O'Quinn James Island

Senora Maria's students are having a great time learning the words for the parts of the face is Spanish class! Here, they are making their own pumpkin faces, practicing saying the words. 

Spanish classes at O'Quinn Mt.Pleasant

Attached are a few pictures from O'Quinn in Mt.Pleasant. As you can see from the pictures, Ms. Krystie gets the kids up and moving around and plays a lot of games while reinforcing Spanish. One of our favorite games to play in WL4K classes is the flyswatter game. We lay out pictures of the vocabulary topic we are teaching, say a word that goes with one of the pictures and the children take turns with the fly swatter hitting the correct picture! This game not only reinforces vocabulary, but also allows children to demonstrate listening comprehension and is good for younger children who sometimes are shy or not that vocal yet. Listening comprehension is the first step when learning a new language. 

Gracis!

French Halloween Vocabulary

French Halloween Vocabulary & Phrases

On this page you will find a complete list of French Halloween vocabulary words. While the holiday is not traditionally celebrated in France, it’s become a very popular holiday in Quebec, the French-speaking province in Canada. To say Halloween in French you simply say “l’Halloween” as there is no official translation. Also, to say “Trick Or Treat” (the line used by kids when asking for candy at peoples’ front doors) young kids in Quebec say, “Bonbons s’il-vous-plaît“, which means, “Candy, please!” In the list below you’ll also find various words for different kinds of costumes (“les déguisements d’Halloween” including the witch (la sorcière) and ghost (le fantôme).

l’Halloween Halloween	le déguisement d’Halloween Halloween costume	joyeux Halloween Happy Halloween!
le 31 octobre October 31 (night of Halloween every year)	l’automne fall/autumn	le bonbon candy
la citrouille pumpkin	passer de maison en maison pour récolter des bonbons (going from house to house to get candy, trick-or-treating)	la citrouille d’Halloween/le Jack à la lanterne jack-o’-lantern
le fantôme ghost/fantom	le monstre monster	le zombie zombie
le pirate pirate	la Toussaint All Saints Day	la sorcière witch
le vampire vampire	farce ou friandise! trick or treat!	le masque mask
l’araignée (f) spider	la maison hantée haunted house	le cimetière cemetary
le diable devil	le épouvantail scarecrow	hanter to haunt
le lutin goblin	le squelette skeleton	la momie mummy
Bonbons s’il-vous-plaît trick or treat! (used in Quebec)	la lune entière full moon	le balai broom

Spanish Halloween Vocabulary Activites

Spanish Halloween Vocabulary Activities

From the blog: http://www.spanishplayground.net

Halloween is more than candy and costumes. It is also a wonderful opportunity to practice all kinds of fun vocabulary associated with night, fall, fantasy and fairy tales. Here are some Spanish Halloween vocabulary resources and activities. There is also a printable list of Halloween vocabulary to use as a reference.

Halloween Cookie Cutter Painting
This Halloween painting activity is from All For The Boys. All you need is paper, paint and Halloween cookies cutters. The vocabulary that you practice will depend on your cutters, but in our house it wasfantasma, calabaza, sombrero de bruja, gato, and murciélago. This is also a great activity for practicing colors. When you are done, be sure to hang your picture where you can see it and talk about the different shapes. Of course, you can make cookies on another day. Cutting out cookies is another great language activity!

Halloween Yoga
Kids Yoga Stories has a sequence of yoga poses for Halloween with descriptions of each pose. Yoga is great for learning Spanish because kids are acting out the word and that helps reinforce the meaning. Also, movement enhances language acquisition. Use pictures or props as a visual reference for the different poses – this will set a wonderfully spooky mood!

You can read more about yoga and Spanish here. Use these words for the poses in the Halloween sequence:
el fantasma – ghost
el esqueleto – skeleton
la luna – moon
el árbol torcido – crooked tree
la bruja en una escoba – witch on a broom
el murciélago – bat
la araña – spider
la casa embrujada – haunted house
el gato – cat
el buho – owl
la calabaza – pumpkin

Halloween Sensory Bin
This Halloween sensory bin from Sugar Aunts is made with water beads and lots of little Halloween items from around the house. As you play, be sure to talk about all the creepy things you see and touch!

