Ultimo Dia

Hola estudiantes,

this is your final post.

thank you so much for being an awesome group of students. I loved being able to teach middle school and high school together! I loved how willing you were to learn and watching things click when you understood something!

Thank you for your evaluations too! they are so helpful for me to make changes to my teaching style and be the best teacher I can be. You guys are great! Have fun with the rest of the year!

Besos y abrazos,
Miss Rehberg

martes, el 19 de abril

Today we began woor in groups to create a skit about going to the doctor. half the groups had the flu, half had a cold. your skits need to include a "medico", a "farmeceutico", and an "enfermo". You need to use all of your vocabulary words. You need to write out your script and give me a copy before you perform. you MAY have a script when you perform.

We will perform on Wednesday ad Thursday.

If you think you have a missing assignment... some see me WEDNESDAY, because it needs to be in before I leave school on Thursday. No exceptions.

Lunes

Today we played around with our new vocabulary. Your homework is to complete pg 245 Activity 4 and pg 248 Activity 7. Make sure to write complete sentences!

JUEVES EL 14 DE ABRIL

Hola
those of you who missed class today... I don't want you to do anything. just bring your pretty little selves to class... those of you who were i class today, you will be helping me teach the 8th graders what we did yesterday.

viernes y lunes y martes Ay Caramba!

On friday mr lingle was your teacher... you took your test.

on monday and tuesday we looked at saying things like "I like" "I dislike" "It interests" and "It bores"

things you need to know:
Me= me
Te= you (informal)
le= him, her, it, you (formal)

Nos= us
les= them, you all

Gustar= to be pleasing to or to please
Interesar= to be interesting to or to interest
Aburrir= to be boring to or to bore

Gusto = I please (I am pleasing to)
Gustas = You plase (you are pleasing to)
Gusta = It pleases (it is pleasing to)
Gustamos = We please (we are pleasing to)
Gustan = They please (they are pleasing to)

In order to complete the sentence you need an object that the subject pleases...
Me gusta = it pleases me
Te gusta = it pleases you
Le gusta = it pleases him
Nos gusta = it pleases us
les gusta = it pleases them

The same thing works for interesar and aburrir.

Something else tha tis important:
what is the difference between "Me aburro" and "Me Aburre"?
One means: "I bore myself", and one means "It bores me." BE CAREFUL!!!!

Today I passed back your tests and gave you time to correct your mistakes and turn those in.

The we read the interactive story "De la cabeza a los pies" VERY FUN!!

6 y 7 de Abril

Hola!
We have been working feverishly on those crazy stem-changing verbs in order to be ready for our TEST TOMORROW!!!
you need to know ALL OF THE VOCAB that is given to you in the book including parts of the body, soccer stuff, baseball stuff, basketball stuff, and the stem-changind verbs.

the words that people weren't expecting are these:

To be tied = quedar empatada
Inning = entrada
Half or quarter = tiempo
to mark a point = marcar un tanto
make a goal = meter un gol

right = derecho(a)
left = izquierdo(a)

Good luck!!

April 5, 2011

Oye!
Today we translated the article, and then read the rest of the information on the two pages that i copied for you.
You have been doing such a good job with this hard stuff! I am so proud!!

We also celebrated Laney's QUINCEANERA!! we all danced and the chambelanes lifted Laney onto their shoulders and paraded her around the room :) Very fun!!

I am going to remind you that we will be having a test VERY SOON!!!
probably Friday.

4-4-2011

Hola chicos!!

Hoy leemos un articulo muy difícil. Today we read a very difficult article. The activity is what is called an "Upper threshold" activity. The idea is that you can see 1. how much you have learned and 2. how much you still need to learn. It also lets me see those things :) Upper threshold activities are always difficult and frustrating, but you need to focus on how WELL you did, not dwell on the things you struggled with.

I read the article out loud. YOU wrote down what YOU thought the article said (we went sentence by sentence) I asked you not to talk to neighbors, because I wanted to know what YOU could understand... not what your neighbor could understand. We also worked on not interrupting.

Tomorrow we will go through the article and see how well you did translating!

buenas noches!

April Fools

Today I graded your quizzes and found that we struggled a few verbs. Here is what I saw:

Devolver is an IRREGULAR verb. It is an "O to UE" verb. I would write it in your notes like this: O -> UE

DEVUELVO DEVOLVEMOS
DEVUELVES
DEVUELVE DEVUELVEN
*notive that it is regular in the nosotros form... all irregular verbs are regular in the nosotros and vosotros forms

Next:

Meter is a REGULAR verb. It is TOTALLY NORMAL IN EVERY WAY! Some people tried to put in extra letters... but alas... you didn't need to!

