Hello, blogger friends! I am so excited to share with you one of my classroom life savers as a Dual Language/ESL/Bilingual teacher. It’s the Academic vocabulary/ Spelling book. In this video I explain a little further why it saved my sanity! I failed to mention something important in the video. When the student ask his […]
Month: September 2017
Cognates words/ Los Cognados
As a 7th year Two-Way Dual Language teacher I have learned to appreciate different tools & strategies to help my students become better readers in two languages. An effective tool I have come to rely on more each year is cognate words (los cognados). I feel that this would benefit any dual language teacher, bilingual […]
Abreviaturas/ abbreviation in Spanish
Today we had a productive day in class learning all about abbreviations in Spanish. The most important part of this lesson for me was getting my students hooked and engaged since abbreviations can become boring for 6 &7 year old. My hook was to have them do abbreviations in a game format to lead them […]
Rules and Laws
We just learned all about Rules and Law in class this week. We talked about how good citizens follow the rules in laws in our community. As a class we brain stormed and shared some rules and laws that they already knew about. After that we tied their previous knowledge with the sort game to […]