Bienvenida

Bienvenida ** What is the bienvenida? ** A bienvenida is a series of questions students have written on 3 x 5 cards and have the answers on the back. It is a way for them to communicate in the target language with base questions. I also have it set up on Power Point to run in class every once in a while. Students are to partner up, shuffle the 3 x 5 cards. One student reads the questions from the cards out loud and the other responds. Time is kept on how long it takes to respond to the questions.

.    **Record keeping** In order to have some accountability for the student several options were tried. **Option 1** was to use a shared Google sheets Students were able to see their times over 7 class periods. Since it was a shared document, students would erase other's times, write things, some were inappropriate. I was unable to find the Google sheets bienvenida document in My drive. **Option 2** was to have them use a Word doc and convert it to a Google doc. and record their information for five different class periods. The document was set up in a table. With this format, I also had them do the bienvenida as homework. The format worked but having them do the assignment as homework was a disaster, many do not do homework. Grades dropped dramatically.

**Option 3** I tried to have them do homework in another way by having them write the answers in Spanish to the questions and also translate the questions. **Option 4** was just created within the last two weeks and goes back to the spreadsheet. It is done in Excel and the students will download and convert the document to a Google sheet so that it is their own document. They can also see their improvement over the year.