A look around...

Here is where I post what we are doing every month. This month (April) it's Primavera (obvio), things like jardines, insectos, really just anything that has to do with Springtime! 

Spanish Wall... everything we are working on... numbers, colors, body parts, our favorite songs, and on the left side is where the Spanish Student of the month from every classroom gets to display their artwork! 

Los números I displayed them with elefantes because of the song by Grupo Encanto Un elefante se balanceaba  that we listen to, it counts to ten with elefantes walking on a telaraña, and my kids looove it! 

Hasta diez.

Along with our Garden theme... we spent the majority of March working on food (continue to through April) I know there is some dissidence on whether or not to use flashcards, but I am up to almost 50 food flashcards with the 2's 3's and 4's... they can name them all and probably 25 with the tods... they are able to recognize them in their toys... at the dinner table... (Parent:  "We were having chicken the other day and she kept saying pollo pollo.... " that was learned with a flashcard....Don't get me wrong it is great to mix things up because every child does learn differently, some like the idea of being able to hold something in their hand while we repeat the words... so I do use toys sometimes!!) Anywho... on the board parents can stop by to quiz their kiddos on what they are learning...most kids could name off everything in this picture...(the ones that can talk at least!) :)

La Oruga Muy Hambrienta... Classic story, it's great to choose books to read to the kids in Spanish that they are already familiar with. I look around the classroom see what their teachers have in the library, or ask which books they like and those are the ones I tend to pick up. Kids are already going to be familiar with the content so this will leave them open to just listen to the words and learn new vocabulary. On this portion of the Spanish wall I highlight a book every month... I think for our May theme the book will be "Vamos a cazar un Oso"  Going on a bear hunt, but don't quote me because I haven't decided! Por si acaso you want some ideas of what to do with the book! La oruga muy hambrienta- Project!

So, my bf's father who lives out in the country in WISCONSIN :) saved a birds nest for me because he thought my kids might like to see it... and boy did they love it. I showed them the nests and then we did a project of making our own!  Here they are making them... with the nest as inspiración.. 

Project: I got a make-a-bowl cut-out... had them color it brown, taped it up, cut up gazillions (approx.) of brown paper towels, shopping bags, and construction paper (think different textures for a nest) and we glued and filled it up! We also added Bird cut outs to put in our nests, ones that could fly or flap their wings... to rest in the nests and we colored eggs as well! Kudos to Joe for inspiring a GREAT Spring LESSON!

Another art project were flores, where I either traced and cut out their hands or they traced and cut them out themselves depending on ability level... wrapped 'em around a Popsicle stick added a leaf and had cute flowers!! 

Speaking of Arco Irises (Rainbows) the cutest book ever... GREAT for teaching colors... is  ¿De qué está hecho el arco iris? My kids looooove the way the ribbons slide through and at the end the rainbow pops up... we get to work on color vocab as well as animals! It's legit.