[ola] Re: second day and question
- From: Kate Kuravackal <donakuravackal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:35:19 -0700
Gracias Antonio! Tune for the dias de la semana/lunes es feeooo song since
I wasn't present with Sherman? Loving the ole ole ole of the 1-15 song!
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Antonio Torres <
antonio_torres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Los días de la semana
> song.docx<https://docs.google.com/a/ddouglas.k12.or.us/file/d/0B6BAbk1RGipxUFNzRm52VDFDaE0/edit?usp=drive_web>
> Here is the song--hope you all can open it using google drive:)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Antonio Torres <
> antonio_torres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hola Darcy!!!
>>
>> Gracias por las respuestas a todas nuestras preguntas:)
>>
>> I have a question about the "Se Motivado" (wich my dept is calling
>> "Cultural engagement"...do you have a list of ideas of things students can
>> do? how many units do they have to do?and where in their journal do
>> students do that?how do you grade them?etc...For my dept, we are making
>> this category 10% of their grade....Gracias!!
>>
>> For all of you who were there when Sherman sang the Spanish song about
>> the days of the week, I am attaching a copy of the lyrics--I am sure
>> Sherman won't mind if we borrow it:) (sorry, my attachments are not
>> working on gmail right now--tried 10 times...I will send it later:(
>>
>> Check out this youtube channel:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moiW6QLw0w4
>>
>> there is some awesome stuff I will be using with my first year students
>> this year!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Antonio
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:05 AM, rogers.dr <rogersdr25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> For the journals, we go by number, title & date (for ex: #10, Syria,
>>> 10/9). They are responsible to write that on every entry (whether
>>> theres one or three to a page) clearly & visibly so they can find it
>>> quickly. Circling the number so it stood out helped even more!
>>>
>>>
>>> Enviado desde mi iPhone
>>>
>>> El sep 5, 2013, a las 10:16 a.m., JoAnna Coleman <joannac@xxxxxxx>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>> Today my students filled out a student information form that I do
>>> every year (age, name, interests, how they did last year in Spanish,
>>> contact info, etc...) - for Monday we are going to start talking about
>>> interests and likes/dislikes, so I am pulling the info from their sheets as
>>> the vocabulary that we will be learning :)
>>>
>>> Question about the journal: if I am handing out some handouts
>>> (calendar, songs, etc...) and kids are writing notes and homework in their
>>> journal on a daily basis, how do you all keep things organized? I can't
>>> really number pages because kids write bigger or smaller or more or less,
>>> do you number entries? just go by date? I want them to be able to quickly
>>> find certain entries - thanks!
>>>
>>> JoAnna Coleman
>>> Spanish Teacher
>>> Wilson High School
>>> 503-916-5280 ext. 75231
>>> joannac@xxxxxxx
>>> http://profecoleman.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf
>>> of Jody Soberon [JodySo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:57 AM
>>> *To:* ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> *Subject:* [ola] First day HELP! and awesomeness
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Yesterday was my first day of classes. Every class went as planned, was
>>> awesome and responsive and then 7th period, a Spanish 2 class with 38
>>> students, came on. They were excessively chatty, in English. And there are
>>> about 8 students who are the disruptive type and talk out in English a LOT,
>>> 3 of whom just really don´t care. We only achieved half of what we did in
>>> all other classes and got no vocab up, though we did in every other class.
>>> 5 were sent out of the circle for a minute, 1 was sent out of the circle
>>> and then outside the class for a minute twice!
>>>
>>> So it looks like I am going to have to debrief TODAY with them and not
>>> during English days/week. It can't wait. My thoughts:
>>>
>>> -Have a discussion about trust and decency
>>> -Talk about the effect of breaking out into English which switches the
>>> brain. Somewhere I heard that research says that it takes 7-8 minutes to
>>> get back to before the brain switch. Can someone hook me up with that
>>> research?
>>>
>>> I also plan to go over consequences including what one of the members of
>>> my PLC shared with me. It is a Debrief behavioral sheet that the student
>>> has to fill out. I'm going to try this for students who have to leave the
>>> room for disruptions or incesssant English. The doc itself is in English,
>>> but if I can nip bad behavior in the bud in the beginning, the whole class
>>> will benefit. (I've attached it for your perusal.
>>>
>>> In other thoughts or comments? Thank you and happy OWLing,
>>>
>>> Jody
>>>
>>>
>>> Foreign Languages
>>> Brookings Harbor High School
>>>
>>>
>>
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