Primary and LE: “La Primavera” (Spring) y “La Ropa” (Clothing); UE: “La Comida, La Primavera, Donde Estás?, La Escuela ; MS: “El horario en la escuela” y “La Primavera”. A general review of all we have learned to this point this school year was done at every level. In addition, FWM middle school students were able to present their Spanish Food Project.

FWM students are still working on their usual conversation about feelings, Spanish greetings, the calendar, and descriptions of the weather, as repetition is the key to learning another language. They are continuously improving their Spanish listening and vocabulary. Students from Primary, Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, and Middle School listened carefully to Spanish lessons, books, and songs and participated in interactive games that were presented during class.

Primary and Lower Elementary students also continued lessons using the same type of Montessori lessons such as three-part learning cards and matching cards to reinforce concepts. The children also really enjoyed singing and participating in classroom games. Spanish Montessori Lessons were presented in the students’ classroom and left in their classrooms to be practiced during the week.

Upper Elementary and Middle School students also continue working year-round on their Spanish greetings, description of weather, feelings and their daily calendar that includes days of the week, months and seasons. Also, students learned songs in class that helped with the memorization of vocabulary and with pronunciation.

In addition, Middle School Students continue working through the Spanish curriculum in the “Avancemos” program. They also focused on learning vocabulary to talk about School schedules. They are also learning how to use and write more verbs and their conjugations, learning about their daily schedule, reviewing how to say the time, and learning to say how often they do their activities.  We continue enhancing their vocabulary, reading, listening, and comprehension skills using our workbooks. We watched the movie “Elemental” in Spanish as part of “Spanish Enrichment”.

Middle schoolers presented their last project of the year, their “Spanish Food Presentation”. This project allowed children to expand their horizons, where they can experience the diversity of food that other countries can offer. They really enjoyed working on their project. All of them did a great job researching the dishes, history, origin, and recipe and showing videos of them cooking at home, and they even shared the food they prepared with classmates.

Overall, this year, all the students at FWM are enjoying learning Spanish, and I am very pleased with their progress accomplishing goals in my class.