Kindergarten: Las Hojas

We have continued our autumn theme by looking at the árboles (trees) and changing hojas (leaves) around us. To describe these, we have been continuing to practice our words for sizes and have been adding words for fall colors. The colors shown below correspond to a song we learned about the falling leaves:

 rojo

amarillo

 marrón

 anaranjado

Students should be comfortable singing the slow part in the beginning and at the end (this part uses their color words and some hand motions about falling leaves). The faster part in the middle is about raking leaves into a big mountain to jump in. Kindergarteners have enjoyed choosing leaves, naming their colors, and decorating our class tree together!

Kindergarten - Las Calabazas

To celebrate el otoño (autumn), we have been spending our time in Spanish class describing many different kind of calabazas (pumpkins). To do this, kindergarteners have been hard at work learning many adjectives, including the words for sizes and colors. Below are some photos of pumpkins (some we already looked at in class; others are new). See if your child can use a Spanish word or two to describe the pumpkins they see. Numbers count as adjectives, so you can also ask ¿Cuántas calabazas hay? and let them count them up.

We also talked about how pumpkins are feeling...with jack o'lanterns! Today we completed a small art project in which each student designed a calabaza especial and described how it is feeling. Ask your child to see it, and to describe the pumpkins feelings aloud. Feeling words can be found here for a refresher.