Cosas de la Casa: Inspiration Activity

Today we finished up our Inspiration projects. This was probably the most useful assignment we have done yet. I did mine on Spanish vocabulary around the house. Every vocab word in Spanish had a picture to go with it, to help younger students know what each word means. Also, they could click on a note on each word to read the English definition . This is an activity I think every student could look at and study themselves. The words were separated into three categories, objects you would find in the kitchen, living room, and bedroom. After doing an assignment like this, the teacher could easily move into a game of "Donde esta...?" which is "Where is the...?" By inserting one of the vocab words, the students could practice pointing to the objects around the room as the teacher asks them in Spanish (or answering which room they could find it.) The idea for this assignment was inspired by a 6 year old Indian girl who I tutored in Spanish. She loved this game!

Una pelicula: Making movies

The past couple weeks we have been working on making movies through using a series of still pictures to teach a certain topic. I chose to teach about "Hispanohablantes en el mundo" or "Spanish-speaking people in the world." It was frustrating at times to figure out the movie-making software, but in the end it was well worth the work! I feel like I accomplished a lot through my efforts and I can not wait to see everyone's finished results. (I posted the video below!)

I also took the mid-term today, which was a little more difficult than I anticipated. I studied and read the chapters, but I am not very good at test-taking. I like working on projects to portray the information learned instead of tests. Hopefully the work I have done in this class and the projects I have to show for it will make up for it!