Students are learning the  breakfast foods. Along with making a menu, they are also working on a project called the Supermercado.  They are working hard to create a poster size foods advertisement for their stores.  All in Spanish!

A big Thank you to all the wonderful students and their parents for all the nice cards and gifts.  Each one was so thoughtful and the treats were amazing.

Opposites are the next theme we are working on in class students have been given a guide worksheet to study from.  Just the marked pair of words will be on the test. 

alto- tall    bajo - short

grande- big   pequeño- small

old - viejo     joven - young

active - ambicioso    perezoso- lazy

interesante - interesting   aburrido - boring

guapo/bonito - pretty     feo-ugly

serio - serious     cómico - funny/silly

delgado/flaco - skinny/thin   gordo - fat

simpático - nice/friendly       antipática - mean/unfriendly

inteligente - intelligent -     tonto-dumb

4th grade will now have our Bingo Party using all 50 new words we have learned! (This Week)

3rd Bingo list has been passed out and will be tested in the same manner as before.  I have a PP to practice to the left of this page.

Thank you to Sydney Schumacher who so generously donated the book

Botón dormilón

Muchas Gracias!

We are working on a book we read called en el mar- in the sea

Our projects will be to make an ocean scene using the words we learned. 

 From THE BINGO LIST

We are now getting ready to test over the 2nd group of 15 words form the Bingo list

1.  el pupitre - the desk

2. Los zapatos- shoes

3.  los dientes-teeth

4. el pájaro- the bird

5.  la bicicleta - bike

6.  el barco- the boat

7.  la silla - the chair

8.  el caballo - the horse

9.  la gorra- the cap

10.  el vestido- the dress

11.  el cepillo- the brush

12.  la oreja- the ear

13.  la mano - the hand

14.  la cassa - the house

15.  el perro- the dog

Our 1st 15 words make up our vocabulary list.  Students have practiced saying and writing words  by writing sentences and making a picture using the words they also labeled the picture. 

 Our Missions study is now complete.  We will now move on to the 50 nouns and Bingo unit.  We will learn 50 words and at the end of the unit we will play Bingo and celebrate our end of unit accomplishment!

¡Hola otra vez!  

Hello again!  What  fun things we will do this year in Spanish!  Students are so excited to do the hands on "projects" during Spanish class.  4th grade is really a wonderful year to not only learn Spanish but live it as well.  Before we dive in though, we will practice last years material.  We will learn the history how the Spanish language diffused into Alto California via the Catholic Missions. 

Get ready, set, and learn.

     We have started our first unit - The 21 Missions of California.  Students will  receive a packet to go  along with the interactive unit.  Here is a list of the first vocabulary words in Spanish based on this unit.     Spanish Words:

There are not many words on this list, just a few that were very important to every day mission life. They are:

Padre---father, used both for parents and priests

Presidio---fort, a military zone that served to protect all Spanish settlements in the area; there were four in California

Pueblo---town or city, they sold the goods produced by the missions

Plaza---central sqaure, the main gathering place

Lavandería---a laundry, a place where the women went to wash all the clothes

Dormitorio---a dormitory, a place where people live and sleep

Cocina---kitchen, where the food was prepared

Iglesia---church, the main place of worship

After the test we will continue the guided interactive tour.

This week of Set 14th We will write a native American prespective of the missions in class.