Have a wonderful, safe, restful and happy holiday season!
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Santons de Noel in French Class
Madame Leidhoff's students of first-year French learned about the
celebration of displaying des Santons de Noel. Les Santons were made
famous by Louis Lagnel in the late 1700s in Provence. He sculpted them out of
clay and with the use of molds, they became available to everyone. They are
usually representations of guilds: blacksmith, vine makers, cheese makers,
seamstress etc. Thanks to donations from families of craft items, we were able
to create our own. Many of our creations were more modern jobs… firefighters,
police officers, actors, hula dancers and Disney workers
etc..
Students of second-year French performed musical pieces
and gave cultural presentations of the music. Others chose to cook French and
African dishes and gave cultural presentations in French as well.
¡Cantando con Alegría!
Dr. Jacobson's classes brought holiday cheer to many classrooms as they visited and sang holiday songs in Spanish.
¡Feliz Navaid y Prospero Año Nuevo!
Students in Señor Lawhead's Period 6 class celebrate the end of school for 2013 with a holiday celebration that included holiday songs in Spanish, food and good fellowship.
Talented Student Performs for French Class
Laura Q. plays a French Étude from the Renaissance for Madame Leidhoff's French class in the last week before Winter Break. Note: Laura is an accomplished player who is also working on a Spanish work for two guitars with Señor Lawhead.
Monday, December 16, 2013
French Students Go "Shopping"
Madame Leidhoff's students
of second year French went “shopping” in “stores” created by students.
There was an “epicerie” , “boulangerie” ‘charcuterie” etc… Student were
assessed on
courtesies and language in shopping in these food stores.
Students
of advanced French studied “La Revolution Tranquille” of Quebec and
discussed the cultural icons of this movement. Discussed as well was the
speech Charles
DeGaulle gave to the Quebecois people. Critiques were very insightful.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
It's World Languages Territory!
Students view picture-stories and narrate them!
Students in Señor Lawhead's Spanish 5-6 class tell a story as depicted in a picture-story drawing of their own invention Students later swapped drawings and told their partner's story to show their oral communication skills.
ASL Creating Stories!
Mrs. Redelings' ASL 3-4 class are putting together simple stories, using Unit 19
(Recreational Activities) vocabulary, verb inflection, adverbial facial grammar,
and plurals. They also watched and discussed the documentary, See What I'm
Saying, a film that follow the journeys of four Deaf entertainers. Students
enjoyed the film and took a deeper look into the lives of Deaf people.
Akemashite Omedetou!
'Tis the season for creating Nengajo, or Japanese New Year's cards! All
of Mr. Blackwelder's classes are creating their own nengajo surrounding
this year's theme, Year of the Horse or uma-doshi. The best cards
throughout the Japanese program will be selected in the three categories of
artistic, humorous, and original, and will be sent on the the National Nengajo
Contest. Two years ago, a Scripps student won! Best of luck to the Japanese
students and Happy New Year's to all!
Cursos y La Hora en las clases de 1-2
Señorita Chen's Spanish 1-2 classes are learning to talk
about different class subjects they are taking this year along with how to tell
time in Spanish. They practiced writing out sentences to say what time each of
their class periods take place and they shared them out-loud in class by saying
things like, “Mi clase de español es a las nueve y media de la mañana”.
In Honor of Anchorman 2
Students from Spanish 3-4 with Profe Bañuelos this week created in groups of six
a broadcast sports report that reported the result of a sports competition that
included side interviews with players from the competition. 2 students were
anchormen, 2 were field reporters, and two were players. The performance used
the preterite (past) tense along with how to properly say who beat who with a
score.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
ASL students gloss sentences with each other
Students in Mrs. Redelings's ASL 3-4 practiced their production and receptive skills by signing
and glossing sentences with each other. Sentences included newly learned verb
inflections of repeated action and continuous action.
Spanish 3-4 students tell each other stories with cartoons!
Students in Señor Lawhead's Spanish 3-4 class hold up a stick-figure cartoon to help each other tell the new TPR/S mini-story: "¡Odio Acampar!". Rather than reading it from a paper, students use visual clues only to help them tell the story.
For more information on TPR/S methods, check out these links:
Busy week in Dr. Jacobson's Spanish classes!
Students in Dr. Jacobson's class have recently demonstrated grammatical
competency of the present, past, future and imperfect tenses through an exam
that also included questions regarding the vocabulary from their current unit of
study. Students in each class are currently working on a skit that each group will
present the week before the holiday begins, some using phrases from Dr.
Jacobson's book 'Spanish Across America: A Ready-To-Use-Resource.' Spanish 7-8
and AP students are writing an argumentative essay. Additionally, students are
practicing holiday carols in Spanish they will sing to schoolmates as they visit
classes around the campus in a few weeks. On Friday, students enjoyed a
traditional Mexican treat of 'buñuelos'.
Profe Bañuelos visita Jerusalén, Israel!
Japanese students complete performance assessment!
Mr. Blackwelder's (Blackwelder sensei) Japanese 3-4 classes have just completed
a performance assessment that included 1) how to introduce yourself on the
phone, 2) giving a formal invitation in Japanese that includes a date, place,
time, and event type, and 3) effectively and politely declining or accepting a
formal invitation. For many skits, students used the excuse of sickness to get
out of unwanted invitations, including a description of at least three common
symptoms. Excellent performances all around!
Students rewarded with video for high grades!
Señorita Chen has a test policy for her classes that states: if 80% of the class gets 80% or
higher on the chapter test, the class gets to watch a Disney movie (in Spanish
with English subtitles). Since most of her classes were so close to achieving
that 80% she decided to bend the rules a little bit. On Tuesday all students made
corrections to anything they missed on the test, even if they got an A
or a B so that they would be worthy of watching “Buscando A Nemo” this
week.
Pen-Pals in Señora Trott's Class!
Señora Trott's Spanish 1-2
students have just written letters to their pen-pals describing their perfect
date. Using these descriptions their pen-pals will play matchmaker. This
activity uses nouns, adjectives, verbs and descriptions learned so far this
year. Spanish 3-4 students are preparing posters, written and oral
presentations that describe a Spanish-speaking country they visited last year.
This will reinforce the use of the preterite tense. For example: I ate paella
in Valencia last summer.
Happy St. Nicolas Day!
Madame Leidhoff's students of French learned the
Legend of St. Nicolas and received goodies in their shoes today.
Students of first year French practiced their numbers into
thousands by playing French Monopoly entirely in French while students of second year French are gearing up for cultural
projects of Food or Music from the French-speaking world.
Advanced French students read six different short stories
from Maupassant and did group presentations as well as assessments of them.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Welcome back! School begins Dec 2!
Bonne l'Action de Grace!
Madame Leidhoff's students of second and third year French wrote guided
essays on the things they are grateful for in their lives and the holiday
traditions of their families.
Today, students of Advanced French participated in a
discussion activities on current events, social issues and opinions of today’s
world.
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