Hola a todos,
I bet you have been wondering what your children are learning in Spanish class! Recently Kindergarten has been working very hard on memorizing the numbers 1-20 in Spanish. We have 1-10 down pat.
This week, to help us practice counting out loud, we played hopscotch! Each child had to hop across the squares, counting each hop out loud in Spanish. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez!
See if your child can count to ten at home! I bet he or she can get to at least 6.
We have also been hard at work learning our Spanish color words. Some of these words are quite a mouthful, so while many children are not able to pronounce all of them, they can (and usually do) recognize the spoken word. Somewhere in your student's backpack you should see a beautiful rainbow that he or she colored with the color words written on it. The more your child sees and hears these words, the more likely they are to remember them! Maybe you could hang their artwork on the fridge!
If your child's rainbow has gotten lost (which happens!) these are the color words we have learned--with helpful pronunciation!:
Rosado (pink) rose-ah-doh
Rojo (red) row-ho
Anaranjado (orange) an-ah-ran-ha-do
Amarillo (yellow) ahm-ah-ree-yo
Verde (green) vair-day
Azul (blue) ah-sool ("sool" rhymes with "school")
Violeta (purple) vee-oh-let-ah
Marron (brown) mah-roan ("roan" rhymes with "cone"
Negro (black) nay-grow
Blanco (white) blahn-co
I bet you have been wondering what your children are learning in Spanish class! Recently Kindergarten has been working very hard on memorizing the numbers 1-20 in Spanish. We have 1-10 down pat.
This week, to help us practice counting out loud, we played hopscotch! Each child had to hop across the squares, counting each hop out loud in Spanish. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez!
See if your child can count to ten at home! I bet he or she can get to at least 6.
We have also been hard at work learning our Spanish color words. Some of these words are quite a mouthful, so while many children are not able to pronounce all of them, they can (and usually do) recognize the spoken word. Somewhere in your student's backpack you should see a beautiful rainbow that he or she colored with the color words written on it. The more your child sees and hears these words, the more likely they are to remember them! Maybe you could hang their artwork on the fridge!
If your child's rainbow has gotten lost (which happens!) these are the color words we have learned--with helpful pronunciation!:
Rosado (pink) rose-ah-doh
Rojo (red) row-ho
Anaranjado (orange) an-ah-ran-ha-do
Amarillo (yellow) ahm-ah-ree-yo
Verde (green) vair-day
Azul (blue) ah-sool ("sool" rhymes with "school")
Violeta (purple) vee-oh-let-ah
Marron (brown) mah-roan ("roan" rhymes with "cone"
Negro (black) nay-grow
Blanco (white) blahn-co