Happy New Year! Another year has come and gone! 2018 was a big year for me! I married the love of my life, we took amazing trips to Italy and Myrtle Beach, the CAPS won the Stanley Cup finally (and we were in DC to enjoy every second of the win,) I was named Maryland World Language Teacher of the Year (ek! still pinching myself!) and my husband and I are expecting a little girl at the end of April! I presented at both the MFLA Spring and Fall Conferences in 2018 and also at the NECTFL 2018 conference with a dear colleague and friend of mine Dr. Arlene White. She took me to see my FIRST broadway show in NYC while we were there for NECTFL- it was fascinating! I rang in 2019 with sickness. Fever, cough, chills, aches, the whole 9 yards- pregnant and sick are not a good combo! Today was the first day back to school after winter break and having just shaken the fever less than 24 hours ago, I can say it was a long one! I do find comfort in how amazing my students are when I am not feeling my best. I am usually bouncing off the walls, so as soon as I am not, they know something is up. They are kind, compassionate people and I love that we have developed a culture of caring in my classroom. Today we started class with this infographic and discussed our own New Year's Eve/Day traditions. We played a high five game that allowed students to interact with each other in the target language to recap our vacations! Students started with the question ¿Qué hiciste durante las vacaciones? When they high fived someone, they answered it for themselves, but then they took on the answer of their partner- and the next time they high fived someone, they had to tell them what their partner did. This allowed us to review the first person and the third person preterite tense. We played this game for about 2 minutes! I loved listening to the kids self-correct and peer-correct each other as they spoke. After everyone was seated, we reviewed what each other did. I asked the students, ¿Qué hizo_____?" and multiple students responded! I love this game and use it for many different purposes! It was a nice way to get them chatting in Spanish at the start of class! After this activity, we discussed New Year's goals and resolutions. We used this infographic and did an interpretive reading activity with it. Following the activity students came up with their own resolutions and outlined a brief plan on how to achieve their goals. We shared our goals as a class and discussed commonalities between what we hoped to achieve in 2019 and what was listed in the infographic. I always love learning about what the kids want to achieve and how they plan to do it! It tells you a lot about your students and who they are. Connections are so important! One of my kids, notorious for eating his lunch throughout the morning, has set a goal to not eat his lunch before his actual lunchtime. Our class is supporting him by giving him a tally mark on the board for each day he comes to 3rd period with his lunch box still full. jajajaja. Hopefully he can make a nice streak out of this! Our class is happy to help! How are you ringing in 2019 in your classes?
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