Student Showcase--Spanish I Contribution

The Friday before the showcase my Spanish I students had an open-note quiz with two options: 1) write sentences that used places and modes of transportation or 2) illustrate a town and label the places and modes of transportation.  Most kids needed to take their work home over the weekend but a few finished in class.

As I looked at the completed projects and thought about my Spanish II Inca project that was to be displayed at the showcase, I found myself leaning towards scrapping the Incas and putting the town drawings up instead.  That's the advantage to being the one writing the program I guess :)  Spanish II was already represented by the Miró drawings (next blog to come) and the Inca drawings just weren't as much fun as these towns.

So on Monday when the kids came in, they were given a few minutes and gluesticks.  The drawings went onto construction paper and then taped up outside my classroom.  Overall they looked pretty good although I think a few kids might work harder on a take home assignment next time; I could see the surprise on their faces when they heard their work was going to be displayed.  I only had them put their Spanish first names visible on the drawings, so there was still anonymity for those who were not as excited about the display.

 one of the walls, we actually curved around on four small walls near my room

a close up of two