Back in the Groove

The Christmas break was a wonderful time to relax and enjoy ourselves.  Now we are back in the groove of classes and new material.

Our third, fourth and fifth graders have been going over our vocab from the first semester and identifying the masculine and feminine nouns.  They learned the rules for plural forms last semester.  This week we have been putting it all together with the definite and indefinite articles.

Our sixth grade students have been working on the possessive adjectives and the comparatives.  Tomorrow they are going to pair up with our second grade buddies to help them memorize the blessing  before meals in Spanish.  We are all looking forward to celebrating with an (appropriately blessed) ice cream party once they all have it down!

Our seventh grade students have been going over travel vocab and the reflexive verbs.  Today we combined those with the direct object pronouns.  Students closed their eyes, fished around in the suitcase, chose an item and then identified in Spanish, and told what they use it for using the reflexive verbs.

The eighth grade class has been using the preterite and imperfect to create their own leyendas.  It has been so much fun reading their stories that I think we might need to have a play so that the entire class can enjoy their creative tales! 

One of the sentences in the homework with the comparative forms had the students choose whether work was more fun than play or less fun than play.  Your children make sure that for me the answer is always that work is fun!