By Jennifer Burchill on
10/25/2008
I was out three days last week. As a result, the plans were slightly rearranged. There was no free write or dictation last week.
This week I will be out on Friday. Rather than reading stories, students will watch a PowerPoint presentation on the Day of the Dead.
Monday - Free Reading and Reading Logs
Tuesday - Free Write
Wednesday - Novel
Thursday - Dictation
Friday - Day of the Dead
We will also be asking and reading another class story.
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By Jennifer Burchill on
10/20/2008
Monday - Free Reading, Read and translate story
Tuesday - Free Write, Class story
Wednesday - Read novel
Thursday - No dictation - partner stories and skits
Friday - Read aloud, Class story
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By Jennifer Burchill on
10/13/2008
Welcome back to school, I hope everybody has caught up on their rest after our trip to the mountains. I had a lot of fun and hope you did too.
This week we will begin to read our class novels. We will begin with Pobre Ana.
Monday - Free Reading, class story
Tuesday - Free write, read class story
Wednesday - Novel, class story
Thursday - Dictation, read class story
Friday - Read aloud
This will be our basic weekly schedule from now on, as we will have each of the five main activities each week.
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By Jennifer Burchill on
10/6/2008
Hello everybody,
Thanks for such wonderful conferences last week! Please remember that there are only two days of classes this week.
On Monday we will be doing timed writes and reading a story.
On Tuesday we will be doing a dictation and telling stories.
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By Jennifer Burchill on
9/29/2008
Please remember that this week is very short. Monday and Tuesday are normal academic days. Wednesday is an earlier release day than normal: we release at 11:30. Next week is also a shortened week for 7-8 because of Team Building. Please remember that all forms are due by October 1, that is this Wednesday.
Due to the shortened week, we will not be learning new vocabulary or structures this week. We will, however, have our regularly scheduled reading, writing and story times.
On a related note, we have had three free writes so far this year. These free writes are not graded for grammatical or spelling accuracy. They are solely graded on student fluency in getting their thoughts on paper in a limited time (using Spanish, obviously.) The free writes have not been graded so far. The reason for this is that I used the first three essays to create a baseline for each st ...
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By Jennifer Burchill on
9/22/2008
Happy Monday everybody!
I hope everybody enjoyed their extended weekend.
This week students will begin free reading time in Spanish. We will be telling a story with weather vocabulary.
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By Jennifer Burchill on
9/15/2008
Spanish classes are continuing to progress. Depending on which class period your child has Spanish, they have already taken one - three quizzes, three dictations and read up to three stories. No, we have not read 88.2 stories yet! Each week your child should have a quiz, a dictation and a free write essay depending on the day. I continue to give versions of the same quiz until 80% of the class passes with an 80% or higher. You may notice multiple entries for quiz 1 or 2 in PowerSchool, only the last grade, which reflects the highest score your child earned, counts toward the grade.
This week we will wrap up the chocolate stories (delicioso!) and begin telling our next story in which somebody does not like the cold.
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By Jennifer Burchill on
9/8/2008
This week students have homework to teach their parents a few simple vocabulary words. There will be a total of six new words.
Classes are progressing well. This week students will write a baseline free write essay in class. These essays will not be graded. I am tracking each student's individual growth. Students will only be graded against themselves.
Don't forget to check out my class website where I have vocabulary lists and stories from class posted! The link is: http://profeburchill.wordpress.com/ and it is posted on my Stargate website.
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By Jennifer Burchill on
9/2/2008
Happy Tuesday! I hope everybody enjoyed their three day weekend.
There seems to be some confusion about my make up work policy this year. It is not punitive in nature, and is not extra work. To make up classwork missed during an absence students will write a brief essay in Spanish using the words we learned in class that day. Because of the nature of assignment, I am giving students up to one extra week beyond the school’s make up policy in order to provide adequate time to learn the new words. The essays are designed to make up the class discussions and students will also need to make up any other work they miss such as quizzes/tests.
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By Jennifer Burchill on
8/25/2008
Last week students began following simple commands in Spanish and finding out about each other. We have already introduced approximately 30 new words and phrases in Spanish through those two activities. We will continue with the same format over the next few weeks until we have had a chance to learn about each student and their likes and dislikes.
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