Sunday, October 30, 2011

Video of kinders reading sentences!!!

Here's a video of the kinders reading sentences: "El rectangulo es rosa"!

Shapes board game video

Here's a video of the kids playing the shapes board game:
Last week we only have one class, so we reviewed vocabulary, played some Halloween bingo and then I gave each kid a "Spanish name". Some names don't quite have a direct translation so I tried to find a name that started with the same letter as the child name. I wrote the names on a card an we taped it on our wall. Here's the picture:

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Shape board game

I created a board game to practice shapes with the preschoolers and kinders. Here is what I did:
  1. Got a $1 poster board at the Dollar store.
  2. Divided poster board in 6 parts.
  3. Drew shapes in different colors (around 16). Make sure to use all the colors and shapes learned.
  4. Marked start & finish.
  5. I got a bunch of spider rings left over from Halloween last year, I cut the ring part and I used them for game pieces.
  6. Do the same on each part of the poster board, at the end you'll have 6 game boards.
To play:
  • Have the children take turns calling out the shape and color of the first shape in their game board. If they name it correctly they can move their game piece on top of that shape, if not, they will stay where they are.
  • Do the same for each shape until they get to the last shape.
Here are some pictures:


Shape sorting with the preschoolers

This week I reviewed shapes with the preschoolers. I went around the house and found objects in different shapes then, I put them in a heart shaped tray and had the children sort by shape.

Sentences with the kinders

This week we reviewed shapes and started "making sentences". I introduced El, La and es. Our sentence is: "El corazon es rojo". Here are the pictures: