Mrs. Barrientos – Spanish
Posted on November 30, 2011, by Rosa Barrientos, under Spanish.
PrintPre K3/K4 – It is always a delight to have this bunch. K3 is working hard on colors, numbers, days of the week and our new song about chocolate. They love to sing and move around. Our next unit will be about the body parts so we will be learning a new song which names all the body parts as we move and dance. Our next unit is family. We will be learning family names, identifying and drawing our families. I will incorporate Thanksgiving with family. In December we will be learning about Christmas in Mexico, and we will have hot chocolate with Mexican bread.
K4 – Wow! if you have not heard them introduce themselves, please ask them. Your child will tell you his/her name, age, gender and a good bye. The children sound beautiful and love doing it. They also love to do the ABC’s and of course the vowels. Our next unit is family. We will be learning family names, identifying and drawing our families. I will incorporate Thanksgiving with family. In December we will be learning about Christmas in Mexico, and we will have hot chocolate with Mexican bread.
1st. Grade – We are in the school unit. We have been learning about gender, articles, school supplies, people in the school and places around in the school. This is a long unit so we will be in this unit all the way to December.
2nd. Grade – They have been working hard on the verb ESTAR (to be – used as temporary condition or location). The verb ESTAR was used with all the personal pronouns. We have also learned feelings – they had a lot of fun with acting and a guessing game. After having so much fun with this; I then combined the verb ESTAR with the feelings. They love it and so do I! We are now learning about professions and this will be combined with the verb SER (to be) used as a permanent characteristic. In December we will be learning new vocabulary as we celebrate Christmas in Mexico with hot chocolate and Mexican bread.
3rd. Grade – We have been learning about GENDER and sentence structure. Article, noun, adjective and how the adjectives have to agree with the noun in number and in gender. We are learning the names of farm animals and developing simple sentences using adjectives. For December we will talk and watch a movie on Celebrating Christmas in Hispanic Countries.
4th. Grade – Asking and answering questions using animal’s names, shapes and adjectives; answering affirmatively as well as negative. We will move on to lesson 3, which has to do with mastering the days of the week, talking about going places using the verb IR (to go) in the present, and what you do in different days of the week by reading a calendar.
5th. Grade – We just finished lesson 6 and learned to read dates, learned to conjugate the verb GUSTAR (to like), weather nouns and weather adjectives. It is nice when we can put it all together to have a little conversation. We also reviewed AR verbs conjugations. We will be moving on to talking about feelings, expressing them and asking using tu and usted. We will also be studying the verb TENER (to have) and its conjugations.
6th , 7th and 8th grade will also be researching Christmas in Hispanic Countries.
6th. Grade – We finished learning about the difference of two articles indefinite and indefinite and when to use each, reading and translating a story as well as each exercise we do. The next lesson has to do with AR verbs, and it will be a review since we know how to do it. We will be learning new vocabulary as we learn more AR verbs.
7th Grade – We are working on lesson 10, IR verbs in the present (regular as well as irregulars). We will be working on this unit since it has been a bit challenging to most of the students. We will be writing, reading, and translating with IR verbs.
8th. Grade – Numbers, numbers and more numbers! Learning the hundreds, thousands and millions. Constructing problems, reading them and writing them. We are now working with the verb IR (to go), learning new vocabulary and using the verb to go in the present. We are reading and translating as well as doing comprehension questions about the story. We will be studying one or two verbs at a time and using them in different ways to learn the meanings, conjugations and when and how to use them.
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Mrs. Barrientos – Spanish
Posted on September 19, 2011, by Rosa Barrientos, under Spanish.
PrintBienvenidos! Welcome to another year of fun learning at St. Elizabeth Catholic School.
Pre K – 3rd. grade have been concentrating on greetings and goodbyes as well as practicing our cultural dance which we performed at the Church’s Jamaica on Sat. Sept. 17 at 6:16 p.m. This was a fun way of introducing a bit of the Hispanic culture with dances, food and fun! Thanks for coming to support the Guadalupanas in this event.
4th grade: We are concentrating on formal introductions and reviewing our past lessons, so that we are able to make connections with past learned material and that which is new to come.
5th grade: We will continue to review until we are able to retrieve the information. It just takes re-enforcement and practice. We will be using the same text and workbook as last year.
6th grade: We did a quick review, and we will be moving a little slow to give the students some time to catch their breath with all the new information and routines. We have done our first lesson together in our new books.
7th grade: We are still reviewing but doing beautifully. We will be looking at specific verbs, one at a time with the correct conjugation and using in combination with other verbs.
8th grade: is taking a three to four sentence dictation in Spanish and translating it into English every time they come to Spanish. I have been very satisfied with their work. We had a really fast review, and it seems like the students have retained the information and with flying colors. We are now ready to pick up where we left off last year and hopefully move faster to our second book.
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Mrs. Barrientos – Spanish
Posted on October 28, 2010, by Rosa Barrientos, under Spanish.
PrintPreK3 & 4 and Kinder are doing very well, but every other grade has new material to learn; so please make sure your child studies for at least 10 minutes daily. There is a tremendous amount of grammar concepts to learn. Thank you in advanced for your help.
PreK – 3:
We are an energetic group of little people who love to sing, dance and learn. We are having fun learning the alphabet by name and sound, the vowels, counting to 10, colors and days of the week with songs and body movements.
PreK – 4:
Some of us already know the Spanish routine, and the children keep me in line with the material that we have to learn. We learn with music and body movements as well and cover all the Spanish basics: alphabet by name and sound, vowels, counting to 20, colors, and days of the week. We are concentrating on decoding the colors. The pre-kinders are doing a wonderful job.
