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¡Noticias del aula de español!-
News from the Spanish classroom!
¡Noticias del aula de español!-
News from the Spanish classroom!
Perú y Alaska
Perú y Alaska
Have you heard of chuño? It is a common practice done by indigenous peoples of the Andes for thousands of years. They are the home of potatoes so they know how to do it all with them! Our students watched a video on how families work together to preserve their potato harvest similarly to how Alaskan families come together to preserve their berry or salmon harvest. Ask your child to tell you about the process for making chuño, would like to try it one day when they are in Perú or Bolivia?
Our curious kids inspired a research project into Alaskan chuño!
Our curious kids inspired a research project into Alaskan chuño!
Why don't Alaskans make chuño they asked, I said I don't know, let's give it a try! Here are some pictures of our process so far. Letting the potatoes sit for freezing, coming into the class for squeezing and perhaps one more round of freezing to get more moisture out. They have learned the Spanish words for prediction (predicción) observation (observación) and inference (inferencía) noticing the spelling patterns that are similar but different. -tion for English and ción for Spanish. We are always making connections and comparisons between the two languages to strenghten our understanding of both!
Some note taking on our experiment
Some note taking on our experiment
Students held and squeezed and smelled as they explored our potatoes after they spent 6 nights out in the cold then thawed in the school for one day. They were brave and curious and shared freely about their ideas as well as listened intently to others!
A different class perspective
A different class perspective
Students embraced their inner scientists as they made inferences about the potatoes and the project based on what we observed with our senses. We will keep exploring this process as we learn together what it takes to make chuño in Alaska.
Empezamos aquí
Empezamos aquí
Students in K-1 begin Spanish class with a fun get to know you song called Manzanitas de Perú. I spent my summer in Perú with a Fulbirght-Hays Group Trip Abroad and learned so many things I can't wait to share with them.
Manzanitas.pdf
Diving into Vocabulary
Diving into Vocabulary
We will be starting to expand our classroom vocabulary with directions around moving from space to space and working with others. One skill we always need to learn is how to get quiet as a group and we will do this with the song I learned in Locuto, Perú. This slide show is the same tool that I am using with students to engage them in active observation of a Peruvian school and how to sing our new getting quiet song.
Studying our Shapes
Studying our Shapes
So far this year we are focusing on four shapes, three of which are cognates- words that look the same, sound the same and have the same meaning. El círculo, el triángulo, el rectángulo, and el cuadrado.
We are focused on asking who has and how many we have as we sort our shapes. This looks like:
¿Quién tiene un círculo? (who has a circle?)
-¡Yo tengo un círculo! (I have a circle)
-Ellen tiene un círculo. (Ellen has a circle)
That question can be asked about lots of things and the more students practice the more confident they will be in class. With confidence they can support peers with their participation also. Consider playing at home.
¿Cuántos triángulos tenemos? (how many triangles do we have?)
-Nosotros tenemos seis triángulos. (We have six triangles)
-Tenemos dos triángulos. (We have two triangles- you don't always need pronouns in Spanish)
-Yo tengo un triángulo. (I have one triangle)
Buenos días
Buenos días
Good morning! This is a song we sing in only Spanish but is based on this version from Jose-Luis Orozco. We begin singing about just feeling very well and then we branch out and add a variety of vocabulary as students share how they often feel at different parts of their day. It is a fun part of our day! Students will begin leading the song in the coming weeks, it really adds to the joy in class.
Golpeteo...
Golpeteo...
is a fun hand game and song we are learning this quarter to make connections to other cultures, practice hand eye coordination and have some fun! Review our slides to learn the words and the video of my family to help you see how to do play this game as a family at home.
¡Bien hecho! Look at us play!
¡Bien hecho! Look at us play!
Stanton Golpeteo Solo.MOVMs. Rylee's class practicing Golpeteo by themselves.
Stanton Golpeteo 3s.MOVMs. Rylee's class practicing Golpeteo in groups of 3!
Dente Golpeteo solo.MOVMrs. Dente's class practicing Golpeteo by themselves
Dente Golpeteo 3s.MOVMrs. Dente's class practicing Golpeteo in 3s!
Las Mañanitas
Las Mañanitas
We began learning the song Las Mañanitas a traditional song in Spanish that is song on birthdays, especially to serenade the person who is completing another year or es su cumpleaños. The words to this version are provided in this PDF booklet and our 1st graders began to learn the chorus this week.
Please practice at home. If you want help with the melody listen to this great recording by Jose-Luis Orozco on YouTube
For extra fun try this silly version that was made with the Minons also on YouTube. Please watch together as the video suggestions YouTube makes afterwards may not be appropriate.
Las Mañanitas-librito.pdfThis is a crowd favorite at school and I hope our shortened version here gets you singing all day long at home!
Los Elefantes.mov¡Los Elefantes!
¡Los Elefantes!
Un elefante se balanceaba
Sobre la tela de una araña
Como veia que resistia
Fue a llamar otro elefante
Dos elefantes se balanceaban
Sobre la tela de una araña
Como veían que resistia
Fueron a llamar otro elefante
Check out some cool past projects and learning experiences.
Check out some cool past projects and learning experiences.
