New Seats!

We began class today by placing students in a new seating arrangement. We (my cooperating teacher Lynette and I) feel that it is important for students to have new partners every few weeks so that they become comfortable speaking Spanish to a variety of individuals and gain confidence in their communicative skills. The new arrangement seemed to work well.

After we settled in to our new seats we began to reviewed for the quiz over the first section of Chapter 2 that we will have at the end of class tomorrow. We began by going over the section's vocabulary which focuses on school supplies. We then practiced using the verbs "necesitar" (to need), "querer" (to need), and "tener" (to have) as well as the indefinite articles un, una, unos and unas, (a, and and some in English) and discussed the need for gender and plurality agreement between Spanish nouns and indefinite articles. Throughout the class we did a number of written, listening and partner activities giving the students an opportunity to practice the concepts that we discussed.

Tomorrow we will review key concepts that will be covered on the quiz again and attempt to clear up and fuzzy areas.