I wanted to share with you today some random tips and trick for you to consider. I have added some pretty exciting items into my classroom this week. I find myself this year adding privileges at a slower pace. This years class is one of my most challenging classes ever, academically & behaviorally as they […]
Category: Spanish teacher
Free Texas Symbols in Spanish & English
Hello, today I wanted to share my Texas symbols booklet. It comes in both Spanish and English and best of all it’s FREE. It covers all the important symbols the students need to know such as Bluebonnet, Armadillo, Mockingbird, Pecan tree and more. They first identify the name of each symbol. Then they identify what […]
Academic vocabulary & Spelling book
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 […]
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 […]