Data collected from English Diaries and Letter to a Friend Activities during the 2014/15 school year.
"I'm learning more skills that everyone needs to be able to survive in a Spanish speaking country."
"We all worked together by playing a game in fluent Spanish."
"It's one of the hardest classes at PMHS."
"It's surprisingly easy."
"I used the Spanish language in a competent way."
"I learned these (words) by hearing them then using it in a sentence to help me understand."
"When I don't understand a new word I ask other students for help."
"We had fun and we learned a lot of new vocab words. Learning Spanish through games and different fun activities is very good and productive."
"Outside of classroom I use Spanish words while talking to my friends and on social media."
"I really enjoyed doing it because everyone participated."
"I received a wrong number text from a Spanish speaking person and I could communicate with them."
"I can speak in complete sentences, understand Mr. B. much more, and know a lot more words."
"I'm really happy with OWL (Organic World Language) because I want to travel a lot, and this is like going into a Spanish speaking country."
"One success I've had in Spanish is being able to write in Spanish. I feel that writing is much easier."
"I heard Sr. B say 'Yo lo quiero' in the piñata song, and I asked him about it. It's like saying 'I want it' but with different structure. We went over examples where 'lo' and 'la' are used, which helped a lot.
"I liked the hand animals activity, it was entertaining and light hearted."
"I like singing, so it was fun!"
"My mom is learning Spanish, so if there's a word she doesn't know or a word I don't know, we help each other out."
"We learn about whatever we want to learn about!"
"I like to learn a whole new language and it is good to have a balance between new words and words we already know."
"I was able to speak a little bit more fluently."
"I have been showing my mom what I have learned and saying greetings and communicating with her."
"This class has taught me to say short phases in Spanish and make a list of Spanish words."
"I learned lots of new words, including many songs."
"At first I was really confused at what 'tiburón' meant, but then I realized what was being said through the hand motions."
"I overcame the confusion of Spanish by watching my teacher's hand movements and expressions; I also watched my class mates so I could understand the topic."
"We learn about whatever we want to learn about!"
When we were talking about when you used to live in Mexico and past tense words came up, I tried to use other similar wordsand "en el pasado" to try to understand.
When we were learning cuarto de Tula, I had to come up with stories and phrases about the words to understand.
Once I understood cuarto de Tula I felt pretty good because it was a difficult song to learn and understand.
I learned Tenedores, girraffa, my birthday, and roses throughout this week which was pretty fun especially trying to make the roses with a napkin, that was really neat.
Lucas helped me because I didn't know how to play.
I like to play jokes on my little sister because she doesn't know any Spanish.
I grew as a Spanish speaker because I learned more words.
I also greet my parents in Spanish, and I constantly will repeat a word I learned.
Last week was entertaining it was fun to learn new words and to talk about astronomy.
I learned to speak more clearlyand learned more words.
We learned 'Rana Detectiva' andI enjoyed a break from the intense learning.
I talked to my Ecuadorian great grandmother who knows Spanish over the phoneand told her all the words I learned, because she has always wanted me to learn the language.
Spanish class was confusing in the beginning of the week then got easier as we talked more.
I must admit that some days, I do not feel like learning more Spanish, but I will do my very best in and out of class to improve my Spanish proficiency so as to become a better student and be able to teach others who need teaching.
I have been able to understand most things that we have been talking about, although some things take a while for me to figure out.
Recently in Spanish class we have been discussing what goes on in other classes and what projects we are doing in those classes.In the class we have been showing other students our English projects as they progress.
I should work on not translating the Spanish to English for other classmates.That would help them.
I personally learn more Spanish when we play games during class. It is a fun way to get a lot of work done in a short amount of time... ...I feel like I do a good job during activities and I try to he
lp keep people under control.
This class is fun and enjoyable and I like this class a lot.
Overall, I could do better in this class simply by speaking in Spanish.
I did a good job explaining things to people in class.