Cinco

Today was mostly remembering. The class had to remember vocabulary. They repeated words in spanish and then translated them as a class. Instead of everyone yelling out at the same time the teacher could do the random picking of a student to answer the questions to make sure everyone's participating and to see if a student is struggling with a certain word. Then the class stood in a circle and passed a ball around the circle to spell out the vocabulary words. The teacher would say the word or phrase like "i'm thirsty" then the class would say "tengo sed" and then pass the ball around and each student would say one letter and spell it out as a class. The students weren't allowed to tell each other what letters to say but they all say together what the vocabulary word is so it didn't help with vocabulary review just with how to spell the words. The good thing with the activity was that when they mispelled the word the teacher wouldn't say what they messed up only that they messed up so they'd have to correct the class and other people would spell the word. The bad thing was that the class got really into it so there was a lot of pressure on the individuals if they weren't good at spelling. I'd say the learning goal was that the class would all be able to comfortably spell the vocabuary words by the end of the period.