3rd Grade--Ir and Places in the Community

I am so excited that our 3rd graders are already learning the concepts of masculine and feminine, verb conjugation, and adjective agreement.  They have actually been learning these things all along since Pre-K Spanish with Mrs. Stafford, and thanks to her teaching and their effort to learn, we already have a strong foundation.

This semester we started learning the conjugations of the verb ir (to go), the prepositions al and a la (to the), and places in the community.  Although we have not taught formal patterns of verb conjugation or all of the subject pronouns yet, once we started learning the places, our students wanted to express that they were going there.  So why not?

Here is our vocab list for the present tense conjugations of ir, the prepositions al and a la, and places in the community:

To talk about going places:

Voy = I’m going

Vas = you are going

Va = he/she is going, you (formal) are going

Vamos = we’re going, let’s go

Vais = you all are going (vosotros--used in Spain)

Van = they are going, you all are going

Al = to the (masculine place)

A la = to the (feminine place)

Places (masculine):

Parque—park

Apartamento—apartment

Campo—country

Restaurante—restaurant

Museo—museum

Zoológico—zoo

Cine—movie theater

Places (feminine):

Granja—farm

Escuela—school

Ciudad—city

Biblioteca—library

Iglesia—church

Tienda—store

Casa—house

We are going to be playing with board games in Spanish to create complete sentences, such as Vamos al restaurante (We are going to the restaurant), Van a la escuela (They are going to school), etc.

We will be having a quiz over this material in the next couple of weeks, so please practice the material.  With all that they are learning, there is no doubt that these kids will go far!