Miércoles 3o de octubre

Tomorrow is Halloween, a good opportunity to discover new words and to include them in sentences that could be used for that occasion.
First, we worked on the sight-words, and added 6 more, bringing the  list up to 37 words. The kids practice them, that's great news, and as we go, they'll see and know how to use them. Today's words are:
"perdon", "muy", "bien", "lo siento", "es" and "està".
Then they dressed up a little mannequin that will be used later on to learn body parts and clothes, so if you can make sure it doesn't get lost in the Halloween frenzy.
Everybody has a nice Halloween
"Truco o trato !!!"

Miércoles 25 de octubre

"En mi casa, yo veo una calabaza anaranjada" is the sentence your child could create today. We worked on making such short sentences, related to coming Halloween, and each student read them to the others who were delighted to understand. This basic sentence is one of the pillars of mastering Spanish as it stresses on the masculine/feminine concept of the language.
It also was very motivating to see that all the kids knew their sight words, so we added six more:
"hay", "qué tal?", "qué es?", "hoy", "ayer", "manana" (with a tilde on the 1st N that my keyboard doesn't have). Step by step, they are walking deeper into the Spanish world, help them practice with their new knowledge so that they keep on asking for more.
"Hasta luego!"

Miércoles 16 de octubre

The weather being generous with us this month, we spent the first minutes of our weekly class outside playing a fun game, under the cover of the tree shade. Interestingly enough, the game is based on a song (about a wolf in a forest - un lobo en el bosque) which is the Spanish version of a French song I knew when I was a kid myself! The children had much fun singing that song and listening to the wolf's part. Then we walked inside for more words to learn, this week: "yo", "mi", "por", "sin", "con", "para", "conmigo". I'm delighted to notice that the kids now know the words from previous lessons. Keep on practicing with them as more words will come. And then we put into practice the grammar point seen last week in order to bring more next time. And it was time to go. Hasta luego!

Miércoles 9 de octubre

The children knew their 12 words, that is a very good start, so we added 6 more words, this time, verbs, 1st-person form: Soy - Estoy - Veo - Oigo - Tengo - Quiero.

The next step was to refresh the masculine/feminine concept and to use all that together for sentences like: "Yo tengo una camisa rosada."

If everything works perfectly, next week, under the direction of Maestro Lobo, we'll be cooking.

An opportunity to learn a few words about that activity.

Hasta luego ! Don't forget to have your child read and/or say a few sentences in Spanish to you.

Miércoles o2 de octubre

Today we added six more words to our list of high-frequency words.
Again, the objective is to know them by heart and to do so, your child needs to write them down on flashcards as (s)he did for the previous ones.
Today's list is: ¡ hola ! / ¡ gracias ! / ¡ de nada ! / me llamo / ¡ hasta luego ! / ¡ por favor !

If you practice with your child, which I highly recommend, please note that "por favor" sounds like "por fabor".

Then we wrote more stories to learn about sentence building and also new basic words.

If you can have your child read or listen to some Spanish during the week, it will definitely be productive.

¡ Hasta luego !