Essays, Personality Tests and Geography in French!

Students of Madame Leidhoff's Advanced Placement French continue to forge ahead with practice on the new French Language and Culture Advanced Placement Exam. This week these hard-working students did listening and reading prompts, as well as a persuasive essay.

Students also took a personality test in French, viewed a Court Metrage, and vocabulary activities associated with their feelings and personality differences.

Students of first year French did culture and geography of France. They also continue to learn words associated with the classroom, salutations, and new questions to ask each other.

Verde, Blanco y Rojo

It's Homecoming and Period 1 students noticed that, with only one senior, the class colors reflected the colors of the Mexican Flag. Señor Lawhead was convinced to take a class photo showing VERDE, BLANCO y ROJO(and the lone senior AZUL). ¡Feliz Homecoming, Halcones!

¡Hola, yo soy...!

Dr. Jacobson's Spanish 1-2 students practiced saying phrases of introduction and descriptions using the verb 'Ser'. Students brought a picture of themeselves to school and created 'Yo mismo (misma)' mini-posters that are displayed on the wall, providing their name, names of family members, where they are from, their birthdate and additional information students desired to include on their personal narrative. 

Past Tense, Personal Descriptions and the Weather!

Sra. Ranzolin's Spanish 5-6 students wrote about a funny event from the past using the preterite tense and drew a picture to go with it. Students in Spanish 3-4 continued with their review of Spanish 1-2. They also started working on their first project in which they describe themselves in detail. Students in Spanish 1-2 learned the days of the weeks, the numbers 1-10, and how to describe the weather. They culminated with a class activity in which they researched the weather of a Spanish Speaking country and created a weather report.

Welcome Miss Burke!

World Languages would like to welcome Miss Elizabeth Burke to the department.  Miss Burke will be teaching ASL 3-4 and 5-6.  She comes to us with a degree in DHH (Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing)Teaching and American Sign Language from Eastern Kentucky University. She has recently returned from Kenya where she worked with DHH students for the Peace Corps.  Welcome Miss Burke!

Numbers, spelling and games for ASL students!

Mrs. Redelings's ASL 1 students finished Unit 1 vocabulary and learned numbers 16-30. . To review for their tests, students signed and finger-spelled with partners and as a class in Sign Volleyball and also practiced their comprehension skills through white board practice. In addition, they played language games, such as 'Vocabulary Beach Ball,' and 'Fly Swatter.'

¡Vóleibol de Verbos and Crayon Therapy!

Sr. McVeigh's 5-6 and 7-8 classes practiced the irregular preterite tense verbs with "vóleibol de verbos." A flying beach ball always makes conjugating verbs a little more fun! Yesterday, the AP Spanish students had some "Crayon Therapy" to compensate for two weeks of stressful testing. In partners, one student described his or her favorite elementary school teacher while their partner drew a picture of the teacher based on the description they heard.

French students sing, play and "travel" to Morocco!

Madame Leidhoff's students of advanced French practiced the conditional mode by choosing a prompt in French from the game SCRUPLES. Students also sang the song SACRE CHARLEMAGNE. Compostion is due on Monday.

Students of beginning French took a brief trip to Morocco, with Ian Wright of THE LONELY PLANET and categorized transportation, arts, festivals, foods and customs on conceptual map.

Campus Walk for French Students!

Madame Frederickson's French 5-6 students took a short walk around the campus and then returned to the classroom to write about the walk. "Compositions" sounded a bit like this: "We saw one bird. It was not singing. The bird was black and the sky was blue. Cayci was taking pictures. The weather was hot. One teacher wearing a red tee-shirt walked by. We went to the library. Mrs. Toyzan welcomed us. She told us about the library, its books and computers. Then we went back to the room."  A great way to study the past tense!

Singing in Class

Señor Lawhead leads his students in singing "Pobre Nacha".  Although he tells them that it's a vocabulary and pronunciation exercise, the students still claim that it's a funny song!