What's new?

This was the final week of the trimester for my school, so I will have a number of new students next week.  This week, Spanish 1 was learning about food.  One activity the students engaged in was an interactive questionaire about foods.  They had a list of quesetions in Spanish like, ¿Te gusta el pescado? (Do you like fish?)  They had to find someone in the room that would answer "yes" to that question.  They had a list of questions, so it was their job to gather signatures speaking Spanish and using the new vocabluary.  I monitored their participation.  Their participation was excellent; a very high percentage if not 100% engaged and participated in the activity, but not everyone used Spanish the entire time.  I think they enjoyed it and learned from it.

As I get new students next week, it will be interesting to see how they react to all the activities we do involving movement.  I saw great results with the students I had first trimester, so we will see if the data continues to say what it has said up to this point.