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  • Smart success

    I thought my combining pronouns "game" would fall flat, as there wasn't a whole lot to it. Basically, I selected, perhaps modified, some sentences the students had written to include both a direct object and indirect ob…

  • Re-quiz run-down

    Same quiz, but switched versions: Possessive adjectives still trip them up. All but one did better. Native speakers were spared re-taking for ESL test. I don't plan on calling every single kid who failed this time: Sixty…

  • I like, I wish, I will, I worry

    I like......opening my e-mail to get parent responses on the million words or fewer assignment....my formula for the "Vocabulario y gramática" page 5 stem-changing section: 1. pick the right verb, 2. pick the right e…

  • First day checklist

    Play a little bit of música while they're coming in: first and second benefitted; lunch duty interfered before fourth.Hand out surveys while assigning seats: accomplished first and second; lunch duty interfered before…

  • To catch up

    I am officially caught up on sleep. I am not awake at this outrageous hour on a weeknight because I'm biding my time between scarcely spaced feedings and/or diaper changes, but because the little man and I napped good a…

  • Dumb it down??

    I met with some very concerned parents on Friday over their child's Spanish II grades. He's apparently made it to his senior year with almost all A's and B's, so an F justifiably set off alarms. He's a good kid who ask…

  • Letter responses and ensuing propositions

    Alas, there were no stunning revelations in the letters yesterday, and the ones that one might interpret as taking "my side" did nothing to balance the ones that straight-up attacked me. Well, the one. One might wonder…

  • Strategy Re-Hash: Espanich Round 2

    Grouping* Method: Print small cardstock strips containing each verb students are responsible for (this time, "+ infinitives"--verbs commonly followed by other verbs). Pair students, and tell them to create 2 different …

  • Panic? Me?

    I used to panic when I couldn't find my flash drive. Usually it had fallen off my key chain as I exited my house, my husband's place of business, or I simply left it at the wrong computer. I was completely distraught u…

  • Today's Do's and Don'ts

    Do bring the country books and the mobile computer lab (that some brilliant person suggested adding to the media center not too long ago) to your classroom for students to choose topics and begin researching cultural ch…