Kinder:
Some students in this group have mastered some of the basics, and we can now decode and clap words to put them together. We continue to concentrate on the phonics of the alphabet, but the students also enjoy the songs and body movements, but with a few more expectations.
1st Grade:
Our main objective in first grade is to retain the basics but to also expand our vocabulary and practice sounding out and writing the words. We started with colors and numbers and have moved on to shapes. We are breaking the shape names into syllables, and practicing reading the names. We will also be cutting our own shapes, naming them and making them into funny faces.
2nd Grade:
We are learning about occupations and what we want to be when we grow up. I am very proud of them because the students can now break the long names into syllables and put them together to read the Spanish words. We will also be learning about the places in the community where all these people with all different occupations work.
3rd Grade:
Third grade is learning to read charts of conjugated AR verbs to use with different other things in the book. We are learning about all kinds of animals, so we will be combining AR verbs with animals to form sentences. We are also writing descriptive sentences with all kinds of adjectives.
4th Grade:
We are starting unit one, which has to do with classroom supplies, school supplies, school personnel and the two articles: definite and indefinite. We will also be learning how to make nouns plural by following our three rules and answering questions using (cuantos, cuantas) how many.
5th Grade:
Finished us lesson 4, which has to do with classroom supplies and school personnel as well as the different classes and ar verbs to express what we do in each class. We also asked questions and answer the questions in complete sentences using the verbs hacer (to make) and ir (to go). We will be learning weather and weather adjectives with the verb ESTAR (to be), and hacer (to make).
6th Grade:
We are refreshing our minds about AR verbs and its conjugations. We are reading and translating sentences, we are learning ways to retain the conjugations without a chart. We will be working with AR verbs in many ways for a while. Our next step is to start writing sentences with each AR verb using peoples names instead of pronouns.
7th Grade:
We just finished mastering AR conjugations in the present with regular as well as with irregular verbs, translating sentences, answering questions in complete sentence making all the necessary changes. We are now moving on to ER verbs.
8th Grade:
Eighth grade is reading, translating and learning new advanced grammar to expand their vocabulary. We have been introducing the indirect object, direct object and reflexive object. We are reading stories and answering questions pertaining to the story in complete sentences.
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Mrs. Barrientos – Spanish
Posted on September 29, 2010, by Rosa Barrientos, under Spanish.
PrintPK 3 thru 5th grade have been enjoying dancing, the chicken dance, and folkloric to cumbia and salsa. PK4-5th grade performed at the church’s Jamaica on Saturday, Sept. 18th.
PK 3: Is doing an outstanding job at learning the Spanish routine to learn the basics with music and body movements. We are concentrating on the colors and introductions this quarter.
PK4: Is a busy group with lots of energy to learn. We have fun singing, dancing and moving our bodies to learn all kinds of things like: ABC’s phonics and name, vowels sounds, up, down, left, right, the colors, counting up to 20, days of the week, and introductions.
Kindergarten: We concentrate on the ABC’s phonics but we keep working hard on all the Spanish basics as well. Our introductions have expanded from saying just the name to adding the age. We have been dancing La RASPA.
1st Grade: We have not yet received out books. Apparently, they are on back order status because they are so popular, but I will be making copies for them until we receive them. We will be concentrating on practicing writing the basics, so that we can become familiar with decoding and sound out the words. We did great on our introductions, and they had lots of fun dancing La Vivora de la Mar for the Jamaica.
2nd Grade: Our books are on back order status, so I will be making copies of the different things we will be working on. We will practice writing, decoding and sounding out to start reading. We have been working on greetings, introductions and goodbyes. We will be moving on to personal pronouns.
3rd Grade: Our third grade book concentrates on many animals, but I do combinations of other grammar concepts that we need to learn and use them with learning animal names. We will be practicing to write as well as reading.
4th Grade: Concentrating on writing and pronunciation of greetings, introductions and goodbyes. We have learned about how to determine gender and apply it to identify the definite articles. We will be using classroom supplies vocabulary to reinforce what we have learned as well as the indefinite articles.
5th grade: Our review has ended so we are moving to new and fresh materials. We are learning about the preposition “TO” and how to use it; the verb IR = to go, as well as AR verbs. We will spend a great deal of time on learning AR verb meanings and conjugations.
6th grade: We have learned about how to identify gender in nouns to apply the definite articles. Lesson 2 was learning to make nouns plural, and we are currently in lesson 3 which has to do with family members. We are also learning all kinds of adjectives so that we can be able to write complete sentences about each of our immediate family members in correct family structure.
7th & 8th grade: We finished reviewing gender, articles, plurals, singulars and AR verb conjugations. I know now that we have mastered them, but will keep on learning new AR verbs and will continue to have tests over their meanings and sometimes conjugating. We are moving on to more reading and translation learning for all kinds of other new information; for example, we are expanding our knowledge of personal pronouns, indirect objects, direct objects, objects of the preposition and reflexive objects of prepositions.
Latin Pop Group Son by 4 Concert to Benefit Local Hispanic Students Through Tuition Assistance
Latin pop & Christian music group, “Son by 4” and music ministry “Hermanos Fuego Nuevo,” will be performing in a concert fundraiser benefiting the Jethsuby Scholarship Fund of the Catholic Foundation on October 16, 2010, at the Special Events Center in Garland. Funds raised will support scholarships to cover Catholic school tuition for Hispanic elementary students.
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