Halloween Charades
It is tons of fun to act out Halloween related words and phrases. You can draw picture cards or if your kids can read, you can write out the words of the clue. Buggy and Buddy has Halloween cards with pictures and you can cut off the English words. You can write clues like these:
caminar como Frankenstein
una bruja en una escoba
un murciélago
un hombre lobo
un vampiro
truco o trato
comer caramelos
disfrazarse
un fantasma
caminar como araña
ponerse una máscara
una momia
caminar por una casa embrujada

To make charades easier, you can include category like animals, scary things and places, body parts, and actions.

Halloween Song – Cinco Calabazas
Spanish Together has a fun song and video of Cinco Calabazas. This is great to sing for Halloween!

Printable Halloween Games
Arasaac has two printable games with lots of Spanish Halloween vocabulary. The first is a Halloween Juego de la oca. The other is a Halloween Bingo game. For me, the PDFs printed better than the Word documents.

Printable Spanish Halloween Vocabulary

Spanish Halloween Vocabulary List

These are the words on the printable vocabulary list:

bat – el murciélago
black cat – el gato negro
blood – la sangre
bones – los huesos
broom – la escoba
bug – el insecto
candy – los caramelos
cat – el gato
cemetery – el cementerio
coffin – el ataúd
corpse – el cadáver
crooked tree – el árbol torcido
costume – el disfraz
crow – el cuervo
darkness – la oscuridad
dead – muerto
Dracula – Drácula
dress up -  disfrazarse
fangs – los colmillos
fingernails – las uñas
Frankenstein – Frankenstein
full moon – la luna llena
ghost – el fantasma
hat – sombrero
haunted house – casa embrujada
mask – la máscara
monster – el monstruo
moon – la luna
moonlight – la luz de luna
mummy – la momia
night – la noche
October – octubre
orange – anaranjado
owl – el búho
party – la fiesta
potion – la poción
pumpkin – la calabaza
rat – la rata
scarecrow – el espantapájaros
shadow – la sombra
skeleton – el esqueleto
skull – la calavera
snake – la serpiente
spider – la araña
spider web – la telaraña
toad – el sapo
trick or treat – truco o trato
vampire – el vampiro
werewolf – el hombre lobo
witch – la bruja
zombie – el zombi

Spanish Halloween Video

Here is a video with a lot of Halloween Vocabulary for your little ones in Spanish!

"Los Monstruos"
by: Music with Sara
Artwork by: Kristine Cruz-Munda
Animation by: Emmanuel L. Munda
copyright 2012: Music with Sara and D-1 Productions

http://www.musicwithsara.com
http://www.ahappymommy.com

download your copy of "Los Monstruos" here
http://musicwithsara.bandcamp.com/

Turn on Close Caption to see lyrics on screen.

Lyrics:
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
Halloween Halloween
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
¡uuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Un murcielago
¡Bam! Vampiro
una araña
una bruja
un monstruo feo
un fantasma
salen .... en Halloween

The monsters all come out on Halloween 
Halloween Halloween
The monsters all come out on Halloween 
ooohhhh

A creepy bat
Bam! Vampire
scary spider
A flying witch
A big big monster
A spooky ghost
They all come out 
on Halloween

Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween
Halloween Halloween
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
¡uuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Un murcielago
¡Bam! Vampiro
una araña
una bruja
un monstruo feo
un fantasma
salen .... en Halloween

Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
Halloween Halloween
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
¡uuuuuuuuuuuuu!

French Halloween Videos

Here is a cute video that review Halloween Vocabulary in French!

Here are some other cute songs that I found that sing about Halloween in French.. Can you identify the Halloween vocab taught in the previous video?

And here is a French song from LCF Clubs Babelzone!http://www.lcfclubs.com/babelzonenew 'Pour faire une soupe' about making vegetable soup - with creepy Halloween legumes.

www.lcfclubs.com/babelzonenew
Lyrics:
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Un chou vert pour commencer
On mélange, on mélange
Un chou vert pour commencer
On mélange. C'est presque prêt.

Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Deux tomates pour continuer
On mélange, on mélange
Deux tomates pour continuer
On mélange. C'est presque prêt.

Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Trois carotte pour terminer
On mélange, on mélange
Trois carottes pour terminer
On mélange. C'est le dîner!

A table! 

Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Pumpkin Counting chants

This time of year is a fun time to be learning another language! We use pumpkins, skeletons, ghosts, etc to practice counting and to introduce body parts. This week in some of our classes, we have been learning the "5 little pumpkin" song / chant in French and Spanish!

Here are a few fun videos to reinforce these lessons!

Spanish version: 
Cinco Calabazas For more fun music in Spanish visit
www.123SpanishTogether.com
www.FunforSpanishTeachers.com

Cinco calabazas sentadas en su casa,

una calabaza se siente muy cansada.

Cuatro calabazas sentadas en su casa,

 una calabaza se siente asustada. 

Tres calabazas sentadas en su casa, 

una calabaza se siente enojada. 

Dos calabazas sentadas en su casa, 

una calabaza se siente muy frustrada. 

Una calabaza sentada en su casa, 

una calabaza se siente sorprendida.

Cinco calabazas sentadas en su casa, 

y cuando sale el sol se siente muy feliz.

 French Version:

Cinq petites citrouilles dansent dans la nuit.
La première dit, "Oh qu'il est tard."
La deuxième dit, "Qui passe là-bas?"
La troisième dit, "Je suis un fantôme."
La quatrième dit, "Oh, que j'ai peur."
La cinquième dit, "Vite sauvons-nous!"

English Version:

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said, "Oh, my it's getting late"
The second one said, "There are witches in the air."
The third one said, "But we don't care."
The fourth one said, "Let's run, let's run!"
The fifth one said, "We're ready for some fun"
 
Then Woooooo went the wind
And OUT went the lights.
 
And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Arc de Triomphe coloring contest

Madame Lauren had an Arc de Triomphe coloring contest in her French classes. And the winner is.... Sadie at Stiles Point! Félicitations!

Video resources for practice at home

LITTLE PIM VIDEO SERIES

Little Pim is a French and Spanish DVD series for kids. An animated panda bear guides young children through a series of exercises and activities as they learn the basics of French and Spanish.

The following excerpt comes from the Little Pim Website:

http://www.littlepim.com/

Little Pim’s award-winning language learning program for kids makes it fun and easy for children to learn a second language. With 11 different languages to choose from, Little Pim can help your child develop a lifelong love of language learning.

Our program includes digital videos, DVDs, flash cards, books, and music CDs to keep kids engaged and entertained as they learn a foreign language.

Being bilingual has become more important than ever. And scientific research shows that learning a foreign language comes naturally for children when they start at an early age. That’s why Little Pim is designed to teach kids a second language at the time they learn best: from ages 0-6.

Watch a sample of a French Little Pim video below:

Here is a sample of one of the Spanish videos:

MUZZY

The following comes from Muzzy Website: 
http://www.early-advantage.com/

In today's increasingly connected world, a second language opens up a window to a wealth of opportunity for children in their school years and in the years to follow. For over 25 years, MUZZY has been introducing millions of children world-wide to a second language. MUZZY has a long history of success, and now comes freshly alive with all new animation and sound. Developed by the BBC, MUZZY is effective for children of all ages, and now is a great time to get them started. Let your child explore a bigger world through language.

Here is a 15 minute sample of the French Muzzy video:

And here is a 15 minute sample of the Spanish video:

"Don't lose hope. We never know what tomorrow has in store for us"

Eiffel Tower craft!

For more fun 3D printouts... visit www.papertoys.com 

12 Traditional Games in Spanish

The following posting comes from the Blog Spanish Playground:
http://www.spanishplayground.net/12-traditional-games-spanish/

Traditional games in Spanish teach language and culture. These 12 games are from Latin America and Spain. All of them incorporate language, so they are excellent to play with children learning Spanish. In addition to vocabulary and common grammatical structures, the games are culturally relevant and fun. They are played every day by children around the world.

