Adiós 2016, hola 2017. Time to start making – and keeping – New Year’s Resolutions. My district returned to school on Jan 3, just in time to have students discuss their resolutions for 2017, as well as learn a little culture along the way.
I began by teaching my students about the 12 uvas tradition on New Year's Eve. I used Martina Bex’s version, found here. This led to a discussion as to why Spaniards eat 12 grapes, as opposed to another number. We followed up with some PQA about New Year’s Resolutions. Students then created glyphs about thier New Year’s Resolutions. I recently found a post by Sol Azucar about incorporating glyphs into the classroom, and decided to have my students create their own glyphs using grapes and general New Year’s Resolutions. (A glyph is simply recording information in pictorial form. There is a very simple example here.) After students created their glyphs, they exchanged them with one another so that Student A could interpret Student B’s glyph. Then, Student A created a flipgrid video to present the data interpretation of Student B’s glyph. By creating the glyphs, students were reviewing the simple present tense via a ton of comprehensible input, and by creating the flipgrid video, they are reinforcing the difference between first and third person. Here is the link to the glyph I used for New Year’s Resolutions. Enjoy!
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Tara Brown
12/27/2018 12:24:04 pm
Awesome - thank you! :-)
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