(Update at a later school they were not into Twitter and we stopped the Spanish accounts). (remember this was 2014 □ They created a new account just for our class, where at the time I posted class reminders, they followed Spanish artists and tweeted in chats during the year. I decided to base the stations around the number one student obsession in my school at the time, Twitter. The goal of the 1st week’s stations was to learn about students, incorporate choice, fun, culture, new 1:1 laptop on the first day.Updated this back to school bundle has everything you need for 1st week stations that we usually do not get to until day 2. Read this blog post to learn more & to get a free slideshow for the game. The key is to end on a high note and keep them wanting more. Some classes want to be timed to play speedball style and beat a score, others tire of it quickly. This can keep going as long as there is high interest. We will then add in “se llama” to tell the name of who the ball came from and where it is going. Once everyone has been introduced, then in the second round the ball will be tossed to another student across the way until everyone has gotten it, and they will need to remember the order. Wienhold” “ ❼ómo te llamas?” and then pass a ball to another student, the first time next to them. NAME GAME SPEEDBALL – Play a name game standing in a circle.INTRO MYSELF – Introduce myself using this Prezi in Spanish with a lot of actions, movement, and enthusiasm.I will ask their name in Spanish, modeling “Me llamo Sra. GREET – Greet all students at the door in Spanish with a smile, handshake, and a seating card.BEFORE CLASS – Spanish music playing and all desks have these seating cards.I know that this year I want them to leave the class having LEARNED something, but the issue is what!?!ģrd year of Teaching – Spanish I 1st Day of Spanish class I was guilty of this myself those first two years since there is always so much business that I want to just get done and checked off my to-do list. The kids come to school not expecting to actually “learn anything” until Monday. This meant syllabus, checking out books, logging into online textbooks, and learning names and procedures. Since we started school on a Thursday, most of the students (and teachers)treated the first two days more as just the beginning of the year business days. Instead of an introduction about myself, I talked in Spanish about pictures of my summer in the past tense ending with a picture of the baby’s room and revealing to them I was pregnant. I followed a lot of what I did in year one and added Martina’s first-day seating. I had three noisy fans running, the lights off and I was just trying my best to not pass out while 20 weeks pregnant. This was due to the fact that without an air conditioner, my room was 90 degrees. In my second year, the first days of school were a blur. (I wish I had read how to survive your first day teaching before day one). Then we did the boring first-day syllabus talk. I also had them fill out an information sheet so I could learn more about them as people. Then, I had everyone introduce themselves and we did some sort of name game, so I could start learning 100+ new names. At that point, most of them freaked out since their previous teachers did not speak a ton of Spanish. I modified Megan’s Prezi to tell them about me in Spanish since I was the only new teacher in the district that year. On my first day of school, my first year of teaching in 2012 I tried to follow a lot of what is mentioned in the Creative Language Class blog. For the sake of learning and growing from the past, here is what I have done over the past two years for the 1st day of Spanish.ġst Day of Spanish Class – 1st Year of Teaching This means that I will have the honor of being in the first class of their high school career. This year I have the special privilege of having the freshman in 1st and 2nd period Spanish I. But, at a school with a total population of around 140 students 9-12, the only students who I need to get to know are the freshman. After 5 summers as a camp counselor, I also have a plethora of ice breakers, name games, and getting-to-know-you activities in my mental bag of tricks. This multitude of ideas came from the amazing bloggers Martina Bex, Laura Sexton, Ben Slavic, & Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell. I have the great problem of having way too many ideas about what to do on the first day of school. _ original 1st Day of Spanish post from 2014!
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