Thursday was a pretty good day with Spanish 5 finishing up our Intro to Latinoamérica, Spanish III testing on los edificios y la ciudad and Spanish 2 finally getting through all of those idiomatics that should have been mastered in Spanish I. Again those long periods of time between Spanish I and Spanish 2 really impact advancement on the proficiency continuum. In talking with my viejo today, he mentioned that there never should be more than 1 semester between level 1 and level 2 of the language and if there is then the students should have to take some type of refresher. Great idea - but how can we possibly implement this?
My Spanish 3 students are doing some authentic reading and are having difficulties. They complain that they do not understand. I have the interpretive tasks and improvement in these tasks as part of my goal but I think we need to look at these from level 1 on and see how we can strengthen listening and reading tasks. I already have some interesting data from the first semester in terms of my goal and hope to improve on what I did during the first semester as we move forward.
Thursday evening we had a parents meeting for the 8th grade students coming up to the high school from the middle school next year. It was exciting to see so many parents and interested students in our program.
Once again they are predicting cold and snow during the upcoming week. I cannot wait to see spring!
La vieja
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