Arts and Crafts/Manualidades

Yesterday we had a super heavy duty Geography session in Spanish class. We visited and traveled to a bunch of countries all over the world.

Next day in class both groups (older and younger) will meet to create our hats for the festival. I will have everything you need to make a cool chicken hat, so just come ready to work on your hat AND help others.

Perhaps I will assign each of you (older students) to supervise and help a younger one with their project?

Also, don't forget that soon we will start our already legendary tradition of piñata building for this year's 5 de Mayo.  Below is a simple idea that perhaps we could try in class. We pull a string instead of whacking it with a stick.

Hasta la vista.

Mini piñatas





See you soon.

20 de mayo: Papel Picado y Piñatas.

one broken piñata

Yesterday we worked on present tense conjugations and made some papel picado decorations. During lunch we got to whack three piñatas.

If you wish, finish the assignment provided in class: conjugate any three -ar ending verbs of your choosing in the construction paper chart that you built for the verb hablar (to speak). As promised, there will be some extra candy for those of  you who bring their finished assignment to class on June 3

Enjoy the pictures below, have a great Memorial Day weekend and see you in a couple of weeks!

 ¡Hasta junio!

piñata whacking, very junior division

several samples of papel picado

trébol/shamrock

rombos/diamonds

corazones/hearts

14 de mayo: Conjugations

Piñata de culebra

On Monday students were introduced to conjugating verbs in the present tense. 

Below you will find three videos that approach how to conjugate regular (following a pattern) -ar ending verbs such as the ones we learned in class (refer to photocopies handed in class if you need to)

Please, if you can,  take a look at all of them, even when some of them are a little bit longer than what we are used to in this class. You can also click here, here and here.

Thanks and see you next Monday.

Oh, I almost forgot, if  the weather cooperates we will finally get to break the piñatas during lunch.

22 de abril: Cinco de Mayo.

Today we reviewed some of what we have learned so far in class and continued working on our piñatas.

Next week we will start working on our conjugation of regular verbs (AR-ending group) and will review some recipes for our upcoming celebration: guacamole, salsa, tostadas, churros con chococlate and cranberry-grape juice "sangría"

If you could, please watch these two videos (piñata and Cinco de Mayo) before class next Monday.










¡Gracias y hasta el lunes! (Thanks and see you on Monday!)

15 de abril: Cumpleaños y Piñatas

Today we further practiced how to say dates in Spanish and learned how to express likes and dislikes. We also started building piñatas for our 5 de Mayo "celebration" which will take place during our May 6th class. In the course of the next few weeks we will start planning a vegan/gluten-free "Hispanic" menu to be put together by students in the kitchen during class.

If you could, please watch these two videos ahead of class. The first one is a short birthday song in Spanish by Ricky Martin and the second one a 10 minute documentary on a Piñata making family from Los Angeles (subtitled at times). Please notice how they use the hand held stapler to build their creations and how color paper is cut and over imposed to cover the finished pieces. We will have both (hand-held stapler and decorating paper) in class if you need them.

¡Hasta el lunes!