telling time

-Students reviewed topics from the past.
-We reviewed how to tell time in Spanish.
-Students were given vocabulary sheets on body parts (copies are outside my room).
-Students were also given sheets on adjectives (attached, and outside my room). We talked about making nouns and adjectives match in Spanish.
-We will be starting to make a bilingual book together about aliens next week.
-HOMEWORK: Students have a worksheet on body parts (copies outside my room).

-We reviewed phrases that use the verb "tener". We practiced using "tener" with different subjects. We discussed the difference between a subject and a verb in a sentence.
-Students practiced conversational questions in partners, including a couple new ones.
-Students learned the basics of talking about time in Spanish, how to ask and answer.
-We practiced commands/verbs.
-HOMEWORK: none

-Students reviewed telling time and using transportation vocabulary/verbs.
-We did a listening activity for review.
-We played a game of translating these phrases from English to Spanish.
-HOMEWORK: None. This is the end of 2nd quarter; 3rd quarter begins on Wed 1/23.

Students arrived and looked through notes I had written on work in their folder.

As a class, we went through and corrected previous time review worksheet.

Students completed quick quiz

Tarea: final draft of schedule. Students had previously written their typical weekly schedules with times, class subjects and after-school activities. Students who handed in their schedules got their corrections back and need to come up with a final draft. We will be compiling information about students to put together a book about them.

Students arrived and studied their notes about numbers, telling time, months, and days of the week.

In pairs, students competed to practice vocabulary we've been working on the last several weeks about time. Review included questions like:

• La _____ de hoy es el 4 de febrero. fecha
• La clase de español comienza a las ____. ocho.
• Es el día entre miércoles y viernes. jueves
• Quinientos cuarenta y dos. 542
• Hay 7 días en una __________________. semana
• La estación que incluye marzo, abril, mayo. primavera

Tarea: prepare for a quick quiz Monday about days of week, months, numbers, telling time and general time-related vocabulary. Also, several students haven't handed in a schedule of their typical week which they need to do by Monday.

Students completed attached do now activity practicing time-related vocabulary.

In pairs, students received clocks as well as times written out in Spanish (attached). Groups matched up the clock with the correct time in Spanish. Once times were matched, students practiced in pairs:
¿Qué hora es?
Son las nueve y cinco.

Students received attached review worksheet to practice their time related vocabulary. Whatever they didn't complete in class is for homework.

Tarea: complete review worksheet.

Students completed attached do now activity.

Comprehensión auditiva: telling time

Introduced to students:
comienza (to start)/ termina (to end)

La clase de español comienza a las ocho.
La clase de español termina a las ocho y veinticinco.

Students received a sheet with several blank clocks. They listened and drew on the clock face what time each class started and ended.

Matemáticas: 8:45-9:15
Ciencias: 9:25 - 10:05
Arte: 10:13 - 10:50
educación física: 10:55 - 11:43
música: 11:58 - 12:20

Students started writing out their schedule for one day, using the classes above and adding on new vocabulary:
desayuno (breakfast)
almuerzo (lunch)
cena (dinner)
teatro (theater)
literatura (literature)
lectura (reading)
recreo (recess)

Tarea: students will bring in their typical schedule for the week including classes and after-school activities. The schedule should include times (ej. 8:00 español).

Students practiced larger numbers with do now activity.

How to tell time in Spanish

Important vocabulary:
a las at
llegar to arrive
salir to leave
media half (used when telling time as 30)
cuarto quarter (used when telling time as 15 minutes)
menos minus

Los estudiantes llegan a las ocho. The students arrive at 8 in the morning.
Los estudiantes salen a las ocho y media. The students leave at 8:30.
Los estudiantes llegan a las nueve menos cuarto. The students arrive at 8:45 (literally 9 minus a quarter). This can also be said as Los estudiantes llegan a las ocho y cuarenta y cinco.
Los estudiantes salen a las diez y cuarto. _The students leave at 10:15.

Students received attached bus schedule. We went over vocabulary as a class, and students were to answer the questions in complete sentences.

Tarea: complete bus schedule questions.