Fantasy Notebook Project Shared in Class!

 

Señor Lawhead's Spanish 5-6 classes celebrated completing their Fantasy Scrapbooks and shared them with each other in class.  Students chose a fantasy life, produced a scrapbook of images and realia and wrote a 300+ word autobiography.  Students could be anyone and anything!

Bento in Japanese Classes!

Mr. Blackwelder's Japanese 5-6 classes are celebrating the end of the school year by designing and creating their own Japanese bento, or boxed lunch. Each lunch is the topic of an oral presentation which covers a "bento essentials" checklist including theme, number of food groups, wrapping, usage of color, shape, and positioning of food, asymmetry, inclusion of odd-numbered items (as odd numbers are lucky in Japan), etc.

Congrats to all 5-6 seniors on graduation!!

Finals Approach & French Wedding Project

Students of all levels are reviewing for their finals in Madame Leidhoff's classes.
  

Students of Advanced French are working in finishing their French Wedding project...

Spanish 5-6 & 7-8 Reviewing

Spanish 5-6 and 7-8 students in Dr. Jacobson's classes are reviewing grammar, engaging in literacy development activities through reading, writing and critical thinking activities in textbooks.  

Additionally, students engaged in listening, reading and vocabulary development through video clips and practice quizzes at: http://spanishear.com/

Students' fluency was assessed through the activity '¿Qué dice?' where students relate what they perceive a person to be saying in a picture projected for the class to see, adding to one another's responses through a continued activity of   '¡Pase!', as students pass their paper to a partner.

Careers, Cyrano & Cheese in French Classes!

Madame Leidhoff's students of second year French are learning professions and wrote an essay on their futures.

Students of third year French completed their productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and are contributing to a cheese tasting next week with cultural presentation on the origins and legends of Rocquefort and the success of La vache qui rit.

Planning reviews and skits about restaurants

Students in Ms. Ranzolin's Spanish 5-6 class are working on planning a lesson that they will teach the class in order to review for the final. In the 3-4 classes, students are working on putting together a funny skit about ordering food in a restaurant, which they will be presenting to the class next week.

Mi Marciano Project & Writing Books in Spanish

Señora Trott's Spanish 1-2 classes have just finished individual class presentations called Mi Marciano.  My Martian.  This project reviewed almost the entire year of grammar and vocabulary.  Projects were creative and often very funny.
Spanish 3-4 students finished writing books called Cuando Era Niño/a.These books told the story of their lives using the preterite and imperfect tenses.  Students used photos to show important events
in their lives.  They read their story to the class.  Classmates learned many new things about each other.

Language in context- it's how we learn best.

Señora Lemaitre's Spanish 1/2 class had a "Rastro"  or "Mercado" in the style of the flea markets of Spain.  Students made commercials on video advertising what they were going to sell.  Using Monopoly money, the mercado was open for business on Wednesday and students negotiated prices, made purchases and sold hand made artisan goods while employing all acquired vocabulary thus far.  Afterwards, students exclaimed how much fun that was, and shared the new vocabulary they learned. 

Fantasy Scrapbook Projects Almost Complete

Student's in Señor Lawhead's Spanish 5-6 classes are putting the finishing touches on their Fantasy Scrapbooks.  Students have chosen to be whomever (or whatever) they wish to be and have written an autobiography and put together a scrapbook of pictures, realia and memorabilia of their fantasy lives. The autobiography will show students' mastery of the two major concepts for the year:  Imperfect vs. Preterite and the Subjunctive and the scrapbook part is "muy divertido"!

Ecuador: The Middle of the World

Spanish 1-2 students with Profe Bañuelos completed a modified version of chapter 5.1 that covered ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.) and culturally highlighted the South American country of Ecuador.  Profe shared his photos from his trip there in 2009.  Pictured is Profe with one half of his body in the northern hemisphere and the other half in the southern hemisphere.