FOURTH GRADE UPDATE: OCT. 17

After playing a challenging relay race about famous Hispanic Americans, the Spanish students returned to learning prepositions by playing “Where is Frida Kahlo?”

The prepositions of location they’ve practiced thus far are:

junto a – next to
entre – between
en medio de – in the middle of (as in the middle of a circle)
delante de – infront of
detrás de – behind the
encima de – on top of
debajo de – under the

After reviewing these words, students were introduced to the parts of the sentence and composed, individually or in teams, sentences using magnetic visual cards (“Symtalk”). It was fascinating to see the class analyze the sentences their classmates had made and if needed, find ways to correct, lengthen or minimize a sentence!

Many of the fourth graders have recently started a writing activity where they identify Spanish words to combine into original sentences of their own.
The students have also gone over their latest quiz, and enjoyed reading their homework paragraphs to their classmates.

I found their paragraphs both enjoyable to read and very informative.