Friday, January 15, 2010

Language Classes Restarting!

Hi! Just a reminder that all our language classes start-up again on Tuesday next week.

The Kindergarten class is now done with French and moving on to Spanish with Carl Brown.

Do let me know of any questions. --John

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Spanish Update

Hola a todos ...

If you only read this paragraph ... we have a request! We would like you to send one of two things with your child on Thursday ... either a family photograph (that can be cut up and used in class) or a listing of family relatives (name and relation) that they can use (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.). We will practice our Family vocabulary with a family tree activity, and the photos/lists will be useful.

Also, your child came home today with a page of vocabulary related to the Family. Please see if you can help them answer any of the questions on the back side. Some of you know a little Spanish, and can help them out. Others have French or Italian, or some other language to fall back on. Do your best, and don't worry if you can't get through all of the questions.

After a week off over Thanksgiving, we've got this week and next before we take a break until after the holidays. Tiffany and I wanted to send you an update of what we've been looking at so far. Hopefully all of the children are bringing their blue folders to class each day, since from time to time we add pages. We thought it would be good, though, to give you a list of the pages that each student should show in their folder so far:

1 - Frases importantes - Important phrases
2 - Dibujo de Halloween - Halloween drawing (different children have different pictures, so they won't all have the same page)
3 - La calavera - A Day of the Dead skull drawing
4 - Los nĂºmeros - Numbers
5 - El abecedario - The alphabet
6 - Bingo del abecedario - Alphabet Bingo
7 - La familia - The family

Thanks, and tell the children we'll see them on Thursday!
Paco y Tiffany