Newsletter!

It's hard to believe that winter break is almost here! I will be sending home updates and resources in the form of our Spanish class newsletter this week. For regular updates about what we are up to in Spanish, please also check out the Tuckahoe Times!

What we are working on

Here was our latest Tuckahoe Times update, just in case you missed it!:

In Spanish, we are focusing on Mexico’s culture and the holiday El día de los muertos. In the weeks that follow, we will be studying the days of the week, months of the year, seasons, and weather. Among other things, students at lower levels will be learning how to say the month of their birthday, while older students will be asked to give their own birthdays and report about others’. Advanced students with more background in Spanish may be challenged to even describe their schedules on different days of the week, answer questions about the calendar and different holidays in Spanish, or recommend clothing choices based on the weather.

We will try to post pictures and quick updates on twitter from time to time as well!
Please follow @senoritacox for updates specific to my classes, and @TuckahoeFLES for tweets from our department as a whole.

Happy Halloween!

¡Feliz día de brujas! Happy Halloween!

I'm dressed as Frida Kahlo, a famous artist from Mexico. 

To learn more about her, I recommend one of the following children's books!

Frida by Jonah Winter

Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales

Me, Frida by Amy Novesky

Have a wonderful and safe Halloween!

Resources!

One of our favorite resources is Rockalingua, which students can access at home to review videos, check out picture dictionaries, and play games related to what we are working on in class.

Please contact me if you need the login information!

Welcome to the 2015-2016 school year!

¡Bienvenidos! Welcome! 

I hope you all are as excited as I am about the new school year.

This year, I will be working with the following classes:

Mr. Gadzinski's 5th grade class

Ms. Weisz's 5th grade class

Ms. Lindeman's 4th grade class

Ms. Coffman's 3rd grade class

Ms. DiNardo's 3rd grade class

Ms. Antognoli's 2nd grade class

Mr. Brent's 1st grade class

Ms. Sackett's 1st grade class

Ms. Campbell's kindergarten class

Ms. Morgan's kindergarten class

For updates on what the upper grades are working on, please go to my other blog:

tuckahoespanish3to5.blogspot.com. 

Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns!

<3, 

Señorita Cox

Spanish games!

Here are some fun Spanish games to reinforce some of the things we have learned in class.

Battleship to Practice the numbers 0-15
http://www.quia.com/ba/36859.html

Variety of Activities (Matching, Concentration) to practice the numbers 0-31
http://www.quia.com/jg/2618841.html

Picture Perfect to practice the Spanish Numbers 1-14
http://www.quia.com/pp/14783.html

Hangman to practice spelling the numbers 1-10
http://www.quia.com/hm/233846.html

Rockalingua!

We've been using a lot of videos from Rockalingua in class in order to help us learn new vocabulary. Some of our favorites are

U La La

Las cuatro estaciones

and 

this version of the weather song (versión fácil), which is only available on the Rockalingua site.

http://rockalingua.com/videos/weather-easy-version-k-2

Students can log in in order to access the full-length versions of the videos, as well as the other games and resources available on the Rockalingua site.

Enjoy! :)