Hola padres! Happy New Year! It is so good to be back! I hope you all had a restful break and an exciting time with those cute Kinder projects. It was so wonderful to see the children's faces last Friday and feel their excitement as they came in with all the hard work they had done. What a great way to start the semester!
I was very sorry to be gone two days this week, but I had three children of my own at home with fevers as the flu bug attacked our household in full force. Thankfully, we are all on the mend and I was able to be back on Wednesday. I concentrated this week on some review of colors and la naturaleza or nature with a fun game of Bingo.
The most exciting part of the week was the introduction of the Spanish Survival Expressions that will help us step up our game in Kinder Spanish this semester. I have chosen five short phrases that I am hoping the children can master to communicate with in Spanish class. These phrases include, "may I use the bathroom?", "more slowly please", "I have a question", "I don't understand" and "please repeat". I have laminated cards with pictures that match each of these phrases and the written phrase is on the back. At the beginning of class, I put these cards up on the board with magnets. When the children want to express their requests during class, they can raise their hand and use the phrase in Spanish or they can come up to the board, point to the appropriate card and receive help from myself or their classmates to let me know what they need. I am hoping this will serve two purposes: one, that they may begin to speak in Spanish themselves in class and two, that this will limit their trips to the bathroom since in order to use the bathroom, they will have to use the phrase in Spanish "?puedo ir al bano por favor?". Since Spanish is only thirty minutes long every other day, it would be great for them to use that time to their greatest advantage as much as possible. So far, there are a handful of kids who have mastered the phrase and I am so excited! I am hoping this will excite their classmates to follow suit. By the end of the semester, I hope they all will be able to ask to use the bathroom without any assistance. We will surely put lots of practice in and urge each other on.
Again, it is great to be back and I look forward to teaching your children Spanish!
Sra. Hamilton
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