Week of Monday, Oct. 14th

6th Grade Exploring Languages: B day had one day of learning German family body vocabulary last week. This means that they will play Jeopardy on Monday and have their Test on Wednesday, October 16th. I will collect completed German packets on the day of the test. The bottom of page 5 will be empty. Their German & family projects posted on Google Classroom are still due today, Monday, October 14th. I printed instructions for any students who did not have computer access or were having trouble with technology at home. A day will learn about German culture on Tuesday. I explained their German family and body vocabulary projects last Friday instead because it was a half day. On Thursday, they will play Jeopardy. Their projects are due on Thursday as well. The following Monday, October 21st will be their German test. I will collect packets then. Study using Quizlet.com. Remember to study culture in the German packets as well.

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes:  Students will continue learning about animals this week. We will also learn to create singular and plural sentences using grammar rules in Spanish. Notes will be written in class and posted on Google Classroom. The unit 2 test is scheduled for Friday, October 18th. These concepts can be studied on Quizlet.com using 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3 flashcards. “Learn” is a great activity to use on Quizlet.com. Students will have a variety of practice activities with partners, group work, & grammar activities.

8th grade Yearlong:  The next quiz (focusing on ser, using negatives, accents, tildes & punctuation) is scheduled for Wednesday, October 16th. Ch. 1 Grammar 2 notes in student notebooks should be studied. These notes are also posted on Google Classroom if they are lost. Two quizlet sets that can be studied are Ch. 1 Subject Pronouns & Ch. 1 Subject Pronouns with verbs. Remind.com messages are sent out about upcoming quizzes. If you do not receive a message about a quiz or test by text or email, please email me at jedrzem@dearbornschools.org. Use notes & Quizlet.com to study material at home. We will complete writing activities, partner speaking activities & a chapter review to prepare for the chapter 1 test. Gracias 🙂

Week of Monday, October 7th

6th Grade Exploring Languages: B day will learn German culture on Tuesday and play Jeopardy on Thursday. Their test will be the following Monday, October 14th. I will collect completed German packets then. A day will learn German days & months on Monday, colors on Wednesday and culture on Friday. Jeopardy & the test will be the following Tuesday and Thursday. Study using Quizlet.com.

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes:  Students will take their unit 1 test today. We will then begin learning about colors and animals this week. Notes that will be written in class and posted on Google Classroom. These concepts can be studied on Quizlet.com using 2.1 & 2.2 flashcards. “Learn” is a great activity to use on Quizlet.com. Students will have a variety of practice activities with partners, group work, & grammar activities.

8th grade Yearlong:  The quiz scheduled for Friday, October 4th was moved to the following Monday, October 7th. It will cover numbers, days, months, & questions. All study items were posted on Google Classroom. Remind.com messages are sent out about upcoming quizzes. If you do not receive a message about a quiz or test by text or email, please email me at jedrzem@dearbornschools.org. Use notes & Quizlet.com to study material at home. We will learn about the Spanish alphabet this week and grammar concepts: ser, using negatives, accents, tildes & punctuation. My plan was to have quizzes each Friday, but it seems to be moved little by little to different days of the week. I will keep you posted on Remind.com for our next grammar quiz! Gracias 🙂

Week of Monday, Sept. 30th-Oct. 4th

6th Grade Exploring Languages: B day will learn German numbers on Monday, days & months on Wednesday, and colors on Friday. Pages 1-4 should be complete by the end of the week. A day will begin their German unit on Tuesday and learn German numbers on Thursday. Pages 1-2 should be complete by the end of the week. Study using Quizlet.com.

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes:  Students will to makes objects & people plural in Spanish this week. They will also learn additional questions and answers. Notes that will be written in class and posted on Google Classroom will be 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3. These concepts can also be studied on Quizlet.com. Students will have a variety of practice activities with partners, group work, & grammar activities. We plan on having our next Unit 1 test on Monday, October 7th.

8th grade Yearlong:  The quiz scheduled for Friday, September 27th was moved to the following Monday, September 30th because of technology iLearn complications. Students will still have their chapter 1 vocab 2 test on Friday, October 4th which will cover numbers, days, months, & the alphabet learned this week. Remind.com messages are sent out about upcoming quizzes. If you do not receive a message about a quiz or test by text or email, please email me at jedrzem@dearbornschools.org. Use notes & Quizlet.com to study material at home.

Week of Monday, September 23rd

6th Grade Exploring Languages: B day will take their first Spanish test on Tuesday, September 23rd. We will then start learning German greetings on Thursday. A day will learn about family & body vocabulary on Monday, play Jeopardy on Wednesday and take their first Spanish test on Friday, September 27th. I will be collecting completed packets on the day of the test. Study using Quizlet.com this week!

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes:  Students will have their first test today, Monday, September, 23rd. We will then learn about additional people and objects in the classroom this week. We will learn questions and answers to additional questions. Students will have a variety of practice activities with partners, group work, & grammar activities.

8th grade Yearlong:  We will learn about pronouns this week and focus on numbers, days, months, & alphabet. Students will take notes and have their first grammar quiz on Friday, September 27th. Remind.com messages are sent out the day before. If you do not receive a message about a quiz or test by text or email, please email me at jedrzem@dearbornschools.org. Use notes & Quizlet.com to study material at home.

Week of Monday, September 16th

6th Grade Exploring Languages: A day will learn about Spanish colors on Tuesday and then learn about culture on Thursday. B day will learn Spanish family & body on Monday, culture on Wednesday and play Jeopardy on Friday. Their first Spanish test will be on Tuesday, September 23rd. I will be collecting completed packets on the day of the test. Study using Quizlet.com this week!

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes:  Students will continue to learn about class objects & people this week. We will also learn about Spanish numbers 1-100. Jeopardy will be played on Friday. The first test will be on Monday, September, 23rd. Study using notes, bell work & Quizlet.com. B.2, B.3, & B.4 notes should be used to study.

8th grade Yearlong:  We will continue to learn more greetings this week and focus on subjects & verbs. Students will take notes and present partner conversations this week. Their first vocab quiz will be on Friday, September 20th. Remind.com messages are sent out the day before. If you do not receive a message about a quiz or test by text or email, please email me at jedrzem@dearbornschools.org. Use Quizlet.com to study material at home.

Week of Monday, Sept. 9th

6th Grade Exploring Languages: Please make sure to have a folder, pencil, red pen & 2 Expo markers for class. Also make sure that the “Remind.com” form has been turned in within Google Classroom. A day will learn about Spanish numbers on Monday, days & months on Wednesday and Colors on Friday. Homework will be to complete one page each day (pages: 2, 3 & 4). B day will learn Spanish days & months on Tuesday as well as Spanish colors on Thursday. Homework will be to complete one page each day (pages: 3 & 4). Study using Quizlet.com this week!

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes:  Please make sure to have a folder, pencil, red pen, 2 notebooks & 2 Expo markers for class. Students will continue learning about greetings this week. The cartoon project will be due on Tuesday, September 10th. We will also learn about class objects & people this week focusing on definite and indefinite articles. We will take notes during class and complete a lot of partner conversational activities in class!

8th grade Yearlong:  Please make sure to have a folder, pencil, red pen, 2 notebooks & 2 Expo markers for class. One more notebook will be needed during our last chapter. Students will have their first quiz on Tuesday, September 10th. Quizzes will usually be every Friday, but I wanted students to feel comfortable in studying for their first quiz over the weekend. We will learn more greetings this week and work on a cartoon project. Students will also learn about subjects & verbs using grammar lessons this week. Notes will be taken almost daily!  Please use Quizlet.com to study material at home.

Week of Monday, Sept. 2nd

6th Grade Exploring Languages: Please make sure to have a folder, pencil, red pen & 2 Expo markers for class. A day will focus on completing their Google Classroom, Quizlet & iBlog sign in. Students were able to review PBIS strategies today in class as well. They will learn Spanish greetings with their new packets on Thursday. Homework will be to complete the first page at home that day. B day will learn Spanish greetings with their new packets on Wednesday of this week. They will learn Spanish number on Friday. Homework will be to complete pages 1 & 2 on both days.

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes:  Please make sure to have a folder, pencil, red pen, 2 notebooks & 2 Expo markers for class. Students began learning the alphabet today. They will focus on learning greetings this week and will complete a cartoon in Spanish. We will take notes during class and complete a lot of partner conversational activities in class!

8th grade Yearlong:  Please make sure to have a folder, pencil, red pen, 2 notebooks & 2 Expo markers for class. One more notebook will be needed during our last chapter. Students began taking notes about Spain in class today. We will have our first quiz next Tuesday, September 10th. Quizzes will usually be every Friday, but I wanted students to feel comfortable in studying for their first quiz over the weekend. We will review concepts in class tomorrow and students will learn Spanish greetings the rest of this week. Notes will be taken almost daily! 🙂 Please use Quizlet.com to study material at home.

Week of Monday, August 26th

Witamy! Bienvenidos! Wilkommen! Bienvenue!

Greetings and welcome to Smith’s Foreign Language Blog. During the first week of school, we will be getting to know each other, going over Smith’s PBIS procedures, dress code policy, classroom expectations, and getting our supplies gathered. Learning the curriculum should begin at the end of this week. Please click on the SYLLABI link on the top of the blog to view the classroom supplies needed for each grade level. Students will also be asked to visit Google Classroom after receiving a classroom code to register in order to provide parent contact information for Remind.com, verify that the syllabus as been read, and allowing pictures/videos taken in the classroom. I look forward to getting to know each and every student this year!!!

Anyone who would like to register onto Google Classroom before the 1st week of school, please check out which hour you have foreign language on your schedule and use the following code to join my class.

Google Class Codes
A Day (1st Hour): 51jjcv
B Day (1st Hour): z13fos3
2nd Hour: gvrafj
3rd Hour: scmdqp
4th Hour: iyqv73
5th Hour: ia7ezv

Last 7 School Days

6th Grade Exploring Languages: B day will learn additional sign language concepts and play ASL Bingo. On Friday, A day will have their end of the year cultural food day. B day will have cultural food day on Wednesday, June 12th. A & B days have field trips scheduled on Tuesday and Thursday of next week. We will create multi-language board games during that time depending on which students will attend first hour Exploring Languages.

7th & 8th Grade Conversational Spanish classes: Students in 6th hour will have cultural food day on Thursday, June 6th during 6th hour. 4th hour will receive their study guides on Thursday and will check their work on Friday. On Friday, 6th hour will receive their study guides and check their work on Monday. Next Tuesday, June 11th will be the day of the final exam. Students will then learn about family and body vocabulary the days following the exam.

8th grade Yearlong: Absent students from last week that did not complete the Spanish final will be working on it this week. 80% is a passing score. Students will be notified this Friday if they move on to Spanish 2 in high school. For our final days of school, students will be learning about the culture of food, the culture of dance, about body vocabulary and about famous historical people in the Spanish-speaking world. The Cedar Point field trip will be next Tuesday. Cultural Food day for 5th hour is Wednesday, June 12th and Cultural Food day for 3rd hour is Thursday June 13th. The school dance will be next Friday, on the last day half day of school.

PTSA Information

Looking for some easy ways to support the PTSA over summer break? Listed below are three simple ways to do so that require little effort!

Easy Ways to Support the PTSA!

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Shoparoo!

Forget cutting labels or selling door to door to raise money for schools. Shoparoo is a free app for iOS and Android phones that allows anyone to take pictures of their shopping receipts and earn cash donations for their schools!
Just snap a picture of your grocery receipt on your smartphone, and voila, you’ve made an instant cash donation! You can also take pictures of your non-grocery receipts (from clothing stores, electronics stores, restaurants, home improvement stores, etc.) for entries into Shoparoo’s cash donation sweepstakes that can reward a school up to $15,000!

Please feel free to email Yasmine Hicks at yasminehicks@hotmail.com with questions. Thank you for your continued support!

Yasmine Hicks