• First-Grade Spanish Learning Objectives

    Self

    Students will learn:

    • to greet each other and their teacher in Spanish.
    • to use their own Spanish name and the Spanish names of their classmates.
    • to express how they are feeling on any given day using a variety of vocabulary.
    • the major parts of the body in Spanish.
    • to identify members of a family and a few pet animals in Spanish.
    • to say his or her own birthday in Spanish.


    My Surroundings

    Students will learn:

    • to recognize colors in Spanish and be able to indicate the correct color when he or she hears it.
    • how to talk about general size in Spanish.


    The Larger Community

    Students will learn:

    • to count to 10 in Spanish with ease, and will learn numbers in Spanish 0-31.
    • about and be familiar with countries in which Spanish is spoken.
    • to recognize the names of Spanish-speaking countries.
    • about the important elements of the Day of the Dead celebration in México.
    • to say the days of the week and the months of the year in Spanish, in order to construct the date.
    • the names of fruits and how to describe them.
    • the names of common zoo animals and learn to describe them.