Students Sing in Spanish!

Señor Lawhead's class sings the well-known song of the Mexican Revolution "La Cucaracha".  Along with singing, students learned a bit about Mexican history and who "La Cucaracha" was.

Vocabulary Quizzes y Mejores Amigos Collages

Señora Trott's classes have just completed their first vocabulary quizzes.  In addition, Spanish 1-2 students are preparing their first oral presentations this week.  They will have a short conversation with another student in front of the class.  The project is called Hola, ¿Cómo estas?

Spanish 3-4 students are also preparing a collage of pictures that depict their best friend or a special family member. Using only this visual clue, students will describe this person to the rest of the class.

"Tu" Command Skits

Students in Spanish 3-4 with Profe Bañuelos this week created and performed their own skits in which they used affrimative "tú" commands to give orders to another person.  This group here played characters from the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. The characters featured were Spongbob, Patrick, Squidword, and Mr. Crab.
 

Madame Leidhoff is available for tutoring!

Madame Leidhoff's students of French 5-6 presented themselves discussing their cultural origins, memories of their childhood, current interests and passions, and what they hope to achieve in the future….

Students of French 2-3 will read Un Conte de Madagascar, Ventre-Rond.  (Round Stomac)

 French Language and Culture Advanced Placement is  taking an older exam to practice for the test in May.

Remember! Madame Leidhoff is in her room every day at lunch to tutor or drill for the AP exam.

Poesía, Repaso y Ensayo - Busy start to year!

Students in Dr. Jacobson's Spanish AP classes watched the video 'Jovenes discapacitados se reunen a disfrutar de poesías' following up the activity with a class discussion regarding the personal and intercultural advantages of self-expression through poetry.
Spanish 7-8 students reviewed the imperfect tense together through descriptions of childhood experiences.
Spanish 5-6 students are using text information to write an essay comparing and contrasting the United States and Argentina.

Sharing the Gift of Teaching & Learning

SRHS World Languages Department teachers speak to parents about their expectations for the coming year. Parents followed their student's schedule at the 2013-2014 Open House, Thursday, September 19, 2013.*

*It is possible that the district server (sandi.net) is blocking Photobucket where this video is stored.  If so, you will not be able to view it on the SDUSD network.

Miss Lilian Chen joins World Languages!

Miss Lilian Chen has joined World Languages teaching five classes of Spanish 1-2 in Room 255.  She is lately from Irvine, CA where her family lives.  Born in a bilingual household, Miss Chen's native language is Spanish and her credential allows her to teach English as well.  This weekend, Miss Chen is in Yosemite on her very first backpacking trip!  Welcome, Miss Chen! 

Total Physical Response w/Storytelling

Señor Lawhead's classes got their first and second tastes of TPR/S.  This oral/aural technique helps students feel comfortable in speaking Spanish and telling stories to one another.  Readers are encouraged check out the following links for more information about TPR/S.

www.blaineraytprs.com

www.benslavic.com

French Classes Begin New Year!

Madame Leidhoff's students of French 1-2 learned verbs using TPR/S and played Jacques a dit.  This is the French version of Simon Says. They also learned the culture of salutation in France.

Students of French 3-4 learned of Paris and its structure of arrondissements.  They are gearing up for a cultural project on the monuments of Paris.
Students of the advanced class read Gascony Siempe's Le petit Nicolas, Le Chouette bouquet, and represented it.  

Cowboy Culture in the U.S. and Latin America

As a part of Spirit Week, students at SRHS on Tuesday 9/18/2013 dressed up in cowboy attire.  Profe Bañuelos used this to teach that cowboy culture in the U.S. was deeply influenced by the Mexican cowboys (vaqueros) starting in the in 1800s.  Profe also played Mexican música norteña, which is popular in vaquero regions of México.  Cowboys also exist in other countries in Latin America such as the llaneros in Colombia/Venezuela and the gauchos in Argentina/Uruguay/Paraguay.

Open House Thursday, September 19, 2013!

 

World Language teachers will be ready to greet parents this Thursday at Scripps Ranch High School's Open House event.  After some preliminary activities and sharing of information, parents will follow their student's schedule which will allow teachers to give a short presentation and make appointments for further questions and concerns.  We hope to see you there! 

 

SCHEDULE

5:00-5:40 pm Counselor presentation to parents of ninth graders and new students.

5:30-6:00 pm the HIV/AIDS and Sex Education Material Preview in the Staff Dining Room.

            5:40 - 5:50 pm              Color Guard and Band

                        5:50 – 5:54 pm             Welcome – Quad

                        6:00 – 6:10 pm             Period 1

                        6:16 – 6:26 pm             Period 2

                        6:32 – 6:42 pm             Period 3

                        6:48 – 6:58 pm             Period 4

                        7:04 – 7:14 pm             Period 5

                        7:20 – 7:30 pm             Period 6



School Begins! World Languages Sees Some Changes!

WELCOME!

BienvenidosBienvenu  Hajimemashita

The 2013-2014 year has begun and the upper 200 building reverberates with the sounds of Japanese, French, Spanish and the quiet of American Sign Language. World Languages is as sad to say farewell to the remarkable Ms. Andrea Lemaitre as it is delighted to welcome Miss Lilian Chen who comes to us from Irvine, CA. to teach five sections of Spanish 1-2! The beginning of this year has been fraught with challenges from surviving the heat and staffing the increase in Spanish courses to making the implementation of the new student-accounting program, Power School, work.  We are hoping that parents and students will have on-line access to grades soon and that teachers can stay ahead of the learning curve to make them available.  Good news is that classes are capped at 36 students maximum and that means better efficiency and more contact between students and their teachers.  Also, this year (we are told) the installation of Promethean Boards will finally begin for our department.  Measurements were taken last year and it is projected that the boards will be installed in the Spring.

Welcome students and parents to the new school year!  The World Languages Department is looking forward to sharing its love of worldwide languages in a learning partnership with all of you.

Summer Travels for Profe Bañuelos

Profe Bañuelos is back from another adventure in South America over the summer which included in countries of Brazil, Paraguay, Perú, and Colombia.  In addition to teaching Spanish 3-4, Profe will teach Spanish 5-6 for the first time at SRHS starting on Thursday September 12.  Profe looks forward to the new adventure this 2013-2014 school year.