OLG Newsletter – May 21st

Hello Parents,

It’s been a blessing and honor teaching your children this year at OLG. I’ve been so happy every time I’ve stepped into your children’s classrooms because they have always been so excited to learn new songs, new vocabulary words, greetings and all the fun things I am so passionate for them to learn. They are continuing to feel more confident when they are speaking and learning Spanish. Thank you for having wonderful children. My seventh graders, thank you for coming so early to class and always being happy and ready to learn.

Thank you for a wonderful first year at OLG!

The Pre-K Class

It’s been a wonderful experience getting to meet the youngest in the school.  What little active learners they have been all year long.  They have been learning the colors, numbers, letters, family members, their own names, the days of the week and feelings. This month we focused on la primavera vocabulary and songs.

Kindergarteners

It’s been a pleasure and a joy to see the kindergartners enthusiastically singing as a warm up to start up our Spanish classes this year.  The kindergartners learned, discovered and sang songs in Spanish. This month we integrated the famous books of Eric Carle to learn farm animals, other animals and the parts of the body. They had so much fun acting out the animals.

The First Grade Class

The first graders have been a very energetic group of students. It’s been a pleasure to see them actively be very engaged and excited to start the Spanish class with singing a morning song for warm up and then start with simple everyday questions and commands.  The highlight of this month is that we integrated the cycle of a butterfly and words of insects with the famous books of Eric Carle.  The students acted out La Oruga Muy Hambrienta by identifying familiar vocabulary like the the days of the week, fruits and food.

Second Grade Class

The second graders are a fun, enthusiastic and very involved group of students who encourage and help each other learn Spanish.  I am so thrilled to see how well they have learned to engage in simple conversations and questions among themselves, using greetings, weather conditions and the days of the week. Rockalingua has been a highlight all year long for learning and engaging with fun catchy Spanish songs and vocabulary. This month, the students learned twenty different animals and how to describe their favorite animals with their classmates. They also wrote about and drew their animal.

Third Grade Class

The third graders are an active and involved group of children.  It’s been great teaching them Spanish this year.  We focused on different themes and topics including greetings, weather, food, colors, seasons, clothing as well as nouns and adjectives to describe animals. We learned through fun activities such as games, songs, conversations and activities that combine speaking skills and physical movement.

This month we have been focusing on animals and describing what the animal is like with adjectives.

Fourth Grade

The fourth graders are a very energetic group and enthusiastic about learning something new every time I would teach a Spanish lesson. It’s been a great learning experience for them this year.  We focused on various themes including greetings feelings, emotions, general questions and responses naming classroom objects, shapes, going to places, school activities, action verbs, and seasons describing the weather, likes and dislikes.  This month we are starting to conjugate verbs with ar endings. To make it easy to learn the students learned a song called o, as, a, amos, an otra vez. It’s been a pleasure teaching the fourth graders this year.

Fifth Grade News

The Fifth Grade students are progressing well and seem to be enjoying the Spanish lessons this year. We started as a warm up each class with songs where students would listen to the song and then try to write the missing words of the song on a sheet with the song’s missing words. Songs were related to the theme to be learned that day. This was a great way for them to develop good listening comprehension skills.

We have been describing people with adjectives, asking and talking about ages and birthdays, describing various objects, and discussing what the students like and dislike with foods. We have also talked about the weather, seasons and clothing. I am very impressed by how well the students can describe each other and ask questions with the correct grammar forms in Spanish, including descriptions of colors, shapes, and sizes.

The Fifth Graders are developing basic grammar skills and everyday vocabulary for conversation and creative expression in Spanish.  The Fifth Graders are becoming more and more skilled at using Spanish.  I look forward to their continued enthusiasm and development.

Seventh Grade News

The seventh graders have been a pleasure to teach this year.  Every morning as a warm up to start the Spanish class,they walk around and greet each other by asking question about the weather, the date and how they are feeling, using everyday conversation and vocabulary. I try to make the lessons very active with lots of movement in the classroom to keep my students active and engaged in the lessons. This month the seventh graders will learn of the different types of Latin American dances, as well as dance from Spain. They will give a presentation and show us a few steps of the different dances.  We are hoping to take a trip to the taco truck down on Fauntleroy in June to say “adios” to Spanish class until the fall. Stay tuned!

I am getting ready for a fun summer program for OLG students who would like to sign up to the camp – LET”S TRAVEL AROUND LATIN AMERICA IN FIVE DAYS! Hope to see some of you there.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Hasta Luego,

Sra. Brodahl

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