Day 125 - AP Spanish Class Visits Sprouts - Mrs. Dacey - BHS Foreign Language Chair

Last week, Mrs. Dacey’s AP Spanish class traveled to Burlington’s Sprouts preschool classroom to share their Spanish knowledge with the little ones.  The seniors taught the preschool students a Spanish lesson during an hour long session.  The lesson began with a welcome song in Spanish, followed by engaging craft making activities.  First, students made musical instruments, called rain sticks, which are believed to be from the Mexican aztec people.  Next, they learned how to say various body parts in Spanish, while playing a “pin the tail” like game with Señor Papa.  Finally, the students decorated and folded fans and watched a group of four AP students dance the well-known Spanish Flamenco dance.  Both the “big” and “little” Burlington students had a blast!

Day 47 - Ms. De Sousa & Mrs. Dacey Present “iPads and the Foreign Language Classroom” - BHS Staff

This post originally appeared on the BHS World Languages Blog

Last month, BHS Spanish teachers, Ms. De Sousa and Mrs. Dacey, presented a four-hour workshop on “iPads and the Foreign Language classroom” at the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association’s annual conference.  Last year, they won “Best of MaFLA” and were invited to lead a workshop this year that focused on applications used in language classes that enhance listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

Check out this blog post created by Kevin Murphy, an instructional technology teacher at Frontier Regional High School in  Massachusetts.  Kevin attended Ms. De Sousa and Mrs. Dacey’s “iPad and the Foreign Language Classroom” presentation at the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association’s conference in October 2013.  His blog post explains the various applications that he learned at the presentation and how he implements them in his classes.

Day 22 - AP Spanish Students Create Presentations With Movenote - Renee Dacey, BHS Foreign Language Department Head

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This week Mrs. Dacey's AP Spanish students used a new application called Movenote that was recommended by Ms. Scheffer, BHS's new Instructional Technology Specialist teacher.  The Movenote app allows you to add a video of yourself teaching a topic to photographs or slides.

A Screenshot of a Movenote Presentation

In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, students created a presentation about influential individuals from Hispanic roots that reside/resided in the United States.  Students explained how these Hispanic people have had a positive impact on US society.  

Click on the links below to Check out these examples of the AP Spanish students' work:

Movenote-Celia Cruz

Movenote-José Hernández

Movenote-Junot Díaz