Mrs. Warfel
World Languages: Spanish
Sept. 2011
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
PreK
Week 1
Introductions & Recall of last
year’s materials:
Classroom rules &
procedures
Ask & answer for one’s
name
Counting 1-31
Follow simple
commands (TPR)
Bienvenidos Unit of Viva espanol
textbook:
Lessons 1-2
Spanish in the US
Spanish in English
Ask & answer for
someone else’s name
rd
(3 person)
Introductions & Recall of last
year’s materials:
Classroom rules &
procedures
Ask & answer for one’s
name
Counting 1-31
Follow simple commands (TPR)
Introductions & Recall of last
year’s materials:
Classroom rules &
procedures
Ask & answer for one’s
name
Counting 1-31
Follow simple commands (TPR)
Build background on learning
Spanish:
Access background on
TV program with
Spanish (Dora, Handy
Manny, etc.)
Song & Greeting “Hola”
#1-5
Unit 1 of Viva Espanol textbook:
Lessons 1-2
Cognates
Classroom objects
Plurals
Simple commands
Unit 3 of Viva Espanol textbook:
Lesson 1
Calendar routine
Numbers 1-31, by tens
to 100
Aztec calendar
Maya numbers
Song: “Cada dia de la
semana”
Recall & Introduce:
Greeting “hola”
#1-5
Ask & answer Como
estas? Bien, mal or mas
o menos
Number song
Week 3
Lessons 1-2
Salutations
Introductions
Ask & answer how one
feels
Lessons 3& 4
Review vocabulary of
classroom objects
Questions who/ what
Plurals
Definite articles (el, la,
los, las)
Lesson 1, Unit 3
Ask & answer for a
date, when an event
will occur
Days of the week,
months, number
Recall & Introduce:
Greeting “Buenos dias”
Pass the “Sombrero”
Como estas? Question
Color azul
#1-5
Skills and
Concepts
-To communicate basic
introduction & greetings,
mathematic concept (numbers
for counting, simple calculations)
in Spanish.
-Basic understanding of the
connections between the English
and Spanish language & culture.
-To use cognates to understand
new vocabulary.
-To identify familiar people,
places, and objects based on oral
and/or simple written
descriptions.
-To understand grammar terms:
definite articles, nouns, plural
-To communicate basic
introduction & greetings,
mathematic concept (numbers
for counting, simple calculations,
calendar/ dates) in Spanish.
-To identify distinctive cultural
product (i.e. Aztec Calendar)
-To imitate an authentic song in
Spanish
-To communicate basic
Week 2
introduction & greetings,
mathematic concept (numbers
for counting) in Spanish.
-Basic understanding of the
concept of other languages
spoken in the World.
Mrs. Warfel
Oct. 2011
Social studies, music, art,
literature, and science
World Languages: Spanish
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
PreK
Holiday Thematic Unit: El dia
de los muertos
Storybook : “The Spirit of Tio
Fernando” by Janice Levy
Access background
knowledge:
Halloween vs. El dia
de los muertos
View & discuss what
is video: El dia de los
muertos by Arizona
University
Website: Journey
North-Symbolic
Monarch Butterfly
Migration
Project: creating a calavera
mask
Culture connection to
holiday decorations &
traditions (foods,
costumes)holiday
Reinforcing meaning
behind the holiday &
related voc.
Holiday Thematic Unit: El dia
de los muertos
Access background
knowledge:
Halloween vs. El dia
de los muertos
View & discuss:
Video: “Intro ducing
culture w/ El dia de
los muertos”
Song: “El dia de los
muertos”
Project: creating &
deticate an “ofrenda”
Voc. Realted to items
found on an
“ofrenda”
Culture connection to
holiday decorations &
traditions (foods,
costumes)holiday
Reinforcing meaning
behind the holiday &
voc.
Holiday Thematic Unit: El dia
de los muertos
Video: “El dia de los muertos”
by Teacher’s Discovery
Access background
knowledge:
Halloween vs. El dia
de los muertos
View & discuss what
is El dia de los
muertos (Venn
Diagram)
Project: creating a “calaca”
View from internet
various calacas by
Mexican artisans
Culture connection to
holiday decorations &
traditions (foods,
costumes)holiday
Reinforcing meaning
& holiday voc.
Holiday Thematic Unit: El dia
de los muertos
Storybook : “Clatter Bash” by
Richard Keep
Access background
knowledge:
Halloween
decorations
Read & discuss
images in the
storybook
Vocabulary: flores,
colors (Amarillo,
anaranjado, blanco,
rojo)
Culture connection to
holiday decorations &
traditions (foods,
costumes)holiday
Reinforcing numbers
& colors
-To compare and contrast
holidays of 2 cultures.
-To identify aspects of the
Mexican holiday “El dia de los
muertos”
-importance of monarchbutterfly
migration
-To compare and contrast
holidays of 2 cultures.
-To identify aspects of the
Mexican holiday “El dia de los
muertos”.
-To compare and contrast
holidays of 2 cultures.
-To identify aspects of the
Mexican holiday “El dia de los
muertos”.
-To compare and contrast
holidays of 2 cultures.
-To identify basic aspects of the
Mexican holiday “El dia de los
muertos”.
Mrs. Warfel
Nov. 2011
World Languages: Spanish
Grade 4
Lessons 1-2
Salutations
Introductions
Ask & answer how one
feels
Culture: how Spanishspeaking greet each
other and Spanish
names and last names
Website; “Symbolic Monarch
Butterfly”
updates and culture
connections: school in
the regions of the
butterfly winter’s
sanctuaries, awareness
of international
community,
Map reading & using
Google map to locate
distance in metric
Math, Social Studies,
Language Arts
-To communicate basic
introduction & greetings,
mathematic concept (numbers
for counting, simple calculations)
in Spanish.
-Basic understanding of the
connections between the English
and Spanish language & culture.
Grade 5
Unit 3 Viva Espanol textbook
Lesson 1:
Calendar related voc.
Asking & giving dates
Asking & answering
When? (Cuando)
Name common places
in town (i.e. el cine, la
escuela, la casa, etc.)
Use numbers into the
hundreds
Using numbers in
simple numerical
operations
(multiplication,
addition,
substraction)
What is a “plaza”?
Aztec Calendar &
Maya numbers
- Mathematic concepts (numbers
Grade 6
Unit 4 Viva Espanol textbook
Lesson 1:
Class subjects, places
in school
Ask & answer what
one is going to do.
Verbs related to class
activities
Future tense w/ the
verb “ir a + infinitive”
Use numbers into the
hundreds
Discuss what are
schools like in Spanish
speaking countries
Grade PreK
- Mathematic concepts (numbers
for counting, simple calculations)
in Spanish.
- Basic understanding of the
connections between the English
and Spanish language & culture.
-to communicate dates, when,
and where
for counting, simple calculations)
in Spanish.
- Basic understanding of the
connections between the English
and Spanish language & culture.
-To communicate what one is
going to do related to school
activities
-To communicate basic
introduction & greetings,
mathematic concept (numbers
for counting) in Spanish.
Recall & Introduce:
Greeting “hola”
Buenos dias and Buenas
tardes
#1-10
Colors café and amarillo
Ask & answer Como
estas? Bien, mal or mas
o menos
Numbers:
songs
Recognizing when
said #1-10 in order
Counting and making
graphs, comparison
using mas or menos
(more or less)
Storybooks:
“Cool Cats Counting”
“My Color, my World”