Señor Sachem: Parent Forum and Blog Post: April 2015

Señor Sachem: Parent Forum and Blog Post: April 2015

Spanish 3 CP / H

The students in Spanish 3 are moving forward in the curriculum. They are tackling challenging advanced material in their grammar studies, learning to speak and write with proficiency in the past tense. Their thematic vocabulary unit addresses health, fitness, and extra curricular activities!

Cultural Perspectives

The students in Cultural Perspectives are finishing their historical context portion of the class. In the past few weeks they have studied the evolution of man, man's earliest societies, and early Europe through the industrial revolution. We will look at 20th century Europe next week!

Señor Sachem: Parent Forum and Blog Post: March 2015

Señor Sachem: Parent Forum and Blog Post: March 2015

Spanish 3 CP / H

The students in Spanish 3 all performed wonderfully on their summative assessment to close out unit 1. They are now moving forward in the curriculum by learning about places in the community and how to talk about things they have done in the past. They are continuing to develop skills for reading critically, writing for a purpose in the target language and the English language, and speaking and listening in the target language! Our speaking and writing focus this unit is related to the thematic vocabulary unit on places around town, and using the past tense.

Cultural Perspectives

The students in Cultural Perspectives are continuing to complete one unit per week. Recently students looked at how the people of Scandinavia and the British Isles live today. This week students are learning about the peoples of Eastern Europe and a community of Romanians known as "Gypsies" who have dispersed throughout Europe. Next week begins their final unit which is on the Russia today!

Señor Sachem: Parent Forum and Blog Post: February 2015

Spanish 3 CP / H

The students in Spanish 3 are closing their unit of study on professions and home vocabulary. This unit will be assessed by the middle of the first week of March. The students will then extend their knowledge of target culture through the next segment of study of South American culture. In the upcoming unit students will extend their skills of communication in the present and past tense while learning thematic vocabulary related to places in a town or city and how to give and follow directions!

Cultural Perspectives

The students in Cultural Perspectives are completing a unit a week now. Each unit will focus on a specific land area. The past unit covered the peninsula's of southern Europe including Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In the coming month students will learn about the modern culture of central, northern, and eastern Europe. 

Señor Sachem: Parent Forum and Blog Post: January 2015

Welcome to the start of 2nd semester! My name is Sean Kinney and this semester I will be teaching your child in either Cultural Perspectives or Spanish 3 CP/H.  Every month I will update my blog to reflect the learning that is taking place in each class in the most recent unit. I also hope to share additional blog posts throughout the semester with information about some of our outstanding class experiences, national foreign language week, and honor society news!


Spanish 3 CP / H

The students in Spanish 3 are learning about jobs and professions as well as rooms, furniture, and chores in a house. They are developing a skill set to talk about these vocabulary units both in the present and past tense. Students in level three will be participating in a culture research project of a South American Spanish speaking country of their choosing.

Cultural Perspectives

The students in Cultural Perspectives are completing a unit that provides historical context for studying culture. Students will study the evolutionary timeline of our ancestors and determine when culture began, and what the implications of early culture were for the development of the first communities, cities, and early human empires.