Tuesday, August 16, 2016

BIENVENIDOS/Welcome to the 2016-2017 School Year


¡Hola y Bienvenidos a la clase de español de la Señora Grimaldi en la escuela Westlake Charter!

I am very excited for the new year and eager to get working with all of your children. I have another website with class syllabus and all the Google calendars for my Spanish classes. Feel free to add your son/daughter to your Google calendar!
You can get to that page by clicking HERE!

If you need to contact me, you can do so through email. 
I try my very best to respond within 24 hours.
agrimaldi @ westlakecharter.com

Our main focus this year is COMMUNICATION!! We need to have our students using all the amazing Spanish they already know! We are continuing with our daily Spanish Enrichment time at home! ALL students are to practice Spanish EVERYDAY!! This is necessary if we want our students to actually begin using the language! Yes, even on the weekends! This should not be a burden but rather a FUN time for kids to be exposed to the language!
They can do many things for their Spanish Enrichment time. 
Some of the things they can do are:
    • Spanish Enrichment @ home is to be done EVERYDAY for 15 minutes a day (5th) and 20 minutes a day for the rest of the grades. Students will keep a log of their time and what they do. There are many activities students can do to practice their Spanish, for example:
      • Watch TV in Spanish
      • Hulu and Netflix can be changed to Spanish voice (not all shows do this)
      • Duolingo 
      • Listen to a Spanish radio station
      • Listen to Spanish music on Pandora, some radio stations to look for:
        • Baladas
        • Rancheras
        • Cumbias
        • Mariachi Fiesta
        • Pop Latino
    • Anything that exposes them to the Spanish language!

We can have our students using Spanish for everyday scenarios, but if they do not practice DAILY.... it might not happen! I NEED YOU! You, THE PARENTS/GUARDIANS to help me out! We can do this! We can have our kiddos using Spanish, but it is not going to happen if WE don't work together!
LET'S DO THIS WESTLAKE FAMILIES!!!

¡¡¡SI SE PUEDE!!!

WE CAN DO IT!!!


Thursday, March 3, 2016

TIP #1


I am going to be sharing many tips that will help your child fill those learning gaps in Spanish!

®Thomas Cook


TIP #1
Download APPs! One of the things we have to do for our kids is to find FUN ways for them to practice Spanish. DUOLINGO is a FUN and EDUCATIONAL app that kids are already familiar with! 

Watch this informational video on what DUOLINGO is and how it works!



Kids 5th through 8th can sign in with their google accounts from school! 
As a teacher I am able to see their progress!

If you have an ITunes account you can search the PODCAST 
sections to subscribe to Spanish lessons!
Here are some examples:


There are many more!!



Thursday, January 7, 2016

Listening to Spanish!

One of the BEST ways you can practice your Spanish is LISTENING TO IT! Our Westlake students have been taking Spanish for many years and are very knowledgable of vocabulary! Listening to Spanish news is an awesome way to put that vocabulary to use!!! 

Grab a piece of paper and a pen and listen to Spanish news and write words down that you know!!! Do this for 5 minutes and see how many words you hear that you know! Keep doing this and you will notice that you will write MORE and MORE words down!

Here is the link to CNN en ESPAÑOL! 
I also placed a direct link on top for easy access!!


Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Learning Spanish on YouTube~ El Señor Jordan

How many times have you searched YouTube for Spanish lessons? Look no MORE!

El Señor Jordan on You Tube has many MANY amazing videos that throughly explain Spanish lessons! 



Friday, October 23, 2015