5th+Grade

At the beginning of the school year, fifth-grade classes brainstormed goals they had for using Spanish. We have been using common themes from this list of goals to develop a new unit of study about talking with friends. In this unit, we are reviewing knowledge of basic greetings and practicing interacting with other students using basic conversational language, including questions such as //¿Qué tal?// (How's it going?) and //¿Cómo te llamas?// (What's your name?). We are also learning how to talk about which languages we speak and understand. Students act out class stories and write text as a class to go with the photos we take during the stories. After creating a story, students draw the main events while listening to a retelling of the story, and then practice their writing independently by adding a caption for each of the pictures.

Hablando con amigos (Talking with friends) Current key structures:
 * dice: --¿Qué tal? || says, "How's it going? ||
 * se llama || is called (his/her name is) ||
 * no habla mucho español || doesn't speak much Spanish ||
 * no entiende || doesn't understand ||
 * dice: --¿Quieres ir a ___ conmigo?__ || says, "Do you want to go to _ with me? ||