Foreign

Language News Letter

Bienvenidos! Welcome! The 2011-12 school year Resource Spotlight promises to be an exciting one and I am excited to have Monthly Online Resources For Parents and Students the chance to work with your children to help them learn and grown in the Foreign Language classroom. As Foreign Language Site: tinyurl.com/libassifl Our very own class website! a part of my commitment to you as families this year, I will be releasing a monthly newsletter, to keep Foreign Language Twitter: twitter.com/OakcrestFL everyone informed of the goings on in our classroom Our class has Twitter, too! How cool are we? and in the school community at large. Word Reference: www.wordreference.com The best Language-Language dictionary site on the web Additionally, for those parents who are interested, I will also be sending the newsletter out via e-mail, so if youd Forvo: www.forvo.com like to be on the e-mail list, please be sure to fill in your Hear the proper pronunciation for any word in most languages. e-mail address on the Parent Contact Information Google Translate: translate.google.com Survey (you can find the link below.) Basic translations from any language to any language Fun World Fact: Dont Forget About the rale, el alfabeto: tinyurl.com/elalfabeto Parent Contact Info Practice the Spanish alphabet at home with this fun video. The Nation with the highest Survey! chicken to human ratio is This year in an effort to make parent contact more efficient and effective Bahrain. The gulf nation in my classroom, I am asking parents to fill out a short online survey to apparently has 40 chickens provide me with the most accurate contact info possible. Please take a for every person, much more than a chicken in minute to fill out the survey, and I look forward to speaking with you every pot. soon! Survey Site: tinyurl.com/libassisurvey Class theme: You may have noticed that many of your students papers from the foreign language classroom have a header that says Open Doors. This is our class theme for the year. Throughout the school year, our class will be learning how being excellent foreign language students (and, for that matter, an excellent student in any classroom) will open doors for them the rest of their lives. For more info, please see the class syllabus. And be sure to ask your students about the theme and what they think of it. I look forward to a great year together! School Happenings for August/September
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Welcome Back Edition

September 1st Back to School Night September 13th PTA Meeting and Technology Orientation night Come and get some tips and tricks from Mr. Libassi and Ms. Bonafacio on how to use school and class websites, as well as other school related technology resources. The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin