Lake County Gazette

In eighth grade Spanish, students began the quarter with a unit called "LA COMIDA," meaning "THE FOOD." They learned to discuss their likes and dislikes, order in a restaurant, and describe their food. One of the questions they worked on was, "¿Qué te gusta comer? / What do you like to eat?" Their assignment involved creating a Google Slides presentation with "Me gusta / I like" and "No me gusta / I don’t like" statements accompanied by pictures or GIFs representing each food item. The students then presented their sentences to the class for practice speaking in Spanish. Señora Aldridge reported that they all did "un trabajo fabuloso / a fabulous job. "

In seventh grade, the first unit of the quarter was titled "Yo soy / I am," where students learned how to describe themselves using adjectives. In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine, and adjectives must agree with the noun or pronoun they describe in gender and number. This means if an adjective describes a feminine noun, it must be feminine as well; if the noun is also plural, the adjective will be both feminine and plural. "This is easiest to see when dealing with people since we are either male or female," Señora Aldridge explained. Students completed an assignment creating Google Slides presentations with "Yo soy / I am" and "Yo no soy / I am not" statements along with representative pictures or GIFs. They presented these sentences to the class for Spanish-speaking practice. "Another great experience and it was so much fun to see how the students view themselves!'' said Señora Aldridge.

In sixth grade, students started re-learning some basics of Spanish as their last class with Señora Aldridge had been in first grade. The first unit covered El Alfabeto / The Alphabet, Los Colores / The Colors, and Los Números / The Numbers . Students were assigned tasks such as coloring doce corazones / hearts according to Spanish color words written under them. ''We also had a few assignments where the students had to work on recognizing the Spanish number words,'' said Señora Aldridge.

''¡Estoy muy orgullosa de todos de mis estudiantes! / I am very proud of all my students,'' concluded the teacher.