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Room 100B: Mrs. Maria Mejicanos
Background and Education
Elementary School Teaching Degree from Escuela de Maestras Dr. Alfredo Carrillo Ramirez. Guatemala.
Law Degree from Universidad Francisco Marroquin. Guatemala City.
B of A Northeastern Illinois University.
Teaching Experience
I taught Kindergarten for two years in Guatemala City. I have been teaching Spanish for fifteen years.
During the day I taught Spanish in District 97 for ten years, and in the evenings I taught senior
citizens in Berwyn Cicero Council for Aging. During the summer I taught Spanish to adolescents in
Triton College in River Grove.
Additional Responsibilities at SPC
Practical Fine Arts Committee
Problem Solving Team
Noticias de Octubre
During this month the students will be working on the following themes:
1st and 2nd grade: colors, shapes, spatial directions and weather.
In 3rd grade: shapes, description of how many sides and corners they have. They are also learning vocabulary about school, school supplies, and exploring how to use singular/plural nouns.
4th grade: is working with vocabulary related to animals, colors and will continue describing animals.
5th grade: the students are writing dialogues and creating masks to use during class when they can have a conversation in Spanish. It is fun because they give their mask a name; tell how they feel, and if they would like to go eat.
6th grade is working on “ar-er-ir” verbs and telling what they like/dislike.
7th grade is working on Hispanic Heritage month and famous Hispanic Americans.
8th grade is working on the verb “to be”. They will continue exploring the use of this verb by writing a short description of their families and one relative at the time example: Mi mamá es muy buena y bonita. “ES” is the verb to be.
Room 100B: Mrs. Maria Mejicanos
Noticias de Mayo
Kindergarten- Kindergartners have been learning about clothes, counting clothes, directional vocabulary, and subject pronoun YO (me). Comprehension outcomes have been observed though: active participation and physical response. Coming Up: insects, more songs, and Spanish games.
First Grade- First grade students have been learning extended vocabulary on clothes, description of color, and on what body part they wear these clothes example: el sombrero se lleva en la cabeza (the hat goes on the head). They are working on identifying numbers 1-30.
Second Grade- Second grade students have been working on clothes and body parts. They learn descriptive words in order to identify a specific item. Students worked reinforcing previously learned directional vocabulary (up/down, far/close, on top/under, close/far). Coming up: Family.
Third Grade- Third grade students learned ten transports. They cut and color flash cards, wrote the Spanish vocabulary words, and played bingo. Students continued to draw a comic strip with short Spanish statements that tell a story. Coming Up: Las Frutas.
Fourth Grade- Fourth graders worked on transportation. They wrote a song in Spanish about a little boat. Spanish Writing Process: They wrote, spelled, and played with the transportation vocabulary. Coming Up: My house, rooms, and furniture.
Fifth Grade- Students have been working on expanding animals’ vocabulary. They are also learning how to express possessive nouns. During class the students heard “the story of the cat” and followed the story aided by visuals. Later, they wrote their own story and drew the visuals for their story. Coming Up: More stories
Sixth Grade- Sixth grade is learning about possessive nouns and feelings. They worked on a class story applying these concepts. Coming Up: More stories.
Seventh Grade - Seventh grade have been working on use of adjectives, verb to be, body parts, and writing sentences. Coming Up: Family-create a family tree.
Eighth Grade - Eighth grade have been working on description of nouns, Spanish contractions: use of “a” + “el”= al (to the), and personal “a” which doesn’t have English equivalence. Coming Up: “Bajo la Misma Luna” (under the same moon) themes related to immigration- green card- murals in California created by Hispanic artists- immigration law.
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