Tag: Spanish

Mon
21 May
2012 by

Give away reminder, my new craftivity and Summer games

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I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!
44 new followers in less than a week!
If you haven’t entered the give away there are only three days left.
Last week was a great week in school. We still have classes till June 22nd. We are practising our writing abilities with lots of fun prompts.
Today I am presenting my newest writing prompt. I think it is the easiest, the more creative and the cutest. Yes, it’s my favorite:
A small writing prompt to create your own ice cream shop and write about your favorite ice-cream flavor.
We will be doing it next month, but I know some of you are on your last days so you can find it on TPT.
You can use it in English or Spanish.
I will also share some games you can use on your Smart Boards or your students can use at home.
Some Spanish Summer games to practice during Summer Holidays.
It is divided into 3 categories:
INFANTIL (3-5year-olds.)
PRIMARIA (1st-6th grade)
SECUNDARIA (7th grade and above)

Enjoy your last days of school!

Tue
15 May
2012 by

Teaching a trial classroom.

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I have introduced myself as a dual language teacher. But in fact, I’m a trial language teacher.
This is how it works.
I teach in Spain, where everybody speaks Spanish. Spain is divided into different regions. Some of this regions have their own regional language: Gallego, Euskera, Catalan, Valenciano, Mallorquin… So if you teach in one of those regions you have a dual classroom.
How do we divide language teaching time? By subjects: language arts in both languages, maths in the kids mother tongue (in many regions their mother tongue is not Spanish, parents choose that option), Science and Socials studies are taught in the regional language
Specialities are taught by other teachers: P.E., Arts, Music and Religion. Parents choose the language they want kids to study them.
And here comes the English language. We have ESL, BUT it worked so poorly that when kids arrive to High School they can’t understand a simple conversation, so politicians decided some years ago that our classroom wouldn’t be bilingual any more, they will become TRILINGUAL. 

I know. It sounds crazy!

So this is how my classroom works:
Valenciano language arts
Valenciano maths
Valenciano Science and Social Studies
Valenciano PE
Valenciano Music
Spanish language arts
English ESL
English Art

I currently teach valenciano and Spanish language arts, math, Science and Social Studies. I used to teach Art too, it depends on the year.

I hope I explained it clear enough and you can see more or less how we teach in our TRIlingual school.

I will be linking up with I teach dual language who is hosting a very interesting linky party.

Sun
13 May
2012 by

Favorite (Spanish) Read-Alouds Linky Party

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I read this post from Run Miss Nelson’s got the camera and I needed to join.I will share my favorite Read-Alouds in Spanish.

You can find almost every book in this list in English too. But I just wanted to share them in Spanish.

I usually loop with my students (1st-2nd grade) so I have two different lists for favorite Read-Alouds for each grade.
In first grade I mainly read picture books that they will read later in the classroom library.
In second grade I love reading chapter books to my students. They still like picture books. But reading the first book on a character series helps me to ‘hook’ them on the series.

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