1, 2, 3 Momia Es (1, 2, 3 Calabaza)
1, 2, 3 Momia Es is a playground game kids play in South America. In Mexico, the same game is called1, 2, 3 Calabaza. In Spain, it is 1,2,3 Escondite Inglés and in English it is Red Light, Green Light. In the game, one player faces a wall or a tree with the rest of the group behind her at a distance. The group tries to move forward while her back is to them. She says Un, dos, tres momia es (or 1, 2, 3, calabaza) spins around, and tries to catch someone moving. Everyone must stand perfectly still, like a mummy, (or a pumpkin) while she is watching. If she sees someone move, that person must return to the starting line. The first person to reach her takes her place.

Basta
This game is called Basta in Mexico, but it has lots of names: Tutti frutti, ¡Mercadito!, Stop, Lápiz quieto, Animales con E, Alto el fuego, Ensalada rusa. It is a category game in Spanish – the original, non-commercial version of Scattergories.

To play this traditional children’s game in Spanish, everyone makes a game board with categories. Common categories include nombre, cosa, animal, fruta o verdura, color, país o ciudad and apellido. Categories can be anything though, including pop culture references like marca, música, famosos/as. When I play with children learning Spanish, I usually include verbo or acción as a category.

To play, players select a letter this way: one person says the alphabet very quickly and someone else stops her by saying basta. Whatever letter the person is saying when she hears basta is the letter for that round.  I have printable game boards and details on how to score the game in an earlier post.

Tripas de Gato
This is a traditional game where players take turns drawing lines between pairs of numbers (1 to 1, 2 to 2) without crossing or touching any other lines. This gets harder as the lines form a maze.

Here are more instructions and adaptations for language learners.

A Pares y Nones
This traditional game is played with groups of kids in Mexico. Everyone joins hands in a circle and walks singing the song. Then, the leader (teacher) calls out a number and everyone hurries to form a group of that many people. I have also seen the game played using other traditional songs, likeLimón partido.

This video shows the game with groups of different ages, so you can get a good idea of how it works. These are words that you hear in the video:

A pares y nones / Evens and odds
vamos a jugar. / We are going to play.
El que quede solo / Whoever is left alone,
solo quedará. / will stay alone.

Here is a post with another video of the game with slightly different version of the song.

¿Quién Robó el Pan?
This is a chant in the form of a dialog. Kids often play this game on a bus or when a group is waiting. Players clap as they recite this dialog:
Todos – Jorge robó pan en la casa de San Juan.
Jorge -¿Quién, yo?
Todos – Sí, tú.
Jorge – Yo no fui.
Todos – Entonces, ¿quién?
Jorge – Ana
Todos – Ana robó pan en la casa de San Juan.
Ana – ¿Quién, yo?
Todos – Sí, tú.
Ana – Yo no fui.
Todos – Entonces, ¿quién?
Ana – Mari

Here you can see a video of the game.

Mar y Tierra
This is a very simple game, and it can be played inside if you have enough space and do not mind the jumping. Kids jump between two spaces designated mar and tierra.
To play, kids line up beside a line on the ground, so that they can jump sideways over the line. They can also face the line and jump forward and back. One side of the line is mar and the other side istierra. A person who has been chosen to call first, calls out mar and tierra as the players jump across the line (or in place) to be on the correct side.

You can see videos of the game here.

Hand-clapping games
There are many traditional hand-clapping games. The simplest are based on one word, like mariposaor chocolate. Others are much more complicated. They all are wonderful for pronunciation and also teach vocabulary and structures. Here are links to posts about a few of the most common that I use with kids learning Spanish.
Mariposa and Chocolate
Por aquí pasó un caballo and Estaba la Catalina
Marinero
Debajo del puente

Piedra, Papel, Tijera
The game rock, paper, scissors is played all over the Spanish-speaking world. In most countries it ispiedra (rock), papel (paper) o tijera (or scissors). In Peru, it is called janquenpón, from the Japanese yan-ken-pon, and in Chile it is called cachipún. This is the rhythm of the chant as you play: piedra papel tijera

Frío o Caliente
Children play Frío o caliente in Spanish the same way they play Hot or Cold in English. There are just a few Spanish phrases to learn, and this game can easily be adapted to review Spanish vocabulary. It works well with just two or three children or a larger group. To play Frío o caliente, choose one person who will look for something. That person leaves the room, and the others hide a small object or choose something in the room.

