15 de abril

Our families are so important to us and the children loved practicing naming their family members and using Spanish words to identify them: madre, mother, padre, father, hermano/a, brother, sister, abuelo/a, grandmother and father. They know now that "girl" words in Spanish end in "a" and "boy" words end in "o" and we work on that each week. We continue to write word lists in Spanish and work on pronunciation. It is interesting to note that they attack the Spanish words with some of the phonics rules they know from English. Many times this works, when the Spanish is different, I prompt them.