¡Hola!  ¡Bienvenidos a Español!  My name is Señora Sylvia Maenner and this will be my 10th year of teaching Spanish at St. Vincent de Paul!  I teach Spanish to 2nd graders - 8th graders!  The elementary students will be learning a lot of vocabulary so that when they get into 7th - 8th grades, they will learn how to incorporate that vocabulary into sentences and conversations. 

7th grade students will learn to conjugate (change the verb form so that sentences make sense grammatically) at the end of the school year, and 8th grade students are taught "Ser" and "Estar" (two verbs both meaning "to be") which is very important before entering into High School Spanish!  In 8th grade, students are also exposed to Spanish Literature with the Don Quijote - Man of La Mancha (1605, from Spain) which is the most important work of literature in the Latin culture!

Throughout the school year, all grades (2nd-8th) learn the Padre Nuestro (The Lord's Prayer) and the sign of the cross in Spanish, and each grade will also experience a variety of cultural observations, stories, and celebrations which includes games, activities and tasting a variety of foods from different Spanish speaking countries!  To see the list of cultural activities, click on the link below for important dates to remember.  

When a student is absent from Spanish class, it is his/her responsibility to see me promptly after they return to school for any notes missed in class and other assignments (which are usually worksheets thus cannot be put online).  The Daily Work questions will be posted on my web page after we do them in class, so if you are absent you can find those questions online.  It is my intention that PowerGrade be utilized by the students to "keep up" with their grades, assignments, and missing work.  I do write "notes" in PowerGrade when necessary on certain assignments.  Study Buddies are great, but unfortunately they are not always 100%, so please check PowerGrade often and/or check with me for any missing assignments or other concerns.

I'm looking forward to another great year!!!!

Spanish assignments

Mrs. Maenner's Important Spanish Dates

Spanish - 6th Grade Daily Work

Spanish - 7th Grade Daily Work 

Spanish - 8th Grade Daily Work