Hi friends, I HAD To forward this one from Stel's student. Go OWL! Spanish teachers who are sympathetic readers should be able to get the jist of it. Here is some info. I'll add a bit of background info after. FYI, This student, Eva, was allowed to write this homework assignment in English, but has decided to write her journal entries in Spanish. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stel Schmalz <sschmalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2014-11-06 23:27 GMT-05:00 Subject: Eva R To: Ashley Uyaguari <auyaguari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Describe how you have been using Spanish outside of the classroom. Give details: Afurea de la clase, yo hablo Espanol un pocito. Una vez, yo hablo por lo 30 minutes en una conversation consista con mi hermana. Es bueno preactica perra alla y yo porque alla no esta en una clase de Espanol ahora. Nostoros habla de la tiempo y que es muy frio y como los does no te gustan la frio. Es muy comico porque soy mas bueno en la Espanol de conversation, pera alla tiene mas grammatica de yo. Estonses en la conversation, yo hablo mas rapido pera alla habla de totals me errores. Yo say duspues porque la OWL espanol es mas bueno de la normal version de ancenar Espanol. Porque los estudiantos sabe la idioma en serio, y es possibblemente que personas habla en la idioma, el oppesto es los personas que saben mucho gramatica pero no possiblemente habla en una conversation. I taught Eva's sister for one of her years before we started OWL and she hasn't had the OWL experience at all. Eva started OWL as a Novice-Low and is at the beginning of her third year. ________ Are your kids making this connection? I get goosebumps when they tell me things like this and when Stel passes me info about the amazing things happening in her class. OWL love to you all, Ashley