Month
1st
Grade
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
What are the
various ways in
which one can
greet and depart
Role play the act of greeting and
another
later leaving your classmate.
individual?
Participate in Total Physical
How would one
Response (TPR) activities using
greet God and
the body parts.
how would it be
Utilize the various greetings
different from
according to the time of day.
greeting your
Greetings/salutat Written word recognition and
September classmate?
ions
verbal skills.
October
What occupation
interests you the
most? Why?
Occupations
Identify the careers according to
pictures or diagrams.
Classify careers according to
likes/dislikes in Spanish.
Students will take a class survey
to figure out which career is
most sought after at the present
time.
Students will create a
depiction of a specific
profession and present to the
class.
Text/Resources
Assessment
Role play presentation of
greetings/salutations (without
Photocopies of terms referring guidance or notes)
to greetings and salutations/
Create a card to Holy Mary
Internet/ Flash card printouts of with a written greeting and
greetings and salutations/
salutation.Identify the various
Chalkboard/ Rockalingua
ways of introduction via game
Spanish Learning Program
using flash cards.
Professions handout
vocabulary list (cut and paste)
Flashcards of occupations
Clothing (as props)
Correctly pronounce the
Spanish terms./ Denote the
careers of parents in Spanish.
Which means
of transportation
is your favorite
and how often is
it used by your
parents?
What kind of
transportation do
you think God
would use to
travel around the Travel and
November world?
Transportation
Flash cards (Travel/
transportation vocabulary)
Identify the many means of
Overhead views of
transportation. / Recall the
transportation
various means of transportation Handout sheets with focus on
and travel vocabulary./Label the travel vocabulary
transportation according to the Toys (of different
corresponding pictures.
transportation)
Q and A sessions /
Correctly match the
transportation according to
pics.
Who are the
various members
of your family and
what are their
December ages ?
Family
Denote each family member
according to ditto and fill-in-theblanks section.
Describe each family member
using adjectives.
Recall and utilize the family
terms in Spanish.
Recite the Lord's Prayer in
Spanish
Completion of the
family(immediate) and that of
Jesus. / Able to recite the
family vocabulary an recall via
game
January
How would God
describe your
community ?
Community and
Neighborhood
Buscapalabras (family
members)
Flash cards (family members)
Construction paper
Photocopies of
Recite the vocabulary terms for community/neighborhood
various parts of the community. vocabulary
Recall the vocabulary regarding Flash cards of vocabulary
the community via review and
referring to the community
games.
/neighborhood
Word recognition referring to
the parts of the
community/neighborhood /
Participate in vocabulary
review games. / Correctly
respond to questions referring
to the community
February
March
April
May
Classify the various sections of
the house using vocabulary.
Recite the parts of the home.
Correctly fill in a ditto with pic of
house and word bank (for parts
of house in Spanish)
Various illustrated vocabulary
books /
Magazines with focus on
housing /
Flash cards of vocabulary /
OnLingo CDs (parts of the
house vocabulary)
Draw a house and correctly
label the rooms. /
Recitation of vocabulary
terms. / Respond to simple
questions using simple
answers in Spanish
What are healthy
foods to eat?
What foods are
unhealthy to
consume?
Food
Pronounce the various foods in
Spanish.
Classify the foods
according to good/bad for your
health.
Chart and classify the healthy
from the unhealthy foods in
Spanish.
Explain which foods you
like/dislike.
Onlingo CDs referring to food.
/
Food products and props (for
presentation and introduction
to vocabulary)
/
Food magazines (for pictures)
Creation of your own
restaurant menu
/
Presentation of the menu to
the class
/ Selecting healthy versus
unhealthy foods according to
commands and vocabulary
What are the
various types of
weather you
might
experience?
Recognize and identify the
many forms of weather one
might encounter in Buffalo.
Draw the various types of
weather. /
Respond to
questions pertaining to weather
in Spanish.
Onlingo CDs with a focus on
weather terms
Buscapalabras (Weather word
search)
Video
Pictures of weather types
Participation with game about
the weather
/
Able to distinguish between
the various types of weather
according to the Spanish
terms
Describe the classroom
according to vocabulary terms.
Prepare a daily schedule for a
classroom created by you and
your partner.
Write a list of the various
classes you take in your school
and denote which ones are
easy and which are difficult.
Classroom vocabulary games
(participation of)
Describe one of your
classrooms in Spanish.
Onlingo CDs with the theme of Respond to questions
the classroom
directed at whether or not you
Flash cards (classroom)
like/dislike a particular class
Television set (w/ video
and stating if it is easy or
capability)
hard.
How would you
describe God's
house room by
room?
Home
Weather
How would you
compare the
classroom of this
school year with
the one you had Classroom and
last year?
education
June
What are some
useful
expressions one
can utilize when
having a
conversation with
someone who is
a native Spanishspeaking
Useful
individual?
expressions
Match the terms with the
Spanish in reference to useful
expressions.
Repeat various terms of
importance when
communicating with a native
speaker of Spanish.
Photocopies of useful
expressions
Text
Photocopies of necessary
terms and expressions in
Spanish
Matching useful expressions
in Spanish with the English
counterparts
Role play
using a dialogue with a focus
on useful expressions
Verbal group sessions using
the useful expressions (when
and when not to use them)