Spanish Magnet I students will begin to build their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills by activities such as:
- learning to talk about themselves, their families, and the activities they like to do
- talking about places to go
- describingthe weather.
- talking about their school day, including subjects, materials, schedules and activities
- learning about Hispanic foods and cultural customs
- creating a restaurant day were students order food in our classroom restaurant
- learning to follow a recipe to make traditional cultural dishes
- talkingabout health and cultural beliefs connected to wellness
- using the present tense accurately to build sentences
- performing skits and plays about a variety of topics
- learning songs in Spanish
- making a variety of computer-based projects using Photo Story, Power Point and Microsoft publisher to create posters or ads.
Magnet 2 Spanish students will continue to develop their listening, speaking, readingand writing skills by activities such as:
- expanding their vocabulary to talk about their interests, describe themselves, and talk about their homes and their families.
- learning to talk about cities and learn to talk about how Spanish-speaking cities are different than the averageAmerican city.
- expanding their vocabulary to talk about where things are located, learn map skills
- learning to understand and give commands togive and follow directions.
- learning the past tenses to talk about things they have done/seen, sporting events they have attended and all that happened there, and what they were like as children.
- learning to talk about foods and order in a restaurant.
- learning how use/follow kitchen commands in order to follow a recipe.
- studying and taking virtual tours of Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Segovia, and San Juan.
- creating multimedia projects on a variety of topics.
Spanish Magnet 3 students will extend theirspeaking, listening, reading and writing skills by activities such as:
- working more with the past tenses to better discuss events of the past.
- learning vocabulary and structures to discuss problems and conflicts with friends and family, ask for and give advice
- learning to use the subjunctive to make recommendations and to suggest possible solutions
- learningto employ the conditional tense to say what they would do in the samesituation.
- learningto use the future tense to talk about what they will do
- using the passive se, comparatives andsuperlatives to describe a variety of scenarios
- talking about art and architecture, including viewing and discussing a variety of art by artists from around the Spanish-speaking world and taking virtual tours of a multitude of Museums exhibiting art by Hispanic painters, sculptors, etc.
- talkingabout challenges they have faced and overcome, people and events that haveinfluenced them, and how they have grown/changed.
- talkingabout their skills, abilities and interests, and their plans for the future.
- studyingand taking virtual tours of Spain, the Caribbean, the Southwest, y the Andes.
- making PhotoStories; creating, directing, filming and producing telenovelas; and creating multimedia presentations.
- extending, accepting and refusing invitations in culturally appropriate ways
- performing skits and plays about a variety of topics
- learning songs in Spanish