Material escolar / School supplies

Students learn about school supplies vocabulary. We play several games in order to learn the new words:

1. Silent game

2. Quizlet game (Material escolar nivel I)

3. Quizlet game (Material escolar nivel II)

La escuela / School locations

Students learn about the school locations. Flashcards and a power point with real pictures of the school are shown. Then, we learn the new vocabulary playing games:

1. Silent game:

2. Quizlet game: Once the students get familiarized with the vocabulary, we go to the computer lab, so they can practice the vocabulary individually.

100 board

Póster de los colores / Color poster

Calavera para Día de los muertos

Here you have another calavera. I think I will show it to my students next Día de las muertos! =)

Check it out: Rosaleen Gallagher, a blogger shares this calavera picture and she explains how to do face paint yourself. She is an artist!

Fonética del español / Spanish phonetics

Fonética: Los sonidos del Español: This is a great tool to teach our students how to pronounce the Spanish phonemes. I use it exclusively with higher grades and mainly for my personal reference. Sometimes, it´s hard to explain to our students how to pronounce some specific phonemes like:

 /θ/ ----- decir
 /ʧ/ ----chico
/ʎ/-------Castillo
/ɲ/--------Señorita
/x/--------jugar

However, this tool provides you with videos, images and other resources that makes it easier.

Class Dojo and Portfolio

As you know, my students and I use Linguafolio / Portfolio to reflect about the learning. I found Class Dojo a great tool for this purpose too. When the grading period ends, I print the reports from the Website. The reports look like this:

Then, students need to work on their classroom portfolio. They need to choose three activities that they are proud of and these samples need to show their knowledge about the language. My students are giving examples to understand what quality work means. After working on it individually, I put the in pairs and they show their choices to another classmate to make sure that they have done a clever choice. 

After that, I staple the samples of work and grade them. In the report, on the right corner, I write the grade from the Portfolio and the average grade for this particular grading period that includes the data from Class Dojo, my notes and the samples of work. Then, I have conferences with my students and they are provided with advices about how to improve. We write the observations in the report and both sign the paper. For that, we use a promising pen (it´s a magic pen that make promises). 

I keep the report for future reference and for parents conference.