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Free Workshops!
Día de Muertos: Art Making Community

(October 23-28)

Come learn about
Dia de Muertos while you make traditional paper flowers, papel picado (traditional cut paper), and rubber block prints. All supplies are included but there is a limited number of blocks for printmaking so come early to get yours. Workshops are taught by Mexican artist, Indra Arriaga Delgado.

Parent/Caregiver Survey
2023-2024 

Please click on the Inlet View Logo to access the survey. I appreciate you taking time to review and complete this survey about your young learner. The feedback you provide will help me better support each of my students. Thank you in advance for your valuable insight!

Welcome and Thank You for Your Support!

Welcome to The World Language Program at Inlet View

Spanish classes are held weekly (link to full schedule)

Office Hours, via Zoom, or in person, please contact to schedule visit
Monday Noon-12:30   and   Tuesday  3:30-4:00
Please email with any questions, suggestions or concerns at any time.
I do my best to reply within 24 hours. 

This site is divided into pages that have material specific for grade levels and one that has recetas, or recipes for you to try out.

Comprehensible Input

In 2022 I began integrating a new strategy into my teaching called Comprehensible Input, abbreviated as CI. The video here shares some basic overview of what this concept looks like across all curriculum. In a Spanish classroom the goal is to use repeated content, translations, images, and lots of gesturing! Using this technique does require students to be listening with their whole bodies, watching my body language, my visuals, as well as the language I am producing verbally. The input I create with CI allows language acquisition to occur as we collaborate in communication. 

Proficiency Progress

Proficiency is not perfection.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language, ACTFL, proficiency guidelines and can-do statements help drive my curriculum development. Making progress in our proficiency via the four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing is my year long goal for all students. This slide show reviews examples of can-do statements for students emerging proficiency and shows them samples of growth. 

Want to donate to the class? 

We have had projects successfully funded through Donors Choose in the past but for the 2023-2024 school year the best way to donate to the class is with your time. Many activities are enriched by others help, don't worry if you are still an emerging Spanish speaker- you will do great! Also if you have connections to Spanish speakers in the community please feel free to send them my email (bundtzen_meghan@asdk12.org) so we can collaborate! Cooking projects are back this year and collaboration is the key. These projects are always more fun with community. Two classes are scheduled for a salsa project on Wednesday October. 18th: Dente and Stanton. Three classes are scheduled for a salsa project on Thursday October. 19th: Park, Caldwell & Campbell. Can you help both or either of those days? If you would like to volunteer please complete the ASD volunteer application and waiver.

Calma

Nuestro Rincón De Paz 

This image is of our peace corner, or rincón de paz. We are very lucky to have the support of the wider community who have donated the features of this space. 

Do you have images you use at home to practice calm or la calma? Do you have deep breathing techniques that you practice that we could utilize here? The photo album in the image above is only partially full of images that remind students of the calming techniques we have learned together in Spanish class. I would love to add more from your home too! 

This has enriched our learning tremendously! Thank you!!

Wow the carpet is beautiful and is sparking much curiosity!

Learn a bit more about Señora...

This July I went to Texas for IB training, it was excellent!

Multilingual IB Educator Fun

Teachers are often a special breed of people who truly love learning. We warmed up with connections between our language studies and the PYP Learning Profile Attributes

IB Teachers Unite

These joyful people came from New York, Chicago, Texas and yes there was me from Alaska! If we are lucky you might get to meet some of these dedicated educators next summer. They loved all my moose and snow stories. 

We are all communicators

Tying IB cycle of inquiry, key concepts and other language into a world language class felt daunting for many but when working on this together the way through was clear. 

Un poquito sobre los verano pasados -
A little about my summers past

This is me walking home from a surprise birthday party for a dear friend who turned 70 this year! It's also a close look at my new hair cut, so short right?

My family and I went on several joyful backpacking trips this summer. The boys are getting stronger and gaining more confidence each trip, it is such a cool thing to do together! We went to Red Shirt Lake & to Crescent Lake this year, what about you?

This is a group of teachers from the US and from Costa Rica during a week long immersion workshop I participated in this summer. It was fabulous! 

Our oldest son also learned to kayak on his own this summer which was a huge accomplishment not just with the skills but the trust in himself to be in a boat alone. My husband and I got more comfortable with canoes this summer too! 

I am looking forward to making new Spanish memories together this year!