Required Spanish Reading

Dear Parents:

This week your child will start reading their first Spanish novel. Here are the novels each grade will be reading.

6th Grade – Berto y Sus Buenas Ideas by Blaine Ray
7th Grade – Pobre Ana by Blaine Ray
8th Grade – Pio Pista Level I by Michael Miller

6th Grade Reader

7th grade reader

8th Grade Reader

I am in the process of securing a class-set of each novel. In the meantime students will begin by reading excerpts from the book.

Your child may check-out the required reading Spanish book from the St. Paul School library, however I recommend purchasing a book so your child may have their own book in order to make notes in the margins, highlight and underline important parts of the story.

Below, I have enclosed links to several websites where books can be purchased. They range in price from $6.00 – $9.00.  Pio Pista is also available for download on Itunes.

The required reading will support the Reading portion of their Spanish grade which counts 20% of their overall grade.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Ms. Brehm

Berto y Sus Buenas Ideas by Blaine Ray ($5.79)
Available at:  www.teachersdiscovery.com

Pobre Ana by Blaine Ray ($5.79 – $8.00)
Available at http://www.teachersdiscovery.com and http://www.amazon.com

Pio Pista by Michael Miller ($3.99 download / $7.00 book)
Available at http://www.teachersdiscovery.com and iTunes Downloads

Spanish Comic

8th Grade Spanish students created their original comics using comic-creating software from the Internet.  The assignment was to create a comic entirely in Spanish using the Target Language from their recent Unit: Let’s Go Out To Eat.  Comics were required to have an anfitrión (host), clientes (customers) and a camarero (waiter).  Enjoy some of the student’s creative work below.

Complex Sentences

Students work together to create complex sentences in Spanish using student-made manipulative.

7th Grade Google Voice Assignment

Using the first 3 circles, call Senorita Brehm’s Google Voice account and leave her a message in Spanish talking about what you like to do and what you don’t like to do.  Be creative and have fun!  Due tomorrow by 7:40AM.

Spanish small group work

Students begin a Unit called “What Do You Like To Do?”  Today, they worked on defining key terms in the Target Language.  Students from each group translate a set of Spanish words related to expressing likes and dislikes.  Then members of each group rotate around the room to share their words with all the other groups.  This activity is called a Jigsaw.  In the end, each group will have a complete set of vocabulary words.