¡Bienvenidos! During la clase de Español, it was Jayden’s turn to choose our destination
to a Spanish speaking country. After singing our morning greeting song, ¡Buenos día amigos!, Jayden suggested we
head to Mexico. Upon our arrival to this country where
Spanish is an official language, we gathered in a círculo and began our Spanish language experience.
To
reinforce our learning of the Spanish vocabulary for some forms of
transportation, we read Nuestro Autobús
(The Bus for Us) by Suzanne Bloom. Through simple text and animated
illustrations, the story introduced us to a variety of vehicles as Tess, a
character in the story, waited at the bus stop for the school bus, el autobús.
Vocabulary
introduced:
¿Es
éste nuestro autobus, Gus? – Is this the bus for us, Gus
grúa
–
tow truck
camión
de bomberos – fire truck
camión
de helados – ice cream truck
camión
de basura – garbage truck
excavadora
– backhoe
autobús
-
bus
To further
reinforce our learning and boost our visual memory skill we played a game using
transportation counter pieces. Three forms of transportation were used; un tren,
un carro, y un avión. Then, while covered with a cloth one of the pieces
would be removed and los Cardenales
had to guess which piece was missing. Once they figured it out, they had to
identify which piece it was by using its Spanish word. What a wonderful time we
had playing this game! Los Cardenales
were so amazing that it wasn’t long before I needed to add more pieces into the
game to make it more challenging. Go ahead. Try it at home! Ask them the Spanish word for some modes of
transportation, you too will be impressed!
Vocabulary introduced:
¡Cierra los ojos! –
Close your eyes!
¿Cuál falta? –
Which is missing?
¿Qué es esto? –
What is this?
Inténtelo de nuevo –
Try again
¡Muy bien! – Very good!
We finished our
class with our traditional song, Adios,
hasta luego, and Jayden squeezing la vaca. ¡Gracias, Jayden!
¡Hasta nuestro proximo viaje! (Until our
next voyage!)
Paz,
Alicia
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