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! :)

Numbers in Spanish

We are working on the numbers in Spanish! Here are two great videos that we've watched in class.

In class, we have started talking about Día de los muertos, or Day of the Dead, as we learn about Mexican culture. This coming week we will be reading the book Pablo Remembers by George Anacona, which does a great job of telling the story of Day of the Dead through the perspective of a young boy in Mexico and includes lots of great Spanish vocabulary as it describes his family's preparation for the festival. 

Here are some great events going on in DC to celebrate Día de los muertos on November 1st and 2nd. 

1. Don't miss the Mexican Cultural Institute's annual Day of the Dead Altar on Saturday, November 1st! This well-known community event is a quintessentially Mexican tradition and one of our most colorful displays of the year. This year's Day of the Dead Altar is dedicated to the life and work of Latin American literary giant Gabriel García Márquez.

Born in Colombia on March 6, 1927, writer, journalist, and humanist Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City, where he lived for most of the last 50 years. The Nobel-laureate, who epitomized the magical realistic writing movement, wrote some of his best-known works in Mexico, including One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The opening event will take place on Saturday, November 1st from 12 to 4 pm and will remain open to visitors and school groups until November 7th during regular hours.

More information about the Mexican Cultural Institute of DC here. 

2. Celebrations, Demonstrations and hands-on activities begin at 10:30 am on Saturday, November 1st at the National Museum of the American Indian in DC. Events include demonstrations of barriletes gigantes (Guatemalan Kites), papel picado making demonstrations, and a book signing by author Sandra Cisneros on Sunday. More info about the celebration at the National Museum of the American Indian here.

Videos!

¡Hola! 

Welcome to Ms. Cox's Spanish class web page. I will try to update this site regularly with videos, resources, and information about what we've been learning in class. 

Here are some great videos that we have been watching in Spanish class this week.

"Buenos dias" song, by Jose-Luis Orozco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25m0yDoKM0Y


Buenos dias, buenas tardes, y buenas noches review video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8OfRnn1Sdc

Los colores
(The kids really like the interactive part at the end when they have to choose the color they hear)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXILiLIG-1A

I hope you enjoy them!

Information coming soon!