Miercoles 21 de enero

I gathered the kids around an image to help them develop what we saw last week. This time, we were looking at a little town with many characters in it.
It was the opportunity to introduce some verbs in order to create sentences like:
Yo veo tres globos negros en la ciudad.

It might be time for you to help your child develop that base with some basic Spanish books that you can find in our Public Library downtown.

Miercoles 14 de enero

The objective of this part of the year is to have our students be able to build their own little sentences. The first step is the acquisition of vocabulary, and we used our classroom environment to start with. Then we tried to tell where things were around us.
So we ended the hour with sentences like:
La television esta entre el pizarron blanco y la ventana,
which will be our first block for longer sentences.

Miércoles 14 de diciembre

Right before Christmas break, we seized the opportunity to share ideas to write and make Christmas cards for the whole group.
Even though the sentences were basic, they helped review the patterns we already saw previously, that is masculine/feminine, singular/plural.

We'll continue the good work as soon as we meet again in January.
Happy new year - Feliz ano nuevo !

Miércoles 19 de noviembre

Having blended two levels together, we can use the knowledge of somes to stimulate the learning of others.

Today, it was around the ochard, with words like:

huerta, árbol, manzana.

The objective is to help our students to naturally build sentences like:

En la huerta, hay cuatro árboles.

That's already rich in new concepts !

Happy Thanksgiving !
Next class, first week of December

Miércoles 29 de octubre

We started a new year of Spanish with new things and new substances.
The goal is to acquire more vocabulary and confidence working from a theme and a text.
Today, it was about bears, with new words like:
ojos, orejas, cabeza, patas, fuerte, ...
Our students wrote it down, it will be a reading practice and also for this week, a translation exercise.

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 !