Our Senior Kindergarten and first grade students are learning colors, numbers, and how to ask each other their names in Spanish. Second grade is reviewing the months of the year and will be working on a calendar this month. Third grade students are reviewing the alphabet , while the fourth grade has been reviewing basic mapping skills before the study of the twenty-one Spanish speaking countries of the world.
Our fifth
graders have learned 131 new words and have completed a study on Mexico. They
will begin a study about the Aztecs later this month. They come to
Spanish as part of the fine arts program two days a week.
Sixth grade Spanish class has been busy reading two books aloud in Spanish and will begin a third one this month. They have also studied The Day of the Dead, a holiday celebrated in Mexico annually, and made traditional skull magnets and marigold flowers commemorating the celebration. Sixth grade students may choose Spanish three days per week as an elective in the fine arts program.
As the
curriculum builds each year, the students leave elementary school with a
foundation of vocabulary and cultural knowledge to assist them in their study
of Spanish as they enter high school.
Judy B. Arthur
Elementary Spanish Teacher
