Monday, November 4, 2013
French October 2013
Bonjour,
the first two weeks of French have gone well. I've enjoyed getting to know your sons and daughters. The past few weeks we have worked on greetings, colors, and numbers. Last Thursday your child came home with instructions and patterns to make a color-bingo game. This week we are starting to work on the verb "etre" which means "to be" as well as some adjectives. Our focus is on describing ourselves.
Merci
Elizabeth
the first two weeks of French have gone well. I've enjoyed getting to know your sons and daughters. The past few weeks we have worked on greetings, colors, and numbers. Last Thursday your child came home with instructions and patterns to make a color-bingo game. This week we are starting to work on the verb "etre" which means "to be" as well as some adjectives. Our focus is on describing ourselves.
Merci
Elizabeth
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Classes Start Next Tuesday, October 22!!!!!
Greeting Families!
Run for the schools is this weekend (hope you all have your registrations done and running shoes ready!) - so that means classes start TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22!
Classes will be held in the following locations:
German - Mrs. Kriz's room - Thank you Mrs. Kriz!!
French - Mr. Hartman's room - Thank you Mr. Hartman!!
Spanish I - Media Center - Thank you Ms. Madden!!
Spanish II - Mrs. Mulligan - Thank you Mrs. Mulligan!!
Classes are on TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS from 7:45AM - 8:20AM. The change in days is due to Orchestra practice being moved to Wednesday mornings AFTER we had scheduled classes for Mondays and Wednesdays.
Here are our amazing instructors:
German - Tammy Kirchner
French - Elizabeth Carroll (A former WLCP instructor!)
Spanish - Rosario Merida and a second to be announced soon.
Their biographies are on our blog and will be sent home the first week of classes, along with other pertinent information. We are in the process of finalizing our second instructor and we will have that information available as soon as possible.
A few things to remember:
1. If there is a late start or no classes at Hoover, we WILL NOT have classes.
2. Attendance is not mandatory, but appreciated.
3. Class will start promptly at 7:45AM.
4. There will be "homework" but that is so that your students can share with you what they are learning.
5. This is organized by volunteer parents outside of the official school system, so please feel free to contact Ana or Sara with questions or concerns. Mrs. Maxwell will have general information about the program, but we kindly ask that you contact one of us first.
Lastly, a HUGE thank you to you parents for bringing your children to school early twice a week - I know what it's like to get kids out the door! We appreciate your participation and belief that introduction to language early on is so beneficial, generates interest, and hopefully challenges them to pursue language as they progress through the educational system. We are looking forward to seeing everyone next Tuesday!!!!
Run for the schools is this weekend (hope you all have your registrations done and running shoes ready!) - so that means classes start TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22!
Classes will be held in the following locations:
German - Mrs. Kriz's room - Thank you Mrs. Kriz!!
French - Mr. Hartman's room - Thank you Mr. Hartman!!
Spanish I - Media Center - Thank you Ms. Madden!!
Spanish II - Mrs. Mulligan - Thank you Mrs. Mulligan!!
Classes are on TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS from 7:45AM - 8:20AM. The change in days is due to Orchestra practice being moved to Wednesday mornings AFTER we had scheduled classes for Mondays and Wednesdays.
Here are our amazing instructors:
German - Tammy Kirchner
French - Elizabeth Carroll (A former WLCP instructor!)
Spanish - Rosario Merida and a second to be announced soon.
Their biographies are on our blog and will be sent home the first week of classes, along with other pertinent information. We are in the process of finalizing our second instructor and we will have that information available as soon as possible.
A few things to remember:
1. If there is a late start or no classes at Hoover, we WILL NOT have classes.
2. Attendance is not mandatory, but appreciated.
3. Class will start promptly at 7:45AM.
4. There will be "homework" but that is so that your students can share with you what they are learning.
5. This is organized by volunteer parents outside of the official school system, so please feel free to contact Ana or Sara with questions or concerns. Mrs. Maxwell will have general information about the program, but we kindly ask that you contact one of us first.
Lastly, a HUGE thank you to you parents for bringing your children to school early twice a week - I know what it's like to get kids out the door! We appreciate your participation and belief that introduction to language early on is so beneficial, generates interest, and hopefully challenges them to pursue language as they progress through the educational system. We are looking forward to seeing everyone next Tuesday!!!!
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
2013 - 2014 Instructors!
We are excited to welcome our 2013 - 2014 language instructors, Elizabeth Carroll (French), Rosario Merida Prieto (Spanish) and Tammy Kirchner (German)! We have posted biographies of each instructor on the individual language blog page so that you may get to know them a bit. In addition, they will be sending a welcome letter home the first week of classes with more information about the class, expectations, etc.
As always, please don't hesitate to contact us with questions, comments or concerns.
Thank you!
As always, please don't hesitate to contact us with questions, comments or concerns.
Thank you!
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We are in the second week of the semester already. We have started by learning -for those who had not learned that before- to ask and answer what our name is:
- ¿Cómo te llamas?
-Me llamo Rosario
and to greet in a couple of different forms:
-Hola (hello)
-Buenos días (good morning)
-Buenas tardes (good afternoon)
-Buenas noches (good night)
-Adiós (bye-bye)
-Nos vemos (see you)
-¿Cómo estás? (how are you?)
-Bien ¿y tú? (well, and you?)
I know that some of the kids already knew this from previous classes but others did not, so it was important to devote the first week to it. Anyway, since these are expressions that I say ABSOLUTELY EVERY DAY to them, I have no doubt that they will never forget them. My intention is to move on to other things immediately so the ones who have studied Spanish and started from the basic several times don't get bored soon, but for the new ones the repetition is important, so here's your homework: please, greet and make your child greet you in Spanish sometimes when you think of it.
Tomorrow we will talk about halloween a bit (of course) and play "Simon dice" with basic commands like siéntate (sit down), levántate (stand up), dame el lápiz (give me the pencil) and so on, so we set up the basis of a class communication in Spanish.
Gracias y hasta pronto.
Rosario.