Spanish 1 Honors

Wooly Week – In February, our spanish learner website (Señor Wooly) released a new song called La Cancion Original. In class, we went over the vocabulary that is in the song. We did class discussions to learn the vocab instead of doing boring worksheets. We also played a game where we ran across the room and stuck our vocabulary words on the board that matched the sentences read aloud. The nuggets that we did on Señor Wooly helped us to learn new words by listening to songs. Overall, Wooly Week was a fun and different way to learn more Spanish.

Favorite part about Wooly Week – My favorite part about Wooly Week was that we had a new seating arrangement, and we didn’t do worksheets all class period. On paperwork, I only learn the vocabulary temporarily, but in class discussions where we repeat and apply the words over and over, I actually memorize and understand the target words.

Billy la Bufanda – Billy la Bufanda is another song on Señor Wooly. (and it is amazing!) Billy is a scarf that goes to a whole bunch of places and eventually falls in love with a pair of boots. Over spring break, our teacher sent us home with a picture of Billy. We were asked to do an activity called Flat Billy where we take pictures of Billy at different places. During the break, I took 10 pictures of Billy across town that were eventually put into a project. My project was a Google slideshow in which I explained six photos and what Billy liked about those particular places.

Glogster project

When using the Gloster site I explained in the online poster how to use reflexive verbs and how they are integrated into the Spanish language.  The poster included a colorful and inventive way to write instructions for people, or simply make a poster for fun.

I would rather this project over a written test because it integrates my computer skills with the actual learning experience.  I enjoy using the computer systems better then writing for most functions and this I would consider one of the things I enjoy more on the computer.

Link to the Glog: Here

Why Nelly Cruz is amazing!

I am doing this assignment to further my knowledge of how the Spanish language works.  How we learn Spanish can open up more job opportunities in the future.  So with doing this assignment I will further my knowledge of Spanish.  When describing someone in Spanish we are able to learn more of the Spanish language.

Nelly Cruz de Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic.  Èl es athleta profesional. Tiene treinta y Uno años.  Nelly Cruz es alto y corpulento.  Nelly Cruz es maduro y trabajador. Nelly Cruz es el jugador favorita de Senora Huggins.

Voki Project

In the process of making a voki account, first you have to  enter your email and choose a username and  password.  When you are done with this then you are able to create your character in which ever way you want. After this you can record your voice or do whatever you feel like doing with your account.  In the project that my Spanish teacher gave me, I recorded my voice using my laptop microphone.  This was very easy to record and took almost no time at all.

Personally I did not enjoy the project nor did I hate it, it was another thing to do school.  It wasen’t hard so it didn’t bother me, but I am glad it was an easy project.  Recording it was annoying when I tended mess up on a few things.  I would have to re-record my message a few times, but it wasen’t too bad.  It would have been a huge hassle if the project would have taken me like 4 hours, like some other projects Ive done.