Spanish
St. Charles School offers introductory instruction in Spanish in all grades. This program is designed to prepare our students for the study of foreign languages, with a special emphasis on Spanish. Currently, most St. Charles graduates are ready for entrance into Spanish 2.
Spanish Program
- Simple Commands and Instructions Given in Spanish
- Explore Language and Culture
- Hands-On Activities, Skits, Games, Stories, and Music
- Topics: Colors and Shapes, Numbers, Body Parts, Family Members, Animals, Emotions, Clothes, Household Furniture, Food, Calendar, Classroom Objects, Opposites
- Simple Commands and Instructions Given in Spanish
- Individual and Group Work on Mini-Projects Using Spanish Vocabulary
- Hands-On Activities, Skits, and Games
- Research Hispanic Saints and Famous Hispanic People
- Topics include: Boys’ and Girls’ Names, Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, Cognates, Clothes, Personal Information, Likes and Dislikes, Telling Time, Rooms in a Home, Home Furniture, Home Appliances, Food, Reading a Menu, School Subjects, Clubs, Classroom Objects, School Supplies, Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Weather, Seasons, Holidays, etc.
- Conversational Topics in the Spanish-Speaking World, including:
- Greetings, Farewells, Expressing Courtesies and Asking Questions Politely
- Telling Personal Information
- Finding the Prize and Monetary Systems
- Ordering Food and Buying Clothes
- Sizes and Colors
- Describe People and Nationalities
- Describe Your House
- Tell What You Study, School Activities
- Travel-Related and Leisure Activities
- Minor Illnesses and Emotions
- Culture
- Paternal and Maternal Last Names
- Formal and Informal Speaking
- Catholic Celebrations
- Quinceañera
- Spanish Painters
- Metric System
- Geography
- Military Clock
- Leisure, including Sports and Music
- Prayers in the Hispanic World
- Current Events
- Word Structure
- Present Tense
- Past Tense
- Conjugations of Regular AR, ER, IR Verbs
- Conjugations of SER, ESTAR, and TENER Verbs
- Stem-Changing Verbs
- Indefinite and Definite Articles
- Singular and Plural Forms of Adjectives and Nouns
- Possessive Adjectives
- Pronouns
