27.2.2012 & 28.2.2012

Hola a todos! Many kids wanted to learn to count to 20, so we are working on that at the beginning of class, but we are beginning a unit on animals.

1-20 flash cards

1-uno

2-dos

3-tres

4-cuatro

5-cinco

6-seis

7-siete

8-ocho

9-nueve

10 – diez

11-once

12-doce

13-trece

14-catorce

15-quince

16-dieciseis (diez y seis)

17-diecisiete (diez y siete)

18 dieciocho (diez y ocho)

19 diecinueve (diez y nueve)

20 veinte

We’ll end with an intro. to animals through a picture book and listening to our next song which we will start working on next week, “Viejo Mc Donald Tiene una Granja.”

chicks - polllitos (poh-yee-tos)

duck - pato (pah-toh)

cow - vaca (bah-ca)

pig - cerdo (sehr-doh)

horse - caballo (ca-bah-yo)

goat - cabra (ca-brah)

sheep - oveja (oh-beh-ha)

cat - gato (gah-toh)

dog - perro (peh-rro)

La Granja del Viejo McDonald

(available on iTunes Karina Antonelli--Cantando en el Jardin)

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

(Old McDonald has a farm ee ii ee ii oh)

Y en esa granja tiene pollitos, iaiaoh!

(and on that farm he has chicks ee ii ee ii oh)

Que hacen pio aquí que hacen pio allá

(that go pio here and go pio there)

Pio, pio, pio sin cesar (pio, pio, pio without stopping)

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

(Old McDonald has a farm ee ii ee ii oh)

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

(Old McDonald has a farm ee ii ee ii oh)

Y en esa granja tiene patos, iaiaoh!

(and on that farm he has ducks ee ii ee ii oh)

Que hacen cuak aquí que hacen cuak allá

(with a quack here and a quack there)

Cuak, cuak, cuak, cuak sin cesar

(quack, quack, quack without stopping)

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

(Old McDonald has a farm ee ii ee ii oh)

Y en esa granja tiene vaca, iaiaoh!

(and on that farm he has a cow)

Que hacen mu mu aquí que hacen mumu allá

(that go moo moo here and moo there)

Mu, mu, mu, mu, mu sin cesar

(moo, moo, moo, moo, moo without stopping)

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

(Old McDonald has a farm ee ii ee ii oh)

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

(Old McDonald has a farm ee ii ee ii oh)

Y en esa granja tiene cerdos, iaiaoh!

(and on that farm he has some pigs ee ii ee ii oh)

Que hacen oink aquí que hacen oink allá

(with an oink here and an oink there)

Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink sin cesar

(oink, oink, oink, oink, oink without stopping)

El Viejo McDonald tiene una granja iaiaoh!

(Old McDonald has a farm ee ii ee ii oh)

febrero

I am playing a little catch up here. We have spent the month working on counting from 1-15 through calisthenics, bingo, hot potato, and plain old flash cards. We also did a lot of hokey pokey to keep the body parts fresh on our minds, but all good things must come to an end.

23.1.2012 & 24.1.2012

We are going to work on learning our numbers 1-10. I bet many children already know some if not all them in Spanish. We will also look at the calendar to help with visualization.

Our numbers song comes from Youtube under:

“Canciones infantiles los numeros 2” and features a little mouse with maracas.

Empieza con uno… (It starts with one)

Uno, dos, tres ,cuatro, cinco (1,2,3,4,5)

Seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, (6,7,8,9,10)

Y vamos a contar otra vez (And we are going to count again)

Because the kids love our Heads, shoulders, knees and toes song so much, I wanted to introduce a new song to keep it fun…Hokey Pokey which is available on iTunes as:

Spanish Playtime—Muévete-Learn Spanish Through Song and Movement--Hokey Pokey.

The lyrics are roughly translated on the Muévete web site as:

Mete una mano (Put your right hand in)
Saca una mano (Take your right hand out)
Mete una mano y sacúdela (Put your right hand in and shake it all about)
Baila el hokey pokey y (Do the hokey pokey and)
Dáte una vuelta (Turn yourself around)
Y así se bailará (And that’s what it’s all about)

Mete la otra mano (Put your left hand in)
Saca la otra mano (Take your left hand out)
Mete la otra mano y sacúdela (Put your left hand in and shake it all about)
Balia el hokey pokey y dáte una vuelta (Do the hokey pokey and)
Y así se bailará

Mete un pie (Put your right foot in)
Saca un pie (Take your right foot out)
Mete un pie y sacúdelo (Put your right foot in and you shake it all about)
Balia el hokey pokey y (Do the hokey pokey and)

dáte una vuelta (turn yourself around)
Y así se bailará (And that’s what it’s all about)

Mete el otro pie (Put your left foot in)
Saca el otro pie (Take your left foot out)
Mete el otro pie y sacúdelo (Put your left foot in and shake it all about)
Balia el hokey pokey y (Do the hokey pokey and)

dáte una vuelta (turn yourself around)
Y así se bailará (that’s what it’s all about)

Mete la cabeza (Put your head in)
Saca la cabeza (Take your head out)
Mete la cabeza y sacúdela (Put your head in and shake it all about)
Balia el hokey pokey y (Do the hokey pokey)
dáte una vuelta (turn yourself around)

Y así se bailará (that’s what it’s all about)

Mete la cadera (Put your hips in)
Saca la cadera (take your hips out)
Mete la cadera y sacúdela (put your hips in and shake them all about)
Balia el hokey pokey y (do the hokey pokey)
dáte una vuelta (turn yourself around)

Y así se bailará (that’s what it’s all about)

Mete todo el cuerpo (Put your whole body in)
Saca todo el cuerpo (take your body out)
Mete todo el cuerpo y sacúdelo (put your body in and shake it all about)
Balia el hokey pokey y (do the hokey pokey)

dáte una vuelta (turn yourself around)
Y así se bailará (that’s what it’s all about)

17.1.2012 & 18.1.2012

More body parts practice is on the agenda for today. Students pick a body part out of the grab bag to put together a puzzle "rompecabezas." We will discuss what body part came out of the bag before putting our person together. We will beginning some new vocabulary next week.

Head—cabeza (kah-bay-zah)

Shoulders—hombros (ohm-bros)

Knees—rodillas (rroh-dee-yas)

Feet—pies (pee-yes)

Eyes—ojos (oh-hos)

Ears—orejas (o-ray-has)

Mouth—boca (boh-kah)

Nose—nariz (nah-reez)

10.1.2012 & 11.1.2012

More body parts practice is on the agenda for today. Students did a dry erase board activity. I say a body part and the kids draw it to form a picture of a person or an animal.

Head—cabeza (kah-bay-zah)

Shoulders—hombros (ohm-bros)

Knees—rodillas (rroh-dee-yas)

Feet—pies (pee-yes)

Eyes—ojos (oh-hos)

Ears—orejas (o-ray-has)

Mouth—boca (boh-kah)

Nose—nariz (nah-reez)

12.12.2011 & 13.12.2011 Partes del cuerpo

More body parts practice is on the agenda for today. In addition to reviewing our heads, shoulders knees and toes, the kids will search their goody bags to show me the body parts I ask them to find. If time permits we will do a pin the body part on the boy activity.

Head—cabeza (kah-bay-zah)

Shoulders—hombros (ohm-bros)

Knees—rodillas (rroh-dee-yas)

Feet—pies (pee-yes)

Eyes—ojos (oh-hos)

Ears—orejas (o-ray-has)

Mouth—boca (boh-kah)

Nose—nariz (nah-reez)