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Verb conjugation review

With my advanced 8th grade students, we are reviewing the verb "ser". I did not want to give them a bunch of worksheet.  I've been seeing tons ofs ideas on Pinterest about the younger grades using clothespins to identify and label different items ( I unfortunately don't have the original post).  I've had this idea for a while, but I just wanted to figure out how to incorporate it.   I came up with this idea:   1.) They'll be taking the clothespins and placing the Spanish onto the correct English conjugations. Quick and easy review.         2.) They'll be placing the same clothespins into sentences used from our ¡Exprésate! level 1B cuaderno de vocabulario.     In order for me to keep track of the activity, and so they're writing, I created a quick worksheet with directions and a spot to label [not quite sure if this is the best way yet, but we'll see-ideas are always appreciated :)]:         It was really simple

Pinterest & blogs, oh my!

Well as I'm sure you already know, Pinterest has the BEST ideas for teaching. Not only Spanish, but also general classroom information. This past summer when I was in Spain working on my Master's, I found myself discovering that not only can Pinterest help me with figuring out how to get a stain out, but also it can lead me to GREAT blogs! I'm getting very excited and pumped for this year! (Well I think Spain had a lot to do with this also). Idea #1-Blogs I have discovered so many amazing Spanish teaching blogs! Here's some of my favorites: The Creative Language Class  [Amazing use of proficiency based assessment] Foreign Language Begins with a T  [Technology based blog] I hablo espanglish  [Great lessons for middle school] I love finding great resources! I'm going to try to implement some ideas, so I'll let you know how well they work.  Idea #2-Crafts As I said, Pinterest has some amazing ideas, so here's some of them, and some I've ad