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miercoles, 25 de marzo

Buenos,

We like to review what we have learned. We also love the challenge of learning new groups of vocabulary, such as articles of clothing. We do a variety of activities geared to aiding memorization. The children do well when they see how something new they are learning relates directly to them. Some people find that using Post Its around the house or bedroom using words there children have mentioned or chosen helps make learning fun and available on a daily basis. We are off to Spring Break and have talked a bit about what will happen during the vacation. Happy Spring to all!

miercoles, 18 de marzo, 2015

Hola,

We are enjoying learning about our communities and the places we go in our daily lives: museums, grocery stores, libraries and more. We play Veo, Veo, Simon Dice, and Manos Arriba. Remember that I have sent home compact discs of Spring songs which we help your kids a great deal when by listening and pairing words with melody and rhythm. We are a great group!

Lucy

miercoles, 11 de marzo, 2015

  Buenos Dias, Padres,

Spring is such a happy time and the children get excited about making spring blossoming trees with tissue paper for the flowers on their trees!
I share library books with them that relate to our themes of the week. I recommend that you go to the Santa Cruz Public Library online and see the Spanish stories that are available. The bricks and morter location also has a great collection of bilingual books. We are still learning vocabulary lists that the children made of Spring-related words.

miercoles, 4 de marzo, 2015

Queridos Padres,

The children  have been so busy  with practicing alphabet sounds and letters, making necklaces, and writing letters on serious, lined notebook paper. They love making word lists and work very hard in writing and learning the new vocabulary words. We have added a new game called "manos arriba", which is a fun way to reveal what your answer is when asked a question that needs a response in English or Spanish. I want to remind you to reinforce what the children have learned by looking at the notebook. The class is really bonding.