Finals Over and a New Beginning!

Not much activity this week as students prepare for and take their final exams.  Here is Señor Lawhead's 5th period class hard at work Friday morning.  This Monday, students will first report to their CORE class for their Spring Semester schedules and then continue with periods 1-6.   It's a new beginning and students can improve (or maintain) their own high standards of excellence in learning. Welcome to the 2012-2013 Spring Semester!

Alfajores Argentinos

Student's in Spanish 3-4 with Profe Bañuelos were put in a competition when learning how use the present progressive tense with a reflexive verb like, "me estoy cepillando los dientes OR estoy cepillándome los dientes" (I'm brushing my teeth). The first five students who correctly wrote a sentence won an alfajor argentino, Argentina's national desert. They have different variations, however the classic one has dulce de leche, a sweetened milk that comes out like a caramalized sugar.

Finals Week is here! Good luck, students!

 

After a restful Martin Luther King holiday, students will return for a full day of classes on Tuesday, January 22.  Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be minimum days and students will be dismissed at 11:30 AM.  On Wednesday, Jan. 23, periods 1 & 3 will meet; Thursday, Jan. 24, periods 2 & 4 will meet; Friday, Jan. 25, periods 5 & 6 will meet.  Good luck, students, your teachers and parents are rooting for you!

The Spring Semester begins on January 28.

Spanish 1-2 students map "Ideal School"

Students in Señora Lemaitre's class are demonstrating their understanding of the use of "Estar" and prepositions by creating a map of their "Ideal School" and describing where each place in the school (the office, the gym, the cafeteria, etc...) are located. Students work in pairs and create the map, then describe it front of the class.

By now, students should have the language ingredients to create original sentences and communicate basic information about themselves, their activities, and their school.

¡Es un Robo! skits in Spanish

Students in Ms. Ranzolin's Spanish 3-4 class gave a presentation on their daily routine, everyone did a fantastic job! In Ms Ranzolin's 5-6 class, students wrote and performed to the class a skit about a robbery incorporating grammer they learned this semester. They put a lot of work into them, and the skits were very funny.

Span 5-6 students prepare for end of semester

Señor Lawhead's Spanish 5-6 classes are busy finishing up the "lesser" units before the end of the Fall Semester.  This week it was "Por vs. Para" and "Verbs like gustar". 

Next week, students who have come up short on the oral testing to qualifiy for an A will have the opportunity for one more oral test.  Sign-up sheets will be available and the extra oral test will be available during finals week (January 23, 24, 25).

Posters help prepare for final exams

In preparation for final exams, Dr. Jacobson's students prepared a poster summarizing a specific gram
matical structure and a game to help classmates review the material. Additionally, students have been practicing for the vocabulary, grammar and reading comprehension sections of the final exam through open-ended and multiple choice questions. AP students attended to increasingly lengthier, complex listening comprehension passages, answering detailed questions related to both narratives and interviews.

"La Tecnolgie" discussions in French

Madame Leidhoff's Advanced Placement students are learning vocabulary of the themes of Innovations and Technology. We have discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the KINDLE, cheating in class with the iPhones, new projects from Stanford and more. We will prepare for a Socratic Seminar discussion on the question of Technology and Humanity.

 

French 3-4 students learned of the Caves of Lascaux -their discovery by curious boy after WWII. Students learned much vocabulary on geography and art. We are also reviewing forms of the past tense.

ASL Students Preparing for Final Exam

Mrs. Redelings's ASL 1 students have been gearing up for their first semester comprehension final. Students have been reviewing vocabulary from Units 1 - 8, from introductions and family vocabulary to classifiers and question facial grammar. They'll be ending the week by going over Deaf history and culture.

ASL 3 students have been presenting the lives of famous Deaf people. This week's list of famous people include Tom Humphries and Carol Padden, the authors of our primary texts, Learning ASL and A Basic Course in ASL.