Spanish

Education in the days of Covid 19 has become a challenge for teachers, students, and parents.

The online class system can be a little difficult to understand, next I will explain some of the guidelines that we are following in the case of the Introduction to World Language: Spanish classes.

Class hours continue according to school hours.
Each class consists of two parts, the first is the Video Class we do for Zoom, where the students work directly with me, this lasts 25 minutes. The second part is the assignment of class work, with a duration of 20 minutes. For this second part, students from PK to Third grade use the Rockalingua Website, students from Fourth to Eighth grade use Google Classroom.

Rockalingua - Grades: Prek 3, Prek4, K, First, Second, Third. 

https://rockalingua.com/ 


 

username:   name and last-name together. (with out capital letter) 

 password:  Kinder - SpanishK 

                      First Grade - Spanish1 

                      Second Grade - Spanish2 

                      Third Grade - Spanish3 

  Google Classroom - (All students) 

https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h?hl=es



Please write to my email if you don't have the class code, each class has a different code.   

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Why is it important for your children to learn Spanish?

- There are more than 400 million Spanish speakers worldwide.​
- With more than 33 million speakers, Spanish is the second largest language in the United States.
- Hispanics are the largest minority in the United States, and most of them are Spanish speaking.
- By learning Spanish, they can communicate better with Spanish speakers.
- Latin American countries are the most important trading partners of the United States.
- Being able to speak Spanish will greatly improve your child's curriculum in the future. If they are bilingual, they will be more competitive in the workplace, and may aspire to better job positions.
- In class they will learn about culture, and this will help them to better understand the world around them.
​- As we age, our memory begins to fade. Learning a foreign language actually helps to maintain a good memory.

I discovered my vocation as a Spanish Teacher when I arrived in the United States and I met a large group of Latin American emigrants who are illiterate and can’t even write their own name in their native language. We went to work immediately and I voluntarily taught them the letters and how letters form words, how words form sentences, how sentences form paragraphs, and I suddenly realized that it was for them a teacher.

Today I can help my students to learn a foreign language because I had to put it into practice with myself when I studied English as a second language. One of my goals in teaching is to become an important part of the students' learning experience and to ensure that they are always very motivated to continue learning. I want to contribute so that your language learning experience is for life.

As a teacher, I consider individualized work with each student very important, I like to interact with them, move around the classroom and dialogue with each one, because I believe that students are not a homogenous group, but rather individuals with specific needs. I am aware of your individual needs to help you succeed in learning a second language.

I believe that my responsibility as a teacher is to guide a teaching process where students take autonomy and are responsible for their own learning process. The first thing I do when I get to the classroom is to greet my students and talk with them in Spanish, I do it as a warm-up activity with a double purpose: for the students to participate in the conversation in Spanish and to activate their previous knowledge for prepare them for learning.

One of my goals in teaching Spanish is to give students the opportunity to practice the language, for this reason I use Spanish to communicate with them. In each class I combine activities that integrate receptive and productive language skills. From my personal point of view, I believe that learning a new language changes your vision of the world, a new form of communication makes the student discover new things, for this reason I integrate into Spanish classes aspects of culture and tradition of Spanish-speaking countries.

In my Spanish class I have integrated technology in various ways to improve my educational goals, as I am sure that technological tools can help improve teaching and learning.

I firmly intend to make all my students capable of speaking and writing in Spanish