Kinightball, review games and a Spanish app!

Feliz ano nuevo, padres! As hard as it was to get up at a normal time this week, I am glad to be back in the routine and rhythm of things. I want to thank so many of you for meeting with me last week during conferences; it was so nice to chat with you and be able to discuss how this whole Spanish /P.E. thing works. Hopefully, you have a better understanding for what your children do with me here on a daily basis and are able to better encourage and support them as we continue the year. 

This week in Spanish, I mainly focused on review. We played Loteria (Bingo), en todo el mundo (around the world) and a team play game where I started to put together phrases in Spanish for them to translate into English. You should have seen their faces when they realized the phrases they had to translate were "the book is scared" or "the teacher is strong". I love to see their minds work and their faces light up as they figure these things out. 

In both first grade and Kindergarten, we have been talking about winter and making snowmen. Ask your scholar if a snowman is actually "snowman" in Spanish or if they use a slightly different word. I bet it will be interesting to hear. 

We have also been working on saying the date in Spanish. They have learned a few new words and the order in which it is said in Spanish as it is slightly different than in English. This is a skill we will practice for the remainder of the year. It will give them quite a bit of practice in saying their numbers, months of the year, and days of the week. Hopefully, we will have this mastered in the next few weeks. 

As we move on in Spanish, we will begin to talk about family and the names of different family members. This is always a fun unit as these scholars always have such fun stories to tell about their families.

In P.E., we have moved on to Knightball from Dodgeball. The kids seem just as enthusiastic about it as they were about Dodgeball and it is nice to have a new variation of the game to play. Please keep your eye out early next week for some information on the Jump Rope for Heart event that will be happening in February. This is always an exciting event for the scholars.

Lastly, I'd like to mention a fun app that I've learned about put out by Rosetta Stone. It is called the Rosetta Stone Kids Lingo Word Builder and helps them not only learn some Spanish, but also works on reading in English. Check it out and see what your kids think. 

Adios, 
Sra. Hamilton