The students had done research projects on an animal in science class, and then produced a video all in Spanish where they read aloud their report.
Here is me listening to Ally - it was a 3 minute oral presentation with sound effects of wolves in nature and pictures of wolves in their natural habitat. Lobo - wolf in Spanish.
It was pretty neat to listen to Ally speak that much Spanish. I had one of the parents who is fluent in Spanish listen to it and he said it was amazing. The accent is correct and sounded so natural.
Ally pretty much ditched me for the whole breakfast. It was fine - but I was a bit out of my element in the Spanish class room, not only was their the video, but also a project about an egg drop. All in Spanish. Thankfully another parent explained that one to me.
In the English room I finally tracked her down and forced her to pose for a picture with her colony pamphlet. She chose Pennsylvania, because that is where Grandma Debbie & Poppy live!
In small groups they researched an explorer and then did a poster as a group presentation about that explorer. Ally's group did Samuel de Champlain.
I especially liked the section on his death that said "When he died he remained in his coffin for a couple of years, in a church while a stand alone chapel was built to hold the remains." Classic 5th grade paraphrasing!
The students met up with their choral music teacher in the cafeteria and sang 3 songs for us. It was really great, especially since they only see this teacher every 3 weeks - with instrumental music this year it cuts back on chorus.
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