LA PRIMAVERA - THE SPRING               MARCH -  2016
   
Third graders  - 
 
The third graders are continuing to practice the alphabet and numbers.   They learned phrases on the weather and seasons.  Que tiempo hace?  Te gusta el verano?  Hace frio, hace calor, and more phrases on the weather.  
They also learned to express "how they are feeling" and how to ask each other "what's the matter?"  -  I am cold, warm, hungry, thirsty, sleepy, in pain and feeling warm. 
Now, again they are working on numbers.... Learning to ask "what time is it?"  Working  on numbers 1-60.

During April, they will be describing pieces of clothing and parts of the body. 

Fourth graders   -  
 
 Unit 5
The fourth graders enjoyed learning and reviewing the expressions on the weather.  It's hot, it's cold, and learning the seasons.  They are also learning to say, "What are you going to do?", "What do you like?, and other phrases in Spanish.      Also, they covered talking about likes and dislikes.  What do you like?

Unit 6
 In this unit they will be covering: the months, talking about their birthday, action words like; to swim, to dance, to walk, to paint, and other words.  What do you want to do?  How often do you do something?  These questions are part of this unit.

Fifth graders 
 
Unit 7  -  In this unit they covered chores around the house, household appliances,  and the necessary tools to clean the house.  What we do at home?

Unit 8  -   This unit deals with things on the table .  The utensils, sugar, cream, napkins, salt, pepper and many more words.   Fruits like apples, cherries, pears, sandia, fresas bananas and other fruits are part of this unit.  They also learned two verbs, decir and traer (to say and to bring).

Unit 9    -  Breakfast -  Que hay de desayuno? This unit covers what we eat for breakfast and the drinks.  They will learn to say, eggs, cereal, toast and oatmeal.  They will also learn vocabulary words for lunch and dinner.  They will review, me gusta and no me gusta.  I like and I don't like. 

Sixth graders   - 
 
Unit 6 - In this unit, they learned about traveling by air.  Vocabulary: schedule, suitcase, pilot, airplanes arrivals & departures, on time, late, early, flight, to fly, and to land.  The unit covered many important phrases regarding traveling by air.
The verb HACER (to do/to make) was introduced.

Unit 7    -   In this unit, they will cover all the necessary vocabulary inside the hotel.  Hotel  phrases and the names of things inside the rooms.  Also, hot and cold water.
This will be an easy lesson on the things we need in a hotel. 

Unit 8  -  The Bank and Restaurant
In this unit they will learned vocabulary relating to people and things at a bank when they are traveling.  The restaurant vocabulary is very easy.  We will create dialogues in a restaurant setting.

The seven key questions will play a big part with these units.  Where, when, how, how many, why, who and what.