Greetings desde el mundo español!
![Students read their original Children's Books to their classmates](https://alzar.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-19.jpg)
In Alzar School’s Introductory Spanish class, students practice reading comprehension, listening comprehension, verbal and writing proficiency through engaging and challenging projects. Each week, students learn a new set of vocabulary and focus on a new set of grammatical topics. These topics are focused around both a weekly project and our current novel – “Piratas.” During our first unit (“La Identidad”- Identity) students created online dating profile videos to practice describing their personalities and physical appearance using adjectives. More recently in our second unit (“Nuestro Ambiente” – our environment), students created weather reports, gave brief presentations on Spanish-speaking countries, and wrote Children’s Books using simple present tense verbs and environmental vocabulary.
![Student practices her reading and verbal proficiency through reading her Spanish children's book to her classmates.](https://alzar.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo-21-e1381520832440.jpg)
They have also been practicing listening comprehension and verbal proficiency through reading and acting out chapters from our novel “Piratas.” Through these hands-on projects, I’ve seen students progressing in leaps and bounds, and they are excited to learn!
See below for a small sampling of student’s videos for our accelerated Introductory Spanish class:
http://youtu.be/JVF4Xg8kE20