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3rd Grade Spanish News

 

March/April

We have started our Animales de la Selva unit.  Animals of the jungle.  Students will not only complete a packet full fun jungle activities, but will also get to watch a video called Wild South America - lots of animals and footage unique to the jungles of South America!

3rd grade - Comida, food is our unit and are we having fun with it!  Students are making food posters in class.  Here are the words in this unit. We are not testing at this time. We are working on food related projects, worksheets and stories at this time.  Her is our vocabulary:

Feb -  Students are reading a series of online books that have animation and audio capabilities.  We are enjoying reading and translating the familiar stories such as, Little Red Riding Hood

 We are working on the 4 seasons. Students are translating the color and reading book, Las Estaciones Cambian. The seasons change. 

Objective to learn the four seasons:
Las estaciones - the seasons
1.Otoño- fall  
2.  Invierno - winter
3.Primavera- spring
4.Verano - summer
Students will also learn weather conditions such, it is cold, warm, hot, windy, ect.
Students will translate the paragraphs then have time to color in the pictures for each page.

Here is our new list.  Students are learning "the opposites"  We wil take our time and learn the way the words are pronounced in class.  Students will bring home a worksheet that we will work on in class to help them learn and study the new words. 

  Los opuestos / the opposites

Here is the main list of words we will target.

old- viejo /  young jóven    

alot - mucho / a little - poco  

full - lleno / empty - vacío

poor - pobre / rich - rico

left - izquierda / right - derecha

open - abierto / closed - cerrado

fat - gordo / skinny - flaco

pretty - bonito / ugly - feo

happy - alegre / sad - triste

clean - limpio / dirty- sucio

Students will receive a study guide over prepositions.

Prepositions connect a noun (or pronoun) to something else in a sentence.  Here is the list of words on their guides.

con-with

sobre-over

cerca de-near

delante de-in front of

en-in

sin-without

debajo de- under

lejos de- far

detrás de-in back of, behind

entre-between

We are learning more objects in a classroom and the verb estar,  and how to use it in a sentences to describe the location of an object.  We will combine all of our words to form basic sentences. 

having a fun time learning a song called, I am a pizza - Soy una pizza - we also made a small project to go along with this activity!

TESTING THIS WEEK

Our new classroom vocabulary words are the following :

  1. el pizarrón - the chalkboard
  2. la ventana - the window
  3. la bandera - the flag
  4. el borrador - the eraser
  5. el altavoz - the loudspeaker
  6. las tijeras- scissors
  7. el bolígrafo - the pen
  8. el papel - the paper
  9. el pupitre - the student desk
  10. la papelera - the wastebasket
  11. la mapa - the map
  12. el lápiz- the pencil

We are super excited about our New Text books called Amigos!

We have made puppets so that we can practice our greetings

Breakfast- el desayuno

lunch - el almuerzo

dinner- la cena/la comida

good morning - buenos días

good afternoon- buenas tardes

good evening/ good night - buenas noches

Hello my name is________/Hola, me llamo____

What is your name? ¿Cómo te llamas?

What is his/her name?  ¿Cómo se llama?

Pleased to meet you. Mucho gusto. 

Días de la semana - Days of the week

lunes - Monday

martes - Tuesday

mièrcoles- Wednesday

jueves- Thursday

viernes - Friday

sábado - Saturday

domingo - Sunday

 

      Peal- Friday the 13th

      Larson - Friday the 13th

 

  En el restaurante -

comida food

tenedor fork

cuchara spoon

vaso glass

cereal

el pastel cake

la leche milk

el agua water

el plátano banana

 las uvas grapes

 la ensalada the salad

el helado ice cream

la fresa strawberry

la naranja orange

el pollo chicken

la mantequilla butter

el huevo

apple la manzana

 

 
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