Dual Language Thursday Update September 17, 2015

Thursday Update 9/17/15

DL Celebrations!
Noticias de la semana/ Week in News 
Video celebrates the last week in Dual Language 1.36 minutes

5K Imagine Learning

Each 5K DL Classroom will have 10 Imagine Learning Accounts for student use.   Imagine Learning is a tool that students can use as a supplement to universal instruction, and as such, your neediest students should access it as a supplement to regular instruction.

Please use this Document to write the names of the students you would like accounts for.  If after October 15, licenses remain or are unused, those licenses will be given to needy children throughout our program.

!!IMPORTANTE!!!!!!!NABE Writing Contest.  

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE EMAILED BY TEACHER AND BE IN WORD DOCUMENT!!

A suggestion would be to have students write them in word and save them to a drive.

Email the entries to awards.nabe@gmail.com, and in the subject you must write 2016 and the students First and Last Name (ex. 2016DarioGarcia)

Please also have students upload their writing to a google folder, and share the folder with me, as we will be using these writing samples for other purposes.

Spanish Library Media Resources SDW

Follow this link to the Resources in our Library Media Collection

NEW LEARNING (Walk throughs start this week)

DL 2015-2016 Walk Through Tool Tutorial (link to youtube) 

DL EC PD BUF Anchor Charts (Link to youtube)
DL ECs spent several hours learning about Phase 1 of the BUF, Building Concrete Background and Oracy

Essential Question: What is background knowledge?  How is it acquired?

• Strategies introduced and refined the concept that students cannot write what they cannot say, and that spoken language needs to enter permanent memory to become a resource for writing:
• Think, Sentence Frame, Pair, Share
• Speaking in Paragraphs
• Stronger Clearer Each time, with the borrowing table/presta uno
• Concept mapping
• Dialogic rehearsal
• Applications of the Thoughtful Log in Buf Units
• El Dictado and related word work (see Urow and Beeman pf 128 and 142)
• Bilingual Pairs (linked)

Important DL/ESL September Dates:
CLM/BUF Unit 1 September Week 1 thru October Week 1

September 24: Banting DL 5K Parent Dinner

September 30-DL ESL and BIL Spec Ed "Sign off" on Dual Language Handbook (Principals)

October 1st: NABE the Importance of Being Bilingual Writing DUE to NABE!!  see above!!!!!!

September DL Department Meetings by site:

• Heyer: September 24 7:45am
• Blair: September 22, 7:45 am
• Banting: September 29, 7:45
• Bethesda: September 23, 7:45
• Middle Schools: OTL-N/A