Monday - Free Reading

Tuesday - Free Writing

Wednesday - Class novel

Thursday - Dictation

Friday - Read aloud

In addition to the activities listed above, the classes will be creating and reading stories this week.

Happy Monday everybody! 

Monday - Free reading and reading log

Tuesday - Free write

Wednesday - Class novel

Thursday - Dictation

Friday - Class read aloud

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.

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

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.

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.

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 student.  In the future, each student will be graded solely against him/herself.  I am proud to say that the average essay has increased...

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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.

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. 

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.