"¡Muchas Gracias! to the Hoffer family

Señor Lawhead and his students would like to say a sincere:  "¡Muchas gracias!" to the Hoffer family for its generous donation of office supplies for the classroom.  In these days of severe budget cuts we are very grateful for their thoughfulness and support!

ASL students volunteer at Deaf Community Services picnic!

Six ASL students from Mrs. Smith's class volunteered to assist the Deaf Community Services (DCS) "End of Summer Picnic". They helped run games and serve food.  Once again, our signing Falcons did an outstanding job and impressed DCS. The agency has Deaf Awareness Day on October 2 and their Holiday Party in December.  They've asked the students to volunteer again!

French 1-2 students learning "beaucoup"!

Madame Leidhoff's students of first-year French have learned the calendar, salutations, numbers to thirty and classroom vocabulary. They have discussed accents and discussed the greeting in Senegal and France. Students are also learning about the French-speaking country of Morocco.

American Sign Language very busy!

Mrs. Redeling's classes have been learning how to fingerspell, sign numbers and produce correct facial grammar for different types of questions.  Introducing oneself, asking for simple personal information and learning the parameters of signs have been the focus of the first two weeks.

¡Viva México! Sp 3-4 students learn about its Bicentennial!

Señora Trott's Spanish 3-4 classes are creating a travel brochure describing events occurring in Mexico this year, 2010. Mexico is celebrating both the Bicentennial of its Independence Day (September 16, 1810) and the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution (November 20, 1910). This travel brochure will highlight some of the many events planned this year in celebration of these important anniversaries. ¡Viva México!

Mini-project finished and hard work begun in Spanish 5-6

Mr. Stanko's Spanish 5-6 class just completed a mini-project, "Todo lo mío," reviewing how to talk about themselves, their families, friends and activities. They are now reviewing those "oh-so-fun" regular verbs and the "deadly" stem changer verbs.

Bonjour! Au Revoir! Un, deux, trois...trente!

Madame Leidhoff's students wrapped up their reviews this week and students of French 1-2 know their numbers to 30, salutations and days of the week!

¡A Cantar! Spanish students sing!

Mr. Lawhead's students finished the second week of school with song!  With Mr. Lawhead playing the guitar, students sang:  De Colores, La Cucaracha and Pobre Nacha.

Review and Déjeuner du Matin

Madame Frederickson's French 5-6 students are reviewing the past tense via a song, a campus walk, and poems. They'll sequence and act out "Déjeuner du Matin" and give the poem a different title. After reading "Le Message" they'll write and illustrate a poem containing their "message."

Vive le francais!

Madame Leidhoff's students of French are setting up their Interactive Notebooks, getting their textbooks and playing icebreaker games. We are off to a wonderful beginning!

2010-2011 has begun. Welcome new colleagues!

Scripps Ranch High School World Languages Department has had an excellent start! Teachers and students are excited!  Follow this blog to see what exciting activities our classes are invovled in each week!

We welcome two new teachers to the department: 

Mr. Edward Stanko, Spanish 3-4 & 5-6

Ms. Debbie Redelings, ASL 1-2