Thanks Ruth!! I love the colors activity:) Antonio David Douglas High School On Monday, August 19, 2013, Ruth Whalen Crockett wrote: > Wow! Jody, this is awesome! I love your tossing criteria. Today I > found myself saying out loud to my colleagues, "As long as you're speaking > Spanish and building community, it's all good!" There is a beauty in > simplicity. Yes, I know there is more to teaching Spanish, but I also > don't want to let too much get in the way. > > Here is a fun activity we practiced in preparation for kids. Collect a > bunch of paint sample cards from your local hardware store. Pass them out > in the circle. Now begin to imagine all the conversation starters. > > In pairs or small groups... > Five words to describe the color > A place you visited that is related to the color > A food you ate is summer > A movie, book or piece of art > Etc... > > Then I separated the group in two. One group was the shirt group, the > other the pants group. They had to match up with someone from the other > group that went with their color. Then we voted on what pairs had the best > fashion sense. > > We also separated into cool and warm color groups and talked about > feelings related to the color group. It was a great ice breaker to get to > know each other and it felt like the possibilities were endless. > > One piece of advice, before passing out color samples cut off the names of > the colors, they can be distracting. > > Here's to another great year! > > Ruthie > > ________________________________________ > From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> > [ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>] > on behalf of Jody Soberón [jodysoberon@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>] > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:29 PM > To: ola > Subject: [ola] Tossing years of worksheets, etc > > Hello fellow OWLers, > > It was fabulous to meet so many of you this past week! I am having a bit > of a recycling/tossing dilemma: I have years of my own others' work in 4 > tall filing cabinets and am hoping for some helpful clarification and for > you all to tell me to TOSS IT if > > 1) It has instructions in English > 2) Is grammar based > 3) is worksheets from text days. (I haven't used a text book in 6 yrs.) > 4) It is vocab sheets or > > I am thinking about keeping it if > > 1) It can be used for HW or absence make-up and has cultural or review > value > 2) It can be used for review when there is a sub. > etc. > > Thanks for your input!! > > Jody > >