But I like to establish a routine with some additional activities. I'm only doing Spanish 1 this year, but these activities worked for other levels because you can always use more language when reacting or describing whatever it may be. And these are great to get into class mode.
Often times I pick something because it relates (well or loosely) to some words we have been going over or I simply find it hilarious and need to share it but find a way to get the high frequency words in there.
Here is what I ended up on. Since we only meet every other day (due to block scheduling), I really will only do this 10 or so times each. The thing I enjoy is I can often do some different passes of old words and/or add some enrichment vocab (for those quick kids who want more vocab) and sometimes (if appropriate) I can do some pop-up grammar.
Every day:
- Daily report (today is) - on board
- How is everyone? - Talk in Spanish about them for 5 minutes, ask follow up questions as appropriate
- Weather report (clip off weather from espanol.weather.com) TEMPLATE
Then I also will do an additional warm up activity.
