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Non profit association providing after school language education for children

Miercoles 28 de mayo

This afternoon, the whole group was present so we reviewed the family terms and played all together that card game to practice asking and replying about building families.
It was a nice review and fun to say things in Spanish and to understand without translating.
The time past by fast. Next week is our little celebration gig, around 2:15, we'll have all the classes together to celebrate our year of learning.
See you next week for the last one !

Miercoles 21 de mayo

In order to use our acquired knowledge, we reviewed some vocabulary about the family, the different members, and different occupations, in order to be able to play that family card game.
Our students did so, in Spanish, asking their partners, for example: "Quiero la madre de la familia de los mecanicos" and building up families as they played.
It was fun and also encouraging to notice how easier it is now to say something in Spanish.
We'll do it again a next time, as more practice is the key.
Hasta la semana proxima !

Miercoles 14 de mayo

With a heat wave in town, we practiced numbers and counting. To do so, using dice, we learned a new game with chips and went outside under tree shade to test our skills.
It was fun to play, it was fun to count and put numbers together.
Time went by very fast and soon the class was over.
I'll see you next week !

Miercoles o7 de mayo

Today we started our exploration of the bank and the money, creating our own 'billetes' printed by our own 'banco'.
The objective now is to use the concept to sell and buy things between students using Spanish.
We'll continue next week with more 'vender' y more 'comprar'.

Have a nice week !

Miercoles 3o de abril

I brought the students little pictures full of new vocabulary.
The objective of this lesson was to use location words: cerca de, en, bajo, ... in sentences to describe a situation and to be able to create longer sentences.
These pictures also being part of a word recognition game, we then played it to see what we knew so far and how much fun we can now get from our knowledge.

Miercoles 23 de abril

Official Earth Day being yesterday, we created a list of words related to the subject. Right after, we made another booklet illustrated with drawings and sentences created by the students.
It appeared that it seems easier to them to put words together to create sentences. You could thus help your child by having him/her read again in order to practice and remember.
Feliz Dia de la Tierra !

Miercoles 16 de abril

Easter being around, we shared a list of words, used them in sentences, and created a booklet including all these elements.
Your child worked on making up his/her own sentences, mainly using a pattern like:
"For Easter, I ...", that is "Para Pascua, yo...", helping them to feel more confident with their knowledge.
Next week, it will be about Earth Day.