Wednesday, 28 October, 2009

October 28th, 2009

German students watched commericials, in German, about food today to reinforce their food vocabulary.  They also ahad an activity with their food vocabulary.

Draw it

Spanish students received their food vocabulary list today and filled in the missing vocab words by watching videos on the food and culture.

Comida vocabulary

French students had several verbal activities to practice using their food vocabulary then played the card game of War! (French educational version) to practice their numbers.

Tuesday, 27 October, 2009

October 27th, 2009

Everyone needs to remember to stay healthy by washing your hands, covering your sneezes and coughs with your arm and DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL WITH A FEVER! As a parent, I know it’s hard to take off work but you have to keep sick children at home.  Thank-you!

German students played food bingo all class period and there is no homework for tonight. 

Spanish students did a quick activity to practice their adjectives and then received a project that is due tomorrow.

Poema Diamante

French students watched a video on French Cuisine.

Everyone has a quiz this Friday.

Monday, 26 October, 2009

October 26th, 2009

German students received the food vocabulary list today and played war to practice their numbers in German.  Have them explain to you how to play and give it a go!  It’s fun!!

German food vocabulary

Spanish students learned about articles and adjectives through video shorts and worksheets.

Spanish articles 1b3         Spanish adjectives 1b4      Spanish adjectives1b2      Spanish adjectives1b1

French students worked a little more on the weather and months with a worksheet and then received the vocabulary sheet about food.

weather and months worksheet French             french food

Friday, 23 October, 2009

October 23rd, 2009

German students learned about Oktoberfest today.  Do you know what this festival is really about?

Spanish students finished the Ecuador video and then learned a little about some of Mexico’s most traditional food.  Would you like a grasshopper taco today?

French students are actually learning what was in the post from yesterday because I went home ill.  They do have a project to complete over the weekend.

Four seasons Project and Rubric

Thursday, 22 October, 2009

October 22nd, 2009

German students worked on their Wunderbar Mich book project.  It is due tomorrow.

Spanish students traveled to Ecuador (through a video).

French students received their vocabulary three worksheet, learned a song about the days and learned how to tell time iin French including the 24 hour clock.

French vocab 3                  French days song               quand

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

October 21st, 2009

German students watched a fun video of Ich habe es gern (I like it).  After the video, they received the Wünderbar Mich project (due on Friday).

Wunderbar Mich Book

Spanish students went to the computer lab today to create a weather forecast, in Spanish.

Weather Project

French students visited Morocco today with Ian (a video with worksheet).

Tuesday, 20 October, 2009

October 20th, 2009

We are half way through with this rotation.  Please expect to see a progress report on Thursday.  It will need to be signed and returned for a grade by Friday.

German students continued to watch the video on Germany and Austria.

Spanish students had a verbal activity and then a writing activity in Spanish.  If they had spare time, they were to work on their quiz corrections.

weather activity8PE           writing activity11 1A

French students had a verbal activity, audio activity and a grammar worksheet to learn how to make a sentence negative.

 negative sentences

Monday, 19 October, 2009

October 19th, 2009

We are almost half way through the second rotatation and the first trimester!  Isn’t incredible how quickly time flies?

German students visited Germany today with Mr. Rick Steves (in a video).  We will be continuing this video tomorrow.  Also, students will receive quiz number two tomorrow and the corrections are due this Freitag.

Spanish students, quiz corrections are due this viernes.  Please do them!  Today we learned about nouns and verbs.  We learned that nouns have a gender.  They are either masculine or feminine.  Also, there are three types of verbs.  They are -ar, -er and -ir.  More to come tomorrow!

French students were very lucky and were able to visit Paris today!  They received their quiz #2 and corrections for that is due this vendredi also.

Wednesday, 14 October, 2009

October 14th, 2009

I hope everyone is doing well on these dreary days, I’m so tired!!  Where is the sun? Anyways…

German students learned how to use a bilingual dictionary and watched another episode of Hennings Haus.

dictionary-German

Spanish students finished learning how to tell time with a listening activity and two worksheets.

Spanish Time quiz Page 45              time worksheet

French students began their first project today.  It will help them to practice their vocabulary two worksheet.  They will be spending today and tomorrow on creating a book of their likes/dislikes in French!

Le Livre de Mes Goûts

Tuesday, 13 October, 2009

October 13th, 2009

German students reviewed the quizzes from Friday and have until this Friday to complete quiz corrections.  They also worked on the Haus Packet to wrap up their first vocabulary list.

Spanish students also reviewed their quiz from Friday and have until this Friday to complete quiz corrections.  They learned how to tell time today.

   Time en puntoPage 36           Time cuarto and media Page 38               Time menos Page 40

French students reviewed their quiz from Friday and also have until this Friday to complete quiz corrections. Today they recieved their vocabulary two sheet, watched the chapter video and recieved an assignment where they have to write to a pen-pal (pretend).

French vocab2                Pen pal letter I67