After learning how to express weather conditions using the Spanish language, Stewart School second graders created windsocks to hang in their classrooms. This spring has been a busy one for the Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) students at the Stewart School as the students expanded their Spanish fluency through a variety of lessons and projects. For example, in Señora Gutierrez's third grade class, students learned about the parts of the body in Spanish. They practiced vocabulary through songs like Me Duele la Cabeza (I have a headache) and Tengo Comezón (Mexican song, I have an itch) and played Simon Sez. Finally, the students drew monsters and recorded a voice thread, a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos, located on the school's website which they can listen to over and over again.

In the second grade FLES class, the students learned the days of the week in Spanish through songs and games. As a culminating activity, Señora Gutierrez read the book Mañana, Iguana by Ann Whitford Paul, a story about Iguana and her three friends who plan "una fiesta" for the coming of spring. Each day before the party, Iguana tries to get her friends, Conejo (Rabbit), Tortuga (Turtle) and Culebra (Snake), to help her with the fiesta, but they are full of excuses, so she completes all of the preparations herself. The students in Mrs. Becconsall's class enjoyed the story so much they performed it as a play. They practiced their Spanish vocabulary and assumed the role of their characters. Look out Broadway, here come the Becconsall's!

Through song and pantomime, Stewart School FLES students learned about the parts of the body in Spanish. Time was of the essence as the Stewart School FLES students learned how to express time in Spanish, furthering their Spanish language fluency. As a culminating activity after learning about the weather and the seasons through songs, games, and illustrations, Señora Gutierrez's second graders at the Stewart School wrote sentences and drew weather scenes on windsocks which they displayed in their classrooms.

FLES students in Mrs. Christine Becconsall's class acted out the book Mañana, Iguana by Ann Whitford Paul in their Stewart School classroom.

Using clock faces, FLES students learned to interpret time in Spanish.