METO METEMOS
METES
METE METEN

And of course we could also review IR and TENER because some of us forgot those.
IR is COMPLETELY irregular in EVERY WAY! It looks like this:

VOY VAMOS
VAS
VA VAN

TENER is also very irregular. It looks like this:
TENGO TENEMOS
TIENES
TIENE TIENEN

Not only is it what we call a "GO verb" (the verbs that end in GO in the Yo form) but it is also what we call an "E to IE" verb. You can write it in your notes as: E -> IE. Notice again that it is normal in the nosotros form!

We also FINALLY finished Harry Potter!

march 30... out like a lamb

I'm sorry I didn't get this up sooner, my internet wasn't working.

Yesterday we took a quiz on verbs. Then I gave you a worksheet for homework. THEN I let you have your vocabulary quizzes back so we could go through and make corrections. Each one you corrected was worth half the value that you lost (so if you lost 1/2 a point you got 1/4 a point back)

Today we will FINALLY finish Harry Potter! I am so sorry it has taken so long, but short days are good days for it because we can't seem to get into a lesson before we have to pack up.

chau

MaRtEs el 29 de MaRzO

Hello hispanohablantes!!

Today we reviewed for our quiz which will be TOMORROW!!! This quiz will consist of vocabulary for our chapter on "deportes" I will try to upload a some links to our power points so you can use them to review!

The quiz will have 10 questions for each sport. You MUST spell the words correctly or you will be docked points. for 5 of the 10 questions you will need to write the word in English (I don't care if those words are spelled correctly) and the other 5 will need to be written in Spanish (yes spelling counts.)

Juniors, you will not be in class tomorrow, so you will need to set a time with me to take your quiz :)

Thursday and Friday

Hello everyone!
On thursday we finished our futbol stories and tried to get caught up on missing assignments. I let everyone walk around our "city" and play with the items inside. Most of you took this time to get caught up on your illustrations for our sports book.

On friday we had a movie day and watched a 45 minutes more of Harry Potter in Spanish!!!

GOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hoy, jugmaos el fu'tbol!!

Jugamos chicos contra chicas. Los chicos ganan. El tanto es 7-1.

You also needed to have turned in your futbol rough draft today. We will have time to work on them tomorrow in class :)

Lunes el 21 de marzo

Today we reviewed our vocab words for soccer and then headed for the gym
In the gym we practiced:
driblando (dribbling)
lanzando (kicking)
pasando (passing)
bloqueando (blocking)
tirando (shooting)
and hablando (speaking)

When you were the kicker, you had to say "tiro" as you shot the ball at the goal.
When you were the goalie you had to say "Soy elportero (la portera) y guardo la porteri'a" (I am the goalie and i guard the goal)
When you stopped the ball from entering the goal you had to say "bloqueo el balo'n!" (I block the ball)
When you didn't stop the ball you had to shout "GOL!"

Tomorrow we will play soccer for half an hour and then we will work on writing soccer stories.
Feliz lunes!

viernes el 18 de marzo

Hola Todos! On friday we read the story on page 204, the soccer story about Real Madrid and Barcelona. See how much you can understand! Most of the words are the same in every sport. The only new vocabulary are the following:
portero = goal keeper
porteri'a = goal (the physical thing with the net)
estadio = stadium
bloquear = block
guardar = guard
dar toques = juggle
gol= goal
ganar = to win
perder = to lose

we then reviewed the body parts for the people who were gone for that lesson and did Head shoulders knees and toes and the hokey pokey. See the previous post for the words to those two songs.

Manana, miercoles el 16 de marzo

I already told you what we did today, so here is what we are going tomorrow!!

We are starting to learn about futbol. This is a HUGE sport in the Spanish speaking countries. We are going to start tomorrow by learning the parts of the body that we need for soccer: Head, Foot, Knee, Shoulder, Arm, Leg, Right hand, Left hand.

We are going to do both Head, Sholders, Knees and Toes, as well as the Hokey Pokey!!

Here are the words to both!

Hokey Pokey

Mete la derecha 
(Put your right hand in)

Saca la derecha 
(Take your right hand out) 

Mete la derecha y sacúdela
(Put your right hand in and shake it all about)

Baila el hokey pokey y 
(Do the hokey pokey and)

Dáte una vuelta
(Turn yourself around) 

Y así se bailará
(And that’s what it’s all about)

Mete la izquierda
(Put your left hand in)

Saca la izquierda

Mete la izquierda y sacúdela

Balia el hokey pokey y dáte una vuelta

Y así se bailará

Mete el derecho
(Put your right foot in)

Saca el derecho
Mete el derecho y sacúdelo

Balia el hokey pokey y dáte una vuelta

Y así se bailará

Mete el izquierdo
(Put your left foot in)