Exploring Faces: expressing emotions
Exploring Faces: expressing emotions
We read Alexander y el día terrible, horrible, espantoso, horroroso. The class had a great time repeatingt he title with me whenever it came up in the book- and that was often! We used some emerging literacy tactics to understand more by looking at ¿quién? or who was in the story, ¿Qué hace? or what they do, and ¿Cómo está? or how they feel. The students were very thoughtful and we had great discussion about reading facial expressions.
Alexander se sintió feliz :-)
Alexander se sintió feliz :-)
Alexander se sintió enojado >:{
Alexander se sintió enojado >:{
Alexander se sintió triste ;-{
Alexander se sintió triste ;-{
Tortillas
Hecho de Mano
Tortillas
Hecho de Mano
Handmade tortillas! Wow our Kindergarteners did an amazing job working with our special guest learning how to flatten their dough into beautiful tortillas of all shapes and sizes. We also learned a delightful rhyme that we will continue to practice the rest of the quarter. ¡Muy bien hecho amigos!
Literacy Centers Were a Success!
Literacy Centers Were a Success!
Wow! Our first graders are really digging into their language learning. Thanks to our generous donors from our Donors Choose project we now have Spanish texts, audio recordings, a CD/Cassette player, headphones, and the ability to run meaningful literacy centers! Thanks to everyone who contributed!!
Listening, Reading, Learning Fun!
Listening, Reading, Learning Fun!
I am so proud of our first grade class for their focus and independent working during our 'tallers'. Students stayed on task, engaged with each part of our centers even when it was something completely new and many of them encouraged one another each step of the way. This was a wonderful success!
Practicamos
Practicamos
We practice
Leer
Leer
reading
Los números
Los números
numbers
Welcome back to Spanish class, we have had an awesome start to 2022. Students reviewed our deep breathing practice with 'la serpiente', we practiced listening to numbers and writing them out, we played our hand game Golpeteo and we even paired up foam numbers with written numbers sharpening our reading skills. I am so proud of their hard work!
Above are two ways to practice our hand game that we learned during 2nd quarter. The Google Slides are the words to the game including some graphics to support comprehension. The video is my family and I playing together last year. If you want to see the original video from Vuelta Canela, check out their work on YouTube with this link: Vuelta Canela Golpeteo
As we close the 1st quarter of this school year we completed our unit on colors, shapes and Who/Where question words. We also learned two games from the Spanish speaking world, both from Mexico actually. Lotería and Toma Todo. Lotería is similar to Bingo and Toma Toda is a dreidel or top spinning game with directions to Toma Todo- take it all, Toma Uno- take one, Todos Ponen- everyone puts in, Pon Uno- put in one, and the like. Students practice saying and doing the appropriate action with a class set of coins. They did great!
Cuentos para los oídos de español
Cuentos para los oídos de español
The Spanish Experiment has a wonderful collection of fables, the link above bring you to some favorite with little videos to watch and all the words of the story available to read and translate as you listen to the stories being read aloud.
There is more content available for members but there is also a decent amount of stories to watch, read, listen and revisit. Check out their page The Fable Cottage!
Música de Jose-Luis Orozco
Música de Jose-Luis Orozco
A great way to bring another language into your life is through music.
Jose-Luis Orozco has inspired much of my teaching and he has a huge depth to his musical works for young children.
At my home we listen to him constantly. His music can be found on both Pandora and Spotify so if you already use a streaming service just click the link and get listening.
Las Trabalenguas :)
Las Trabalenguas :)
Trabalenguas are tongue twisters that we will begin to learn as the year progresses to tune our ear to the pronunciation and fun of speaking Spanish. You can begin to practice these at home and get a head start. Have fun!
Erre Con Erre.MOVErre Con Erre
Erre Con Erre
Una trabalenguas nueva :)
El video está arriba y las letras están a la derecha
Erre con erre guitarra solo.pdfR with R
R with R
A new tongue twister :)
The words are above, the video to the left
El Chocolate
El Chocolate
uno, dos, tres, CHO
uno, dos, tres, CO
uno, dos, tres, LA
uno, dos, tres, TE
chocolate, chocolate
bate, bate, chocolate
Try the videos to the right for some fun practice!
Chocolate Sin Teo.MOVSin mi hijo (without my son)
Chocolate Con Teo.MOVCon mi hijo (with my son)
Listen and practice below :)
Listen and practice below :)
Compadre Compreme.MOV
Listen and practice below
Listen and practice below
Cuantos cuentos.MOVVamos a cantar juntos-
Let's sing together
Vamos a cantar juntos-
Let's sing together
Here are two of our favorite songs that we sing at school, we have not started these as of October 2021 but if you want to get started singing and enjoying having fun with animals please watch the videos and have fun learning more.
Juancho Pancho
Juancho Pancho
Juancho Pancho tiene un rancho
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
En ese rancho tiene una vaca
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
Con un muu aquí y un muu acá
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
Con un muu aquí y un muu acá
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
(Empiece otra vez al principio.
Start again from the beginning,
Usa otro animal esta vez- el nombre y sonido camiaré
Use another animal this time- the animal name and sound change :)
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