Today, Sam and I watched a short video about learning a language with purpose(warm up activity) . In this video Bill Gates sits down with Washington State Teacher of the Year and 2018 National Teacher of the Year, Mandy Manning from Ferris High’s Newcomer Center in Spokane. Mandy teaches at Ferris High School’s Newcomer Center, which was created in 1997 specifically to help immigrant and refugee students make the transition to living in the U.S. I’ve been going to Spokane for years to visit relatives there, so I know a bit about the city, but I was surprised to learn about the diversity of the student population. Mandy told me 77 different languages are spoken in the district. It’s not unusual for her to have a class with 12 students who speak eight different languages. After watching this video we spoke about the importance of learning languages and helping others(Inspiration is a big part of creating new ideas intended to help every human being succeed). We worked in our textbook on the "verb tener" saying what you have. The"verb tener" is also used to talk about the age of a person. Sam wrote several examples using the verb tener. Also, she wrote about her family discussing the age of her mom, dad, fiance, grandparents, and uncle.