk with their parents, grandparents, friends about a home remedy that they can talk about and present on. This does not have to be something complex, for example my mom had me drink a glass of water upside down whenever I got the hiccups. Or, when I couldn't fall alseep at night she would have me drink a glass of warm milk. I am sure that if you do some "digging" you will be able to come up with something. Then we will create a presentation all in Spanish on your own home remedy! But you need to have an idea for a home remedy by Wed, Nov 30th (for Drenth's class) or Fri, Dec 2nd (for Greidanus's class).

La Clase de Fobias Reading

8th graders please use this recording of the "Clase de Fobias" story to help you read the story and answer the questions that go with it.

8th grade QUIZ

8th graders have a quiz either this week Thursday or Friday (Nov 17th-18th). The quiz will cover the vocabulary from p43 (household things) and the verb ESTAR (see notes). There are two games on quia that will help you prepare for the quiz. Click on the links below to get to them!

http://www.quia.com/rr/848779.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/2347315.html

Spanish Phrase of the Week Nov. 14th

Spanish Phrase of the Week, November 14^th, 2011

In the next week or so many of us will be eating a LOT of food! Here are some helpful “eating” phrases when speaking Spanish, maybe you could even use one or two at the Thanksgiving dinner table!

Esa estaba absolutamente deliciosa (Eh-sah eh-stah-bah ab-sow-loo-tah-ment-eh day-lee-see-oh-sah) English: That was absolutely delicious!

¿Me pasas __________, por favor?(may pah-sahs pour fah-vore?) English: Please pass the __

¡Huele riquísimo! (Way-lay ree-key-see-mo)

English: Smells delicious!

7th grade Vocabulary QUIZ

7th graders have a vocabulary quiz this week Wed or Friday (depending on their class). It is covering the body parts vocabulary list, which can be found on pg.1 of their Spanish binder, Unit II packet. It will also be on the "ritmo"... a chant that we learned in class. Please study at home with your notes and/or use the following link to practice on QUIA :)

http://www.quia.com/jg/2130655.html

Spanish Phrase of the Week Nov 14th

Spanish Phrase for November 14^th, 2011

To let someone know that you are just kidding in English you might say, “I’m just pulling your leg”. There is a similar phrase in Spanish only it translates to I’m just pulling your hair (pelo).

Te estoy tomando el pelo (Tay eh-stoy toe-mahn-doe ehl pay-lo)

English: I’m just kidding!