Paola Diaz-DeYoung

Building on what your student has learned the year prior, in upper elementary Spanish class we will be applying more complicated Spanish and understanding. There will be more conversational Spanish and understanding throughout the year. You student will be asked to do some homework and look up some more information regarding specific topics. Conjugation of verbs will be important to properly speak. Vocabulary will grow. We will ask parent to reinforce the language at home by having shows be shown in Spanish as opposed to English. We will be working on handwriting as well as accent marks and pronunciations during this class. All this with a bit of Dominican flare.

We will make learning Spanish fun. Your student will learn basic Spanish like numbers, alphabet, local expressions. Days of the month and seasons will be important as well. Repetition will work it into their minds all the while learning songs and having activities to help enforce the language. We will be learning about the different parts of the body, and family trees. I will share with the students some of my favorite music in Spanish and hope to expose them to different foods if time allows. The hope is through out the year they will start to pick up a number of words and be able to understand some basic conversational Spanish.