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Students arrived and wrote down months of the year and categorized the list of holidays celebrated in the Spanish-speaking world by month (attached).

We did some review, including days of the week, months, parts of day, meals of the day, and things in the classroom. Attached is a photo of the board.

Students had 20 minutes in the computer lab to investigate an important holiday that's happening right now in the Spanish-speaking world: Carnaval.

Tarea: complete researching and writing what they learned about Carnaval.

Students arrived and competed the attached matching activity. They matched things from their to do list with activities. We went over this activity as a class.

The plan for class today was to review for our upcoming exam next Friday. Students had 3 minutes to look at their notes. Students were divided into teams of 2, and were given attached worksheet about festivals. Students had to write the main element about the festival and the city and town where the festival takes place. Ej. La Tomatina/elemento importante = tomates/Buñol, España. Students switched their worksheet with another group to score.

For part two of our review, students received a small white board and answered questions I proposed, getting one point for each correct answer. We started with verdadero/falso questions below:

• La Tomatina es un festival que se celebra en España.
• El festival en Viña del mar, Chile es un festival de películas.
• El festival de Cosquín es un festival de Chile.
• La corrida de toros se llama El Festival de San Silvestre.

Tarea: students are to keep reviewing information that will be on test next week, including:

• information about festivals (see attached sheet)
• information about Lucha Libre
• verb meaning and conjugation (hay, ser, estar, tener)

1. ser = to be permanent (soy, eres, es, somos, son)
2. estar = to be temporary (estoy, estás, está, estamos, están)
3. tener = to have (tengo, tienes, tiene, tenemos, tienen)

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We've been working on a big grammar review the last few weeks and students took the test (attached) today. Several students were not in class today so please give your students the test and have them bring it in Thursday.

When students finished, they paired up and chose a sport that they need to describe and explain how to play using the vocabulary from our recent sport activity. They should keep their explanation relatively simple (what equipment is needed, how many players, etc.) and bring visual aids (photos for more involved sports or if their sport were soccer, a soccer ball).

Tarea: complete writing description of sport and bring visual aids on Thursday. Students will have a few minutes at the beginning of class to prepare presentation with their group and then will present to class.