It’s never perfect but this year is about as good as it gets! I finally have an afternoon prep! (I’m a morning person so I like getting a lot done before lunch and having a minute to collect myself after!) Our program is in a growing phase! Three years ago we had 17 in a combined 3/4. Two years ago, we had 40 threes (half seniors) and 12 4s. One year ago we had 40 threes (half seniors) and 20 4s. This year… We have 60 3s (12 seniors) and 20 4s… Next year we could have two sections of FOUR! I’m just so happy to see so many going on!
Now that the introductory part of the year is over we are into stuff that really gets students involved! In Spanish 2 we just finished SOMOS 2 unit 2 – La muchacha y la ardilla… I always let my students create their own story so in one class we had a boy in the park with a dragon and in the other we had an alien in area 51 with a monstruos guinea pig named Cuy Cucuy! This week we are doing a lot of past narrative that includes El banco by Señor Wooly, my unit on El cacto y el banco, and my unit on El robo loco. We are working up to our first read of the year, Bianca Nieves y los siete toritos!
In level 3 we are doing my unit on Biodiversity and Conservation! If you HAVE it, I am updating it and will post the new unit after we finish! I have some ideas for enriching the study and I want the unit to be clickable like some of my new units! If you don’t have it, buy it now! When the unit is updated, it will cost just a little more! Tuesday will be our field trip to the woods near our school! The kids are excited for that! Our first read of the year, Robo en la noche will follow this study. I usually read it in 2 but we made a switch last year for La llorona so I am throwing it in now!
In level 4 we just finished my song based unit En guerra. We are about to read Frida Kahlo by Kristy Placido and this unit was the PERFECT lead in.
I can’t wait to see how far we go (Did you know Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote that song for Moana?)!
It is exciting to see a department grow! Last year I had 12 Spanish III students. This year, I have 34 Spanish III and one lone Spanish IV student! And.. this is in a small rural town in Missouri (:
If you build it, they will come!!! Congratulations on that 1 level 4!! Next year there will be more and then more after that!!
Your numbers found great! Congrats on the growth! I had 1 Span 4 student last year and this year there are 14!!! So happy and excited. I do have a curriculum question. You stayed that in Span 2, you just finished Unit 2 of Somos 2. Did they complete all Units of Somos 1 in year 1 or do you just jump into Somos 2 in year 2 regardless of how far they got in year 1?
We just go to somos 2 year 2!