Hola padres! We have had another wonderful week in Spanish! For second and third grade, I had them work on a Day of the Dead word search that contained both English and Spanish words having to do with the holiday. They always enjoy this and it is a fun way for them to understand some of the vocabulary. We also used the week to review and catch up on the tropical rainforest vocabulary in our cuadernos or notebooks. I was so happy to see how much of the words they remembered and was glad to give them this week to catch up on writing any of the vocabulary that they may have missed the first time around. This enables us to jump right back in next week with our tropical forest lessons and add to our vocabulary lists.
We continued this week with our Spanish speaking country lessons with second grade learning about Guatemala and third grade learning about Ecuador.
For Kinder and first this week, I was excited to introduce them to our lesson on the Day of the Dead and its meaning and significance in the Hispanic culture. For this lesson, we made colorful Day of the Dead masks that should have come home yesterday and also today. The scholars really enjoyed using bright, beautiful colors and we worked some on our fine motor skills with cutting the eyes out. This can be a difficult task for them, but I am so glad to see them all tackle it with gusto and give it their best effort! They did such a great job. We also got a few minutes to review the Spanish alphabet and we played a short game of memory with the picture cards to review. Next week we will start with our first Spanish phonogram of "ch" which can be considered a letter and we will talk about how this is different from our own English alphabet. We will also start our lessons on the body parts and learn the song "head, shoulders, knees and toes" in Spanish, which is always a hit with this age group. Thank you so much for your time and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Sra. Hamilton
ahamilton@archwaytrivium.org
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