In Spanish this week we will be reviewing former vocabulary words, and then holding a fashion show to practice our clothing and adjectives.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!  Don't forget there is extra credit today and tomorrow if you bring in your food.  We will be reviewing the work students did last week while I was away for these two days.

Don't forget that there is extra credit available the last two days of the trimester, Monday, November 19 and Tuesday, November 20.  Bring in your Hispanic dishes with enough for your entire class to try some, and get extra credit.  These are the only two days that the project is available.  If you are not planning on being here, you may not bring the food early.

I am out of town for the week.  I am going to San Antonio, Texas for a foreign language teachers' convention.   Ms. Bender will be my sub while I am gone.  She is an excellent teacher, and has been my sub during both of my maternity leaves.

While I am gone, students will be working in small groups on their vocabulary.  They are looking for some of the patterns which we have seen but not explicitly studied as of yet. This work is vital.  If you are not present, you must make this up.

This week we are going back to learning some new vocabulary words.  The words will all fit into our next few stories.  One of the stories involes a frog, while the other one is about a turkey. 

This week we are completing our final edits to the essay "How is learning a foreign language like discovering buried treasure."  We are finishing the skits on the cow and the monkey.  In addition, we will look at the holiday, Day of the Dead.  There will be an assessment this week, so don't be surprised.

I'd like to apologize to everybody for not having my grades more up-to-date at the moment.  The last three weeks have been very fast with little class time or time for me to sit and grade.  I am updating the gradebook as quickly as I have work graded. 

Thank you for your patience!

I was out sick on Tuesday and the assignment was to write a polished essay.  This is NOT homework.  Please stop working on it if you have not yet completed it.  There will be class time devoted to doing this.  I am so sorry for the confusion and I hope that everybody is doing well!

Well, here it is!  A 5 day school week!!  It was great to see so many of you for conferences, and team building was wonderful!  Thank you everybody for so much support and fun.  I don't know about amybody else, but I'm ready to get back into a routine. 

This week we will continue to work on the vocabulary from the Cow and the Monkey story.  Several students have expressed to me that they are uncomfortable with the pace at which we learned it.  Also, if your child has been doing poorly on quizzes, do not be surprised if you do not see a current quiz this week or in the future.  I am working on a way for students to retake previous quizzes until they have mastered that material.  If you are looking at their grades on powerschool you will see blue dashed lines for the current assignment, and a blue score for the previous assignment.  Anything that is blue is clickable - grades that are ...