My name is Rosario
Merida Prieto. I am from Spain. I went to university in Madrid and Granada and
then started travelling around Europe. I have lived in England, France,
Switzerland and Belgium where I worked as a Spanish teacher in a high school
and in the Spanish consulate. Back in my country I continued teaching in
several institutions such as the Swedish School of Marbella and Marbella Study
Centre, to both children and adults. I arrived in Iowa City with my two dogs in
2011 as a graduate student at the UI where I have worked as a Spanish
instructor in combination with volunteering Spanish teaching at the Prairie
Green School. I graduated in May in the program of Spanish Creative Writing. Currently
I teach Spanish at COE College, Cedar Rapids. I am looking forward to teaching your children.
¡Hasta
pronto!
¡Hola a todos!
ReplyDeleteWe are in the second week of the semester already. We have started by learning -for those who had not learned that before- to ask and answer what our name is:
- ¿Cómo te llamas?
-Me llamo Rosario
and to greet in a couple of different forms:
-Hola (hello)
-Buenos días (good morning)
-Buenas tardes (good afternoon)
-Buenas noches (good night)
-Adiós (bye-bye)
-Nos vemos (see you)
-¿Cómo estás? (how are you?)
-Bien ¿y tú? (well, and you?)
I know that some of the kids already knew this from previous classes but others did not, so it was important to devote the first week to it. Anyway, since these are expressions that I say ABSOLUTELY EVERY DAY to them, I have no doubt that they will never forget them. My intention is to move on to other things immediately so the ones who have studied Spanish and started from the basic several times don't get bored soon, but for the new ones the repetition is important, so here's your homework: please, greet and make your child greet you in Spanish sometimes when you think of it.
Tomorrow we will talk about halloween a bit (of course) and play "Simon dice" with basic commands like siéntate (sit down), levántate (stand up), dame el lápiz (give me the pencil) and so on, so we set up the basis of a class communication in Spanish.
Gracias y hasta pronto.
Rosario.