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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Español con las Lechuzas y los Búhos: rojo, verde y azul

¡Bienvenidos familia, amigas, y amigos! We began our clase de Español with our traditional morning greeting. The greeting included a song in Spanish followed by each of us taking a turn to say Buenos dia along with a handshake. Afterwards, it was Harper’s turn to tell us what country we were flying to where Spanish is the spoken language. As she looked at the map that states all the Spanish speaking countries, Harper pointed to Paraguay. We then spread nuestras alas (our wings) and pretended to volar (fly) to this country en avión (on plane). Upon our return, we settled into this Spanish speaking country and gathered in a círculo.


 

One way to incorporate language practice is through games as they keep the children entertained, interested, and on task. To help Las Lechuza y Los Búhos to contextualize the vocabulary for four of the basic colors, we played an enjoyable game of the “Swatter Game.” First, using cards depicting colors we reviewed the following colores:   

red – rojo
green – verde
blue – azul
yellow - amarillo
 
 
Then, we placed the cards down on the ground and the Spanish word for one of the colors is called out. Our job? Well, to “swat” the correct picture that matches the word of course. Two friends played at a time then we were asked to pasalo (pass it) to the person next to us. What fun! What an amazing job Las Lechuza y Los Búhos did.  Go ahead, try it a home.











 

We finished our clase de Español with our traditional song, Adios, hasta luego, and Harper squeezing la vaca. ¡Gracias, Harper!





 

¡Hasta nuestro proximo viaje! (Until our next flight.)

 

Paz,

Alicia

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