La araña Pirulina

J recited this poem in front of the school board last year. Solo!

La araña Pirulina
por la pared se subió,
y mi Tia Catalina
con la escoba la barrió.

Girl Scout Patches

L is a Girl Scout Daisy. Some of the fun patches are available in Spanish. Yea! Unfortunately, a couple of them are not translated well. (ie: partido instead of fiesta)

http://www.basicsclothing.com/history/heritage/culture

More Bilingual Flip Books

Tia Carrie gave us a set of beautifully illustrated flip books and the Farmer's Market game from Fitness4Kidz.com. The books are written in verse-one side in English and the other side in Spanish.

The website contains free lesson plans in English.

Websites Recommended To Me

I haven't tried these yet. (Or linked them.)

rif.org

literacycenter.net

bbc.co.uk/schoos/primaryspanish/start_here/

primeraescuela.com/themesp/alfabeto.htm

pacomova.eresmas.net/paginas/canciones_infantiles.htm

www.elhuevodechochocolate.com/cancion/cancion3.htm

doslourdes.net/Canciones_inf_prim.htm

youtube.com/watch?v=1WhjQGpSd0

youtube.com/watch?v=Z7R-QkOXgcUXgcU&feature=related

Halloween Movie

In honor of October, we watched Hocus Pocus for family movie night. We're limiting our English television/movie watching to Sunday evenings.

The children were terrified. J claims he will have nightmares for a month. It doesn't have a Spanish language track, although J and L said they would not watch it again anyway.

Guess I should have checked the review that said it was good for ages 8 and over, before we rented it.

Summer's Over!

Although it's 100 degrees today, summer's over. School's started, Labor Day has come and gone, as has the autumnal equinox. I guess it's time to get back to blogging. I now have 3 children in 2 different Spanish programs so I should have plenty to write about, right? It's just making the time...

Taking a break for the summer

to focus on Spanish.