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¡Hola Clase!

Este semana, this week, we focused on people and introductions.

Here's a good video which reviews greetings and tells how to introduce someone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sppwmKthro

We also discussed our pronouns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gg1soO1CUQ

We have our first verb. Ser = to be. Remember, this is a permanent state of being. “I am from Michigan,” not “I am happy today.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6TjefGxfPY

We reviewed our two words for the – el and la. This video reviews that and adds on plural words. This will help with your homework pages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPXZqCsMFM

We also added the phrase “¿De dónde eres?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bFRTm4J7PM

Which means that we can now exchange names, ask how someone is, and ask from where someone comes. We're really speeding through our lessons!

¡Hasta la semana proxima (Until next week)!

Saludos, Greetings

¡Hola clase!

Este semana, this week, we have worked on our letters, dialogue, and we started pronouns. We also discussed the Mexican Independence Day of September 15 and 16. To review please work on the sheet I sent home and view the following videos and websites. This way we can practice our Spanish while apart and learn more while together.

Your first video is the alphabet song. We will review this again next week.
Alphabet Song

Next we'll look at the vocabulary involved in greeting each other. As a warning: remember we discussed that in Latin America people who know each other often greet each other on the cheek. They will comment on this.
Spanish Greetings

Last we began personal pronouns. Those words that take the place of the name of people, places, or things. We will explore this more and more later, but here is a fun and short video to start learning our pronouns.
Remember, even if there is on boy in the group, ellas (they, girls) becomes ellos (they, boys or mixed). Also we skipped over that we can have nosotras (we/us, girls) if there are no boys at all to make it nosotros (we, boys or mixed.
Personal Pronouns

Remember we also have a page from class so that we can practice our greetings on paper also. Please let me know which way of reviewing you prefer. Do you like the videos? Would you like more links to websites for practicing? Do you like the worksheets? We will discuss this in class next week also.

Hasta la semana proxima,

Señora DeBoer

Course Overview

Spanish, or any other language, is not a dry subject which can be simply learned by memorization of facts. Communication is an essential part of life which is best learned by using it. In this class we will be singing songs, playing games, acting out... and all the while using the Spanish we learn to communicate with each other! The best way to learn any language is the way we learned our first - to try it out and play with words. From day one we will be practicing basic conversation, and we will build upwards from there. Along the way we will learn of those who speak Spanish as wee travel through Mexico, Central and South America, over to Spain, and we will not forget our own country here.

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Expectations: Most of our work will be completed in class. Students will receive some review for home so parents can see what is going on and so that we can remember our language throughout the week. We will also have one large cultural project to do at home each semester.

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2013-2014 Projects:

First semester (Cultural Overview): Country Project

Second semester (Semester in Mexico): Mexican Market Project

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Required Materials:

One 3-ring binder

Index Cards for Vocabulary