Saca el izquierdo

Mete el izquierdo y sacúdelo

Balia el hokey pokey y dáte una vuelta

Y así se bailará

Mete la cabeza
(Put your whole head in)

Saca la cabeza

Mete la cabeza y sacúdela

Balia el hokey pokey y dáte una vuelta

Y así se bailará

Mete la cadera
(Put your hips in) 

Saca la cadera

Mete la cadera y sacúdela

Balia el hokey pokey y dáte una vuelta

Y así se bailará

Mete todo el cuerpo
 (Put your whole body in)

Saca todo el cuerpo

Mete todo el cuerpo y sacúdelo

Balia el hokey pokey y dáte una vuelta

Y así se bailará

Head shoulders knees and toes:

Cabeza hombros rodillas pies! Rodillas pies!
Cabeza hombros rodillas pies! Rodillas pies!
Ojos orejas boca nariz.
Cabeza hombros rodillas pies! Rodillas pies!

No Observation Tomorrow

Hola estudiantes!
Mr. Dressler will NOT be coming tomorrow because he is sick.

lunes el 14 de marzo

Hoy En Clase:

Today we worked on our béisbol stories. Your final draft is due tomorrow. Tomorrow we will use the beginning of class to finish making out final drafts, and then head to the gym for our last day playing béisbol.

My supervisor will be coming to observe our class tomorrow. His name is Señor Dressler. His is a very tall and quiet man and will probably sit in the back of the room and watch us work. He may ask you questions, he might not. If he askes you a question, please be respectful and answer him as best you can! He will be here to observe ME and how good of a teacher I am for YOU.

See you tomorrow!

viernes el 11 de marzo

We played Baseball again today.
Your home work is to write your story for Baseball. same requirements as your basketball story. Have a draft finished, and we will correct them in class. DO NOT USE GOOGLE!
1 page,
skip every other line,
use the vocabulary you KNOW.
It doesn't have to be intricate... basic is just fine!!!

See you Monday!

jueves el 10 de marzo

Today we played BEISBOL!!! (ok it was more like sock t-ball, but still very fun and chaotic!!) I hope to continue the madness tomorrow!! You will not need your books for class tomorrow!!

Beisbol

Today we handed in our final drafts of our basketball stories and learned our new vocabulary for BASEBALL!!! All of your vocabulary is in your text book... except: Umpire = A'rbitro (That is an accent mark over the "A")

tomorrow we will took over our vocabulary again and then play baseball!! if it is nice, we will be going outside so PLEASE DRESS APPROPRIATELY!!!!

We will miss those of you who will be gone :( iiQue triste!!

Class on March 8

Today we worked on final drafts of our basketball stories. You will need to write your stories in your best penmanship in PEN!!
Your illustration needs to be on white computer paper. I would like you to color them, but you don't HAVE to. Your final drafts of your stories are due TOMORROW, and your illustrations are not due until we are putting together our final book.

We will be writing stories for every sport in this section. I feel like I need to remind you. DO NOT USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE!!!! It is INCORRECT! First of all, you do not know how to use many of the verb tenses that they will give you. Second, the grammar is completely wrong. Third, the vocabulary does NOT always translate correctly from English. It is SO obvious when you use translators. Not only is it creating incorrect stories, but it isn't helping you at all with your grammar. YOU need to be writing your stories because YOU are the one that needs to know how to write in Spanish. As much as I love correcting a million mistakes on papers, I don't. And I particularly get upset when the mistakes are happening because you were too lazy to do your homework yourself.

I would like to thank the students who did their own homework without using a translator. I'm sure you can share with your classmates that you hardly had any corrections to make on your stories compared to the people using a translating site.

I will thank you to NEVER use a translator again. Please TRUST that Mr. Lingle and myself are teaching you everything you need to know for the level of Spanish you are in. We would not lead you astray!!

Baloncesto!

For those of you who were gone thursday or friday, you have an assignment due on monday!

Please write a story about basketball and use your vocabulary!

Stories need to be ONE PAGE, handwritten, skipping every other line so I can make notes!

Capitulo 7

Hello everyone, we are beginning chapter 7, and i know many of you are going to be gone, so you will be responsible for teaching yourselves the vocabulary for Basketball and Baseball. Next week we will begin soccer.

I will have your tests graded by Thursday.

Substitute tomorrow, Dalton is going to be teaching you! (or should I say Senor Bullock?!)

Have a great wednesday!

Miss Rehberg

Welcome

Hello everyone! this is your new electronic classroom! This is for you to be able to contact me even when you aren't in the classroom. If you have me for US History, you know how this works. I understand that Spring is tough for everyone with absences, this it how you don't miss out on whats going on IN the classroom.