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  • Last-minute differentiation

    As Mr. Willard, my fearless leader, says, "There are some kids even God couldn't get to pass." These are the only ones I am to permit to earn an F in Spanish I or Spanish II. And so, I have cobbled together a few maneu…

  • Pop song skeleton

    The math teacher who speaks no Spanish helped me. Then I ran it by the science teacher who tried to teach Spanish before they had a real Spanish teacher. And finally I got the math/science teacher who remembers just ab…

  • Too much, but not enough

    Let me just say that I am all for scaffolding, collaborative group work, and "front-loading" a lesson with a picture book. But I have not a clue as to how to work it into a Spanish I or II curriculum without just making…

  • Ortoguerrilla

    That's right: spelling war.<br><br> I kind of made this up on the fly this morning, and then I really liked it! It helped review the numbers vocabulary and letters/spelling at the same time. Here's how it g…

  • Koosh procedure

    A step-by-step guide on how I created to create a koosh smartboard game like this one--not so much descriptive of the process I used before as a more efficient version of it. This is kind of a matching game, where the s…

  • 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…

  • ¿Qué dice la gente?

    I was excited about putting together my very own Family-Feud-style game (¿Qué dice la gente? = Spanish version). I had the class write down 3 things they could "hacer" (do or make)3 things they could "tener" (have)2 thi…

  • Note giving

    There are some things that just come to me, like language, but then some that come natural and seem obvious to the populace at large require intense labor and contemplation on my part. I would say note giving is one of …

  • Dumb smart board!

    Either the infatuation with smart board games lasts no longer than a calendar month, or there's something wrong with the games I'm coming up with. I think some of what might be wrong with them I can blame on the smart b…

  • Smart tricks

    Having wrangled a smart board to wow parents at "meet the teacher night" with my class webpage a couple of weeks ago (and being told to keep it rather than let it gather dust), I have been trying out some new technologic…