When the person who is guessing returns, the others call out these Spanish phrases:
- Caliente, caliente – You are close.
- ¡Te quemas! (You are burning) – You are very close.
- Tibio, tibio (lukewarm) – You are at a middle distance.
- Frío, frío – You are farther away.
- Te estás congelando (You are freezing) – You are very far away.

You may want to set a time limit of two or three minutes. The game ends when the person finds the object, or time runs out. Someone else leaves the room and the game starts again.

Veo, Veo
Veo, veo is the equivalent of I Spy, and it begins with a simple rhyme – a question-answer exchange.
1 – Veo, veo. / I see, I see
2 –  ¿Qué ves? / What do you see?
1 – Una cosita. / A thing.
2 – ¿Qué cosita es? / What thing is it?

The game is great for practicing yes-no questions and all kinds of descriptive language. Here are several variations of the game and a Veo, veo song.

La Traes
Tag has different names in different Spanish-speaking countries. In Mexico, it is called la traes which translates roughly as “you have it.” In Spain, it is called pilla-pilla or tú la llevas. In Argentina, tag is la mancha and in Peru las chapadas. Of course there are many variations of tag, but there are phrases used to play basic tag in Mexico.
Vamos a jugar a la traes. – Let’s play tag.
¿Quieres jugar a la traes? – Do you want to play tag?
¿Quién la trae? – Who is it? (Literally – Who is carrying it? / Who has it?)
>Yo la traigo. – I’m it.  (Literally – I am carrying it. / I have it.)
¡Tú la traes! – You’re it. (Literally – You are carrying it. / You have it.)
Sofia la trae. – Sophia is it. (Literally – Sophia is carrying it. / Sophia has it.)
La base – safe (the place you can not be tagged)
Me salvo/ A salvo – I’m safe.

¿Lobo Estás?
To play this traditional game, the children join hands and walk or skip in a circle. One child, the wolf, remains outside the circle, a short distance away. (An adult can also play the part of the wolf.) The children in the circle walk and sing  Juguemos en el bosque mientras el lobo no está. Juguemos en el bosque mientras el lobo no está.  Then they stop and ask ¿Lobo, estás?  The wolf, answers by saying that he is putting on a piece of clothing and acts out putting it on: Me estoy poniendo los pantalones.The kids in the circle sing the song and ask again, until at some point the wolf answers: Estoy con hambre. Me los voy a comer a todos and chases the others.

Here are more detailed instructions for ¿Lobo estás? with adaptations for language learners and a link to a video.

Spanish Numbers

Hola! Students in WL4K classes get a CD full of music that we use during our lessons. Included on the Spanish CD is this great counting song by Sing, Dance, Laugh and Eat Tacos! Your children will all be bringing home their CDs this week! (If they did not get one last week)

http://singdancelaugh.com/ 

Elephant Counting Activity

In French and Spanish class, the kids have been having fun learning the numbers! One activity we use to reinforce numbers is to use our "Elephant Counting Game." Kids sit in a circle and either hold a "spider web" or a parachute and they take turns throwing in little laminated elephant pictures while singing or chanting the following:

FRENCH:
Un éléphant qui se balançait
se balançait sur une toile d'araignée
Et comme il trouvait ça très amusant
Il fit venir un deuxième éléphant

Deux éléphants qui se balançaient
se balançaient sur une toile d'araignée
Et comme ils trouvaient ça très amusant
Ils firent venir un troisième éléphant

Trois éléphants qui se balançaient
se balançaient sur une toile d'araignée
Et comme ils trouvaient ça très amusant
Ils firent venir un dernier éléphant

SPANISH:

Un elefante se balanceaba
sobre la tela de una araña,como veía que resistía fue a llamar a otro elefante.

Dos elefantes se balanceaban,sobre la tela de una araña,como veían que resistía fueron a llamar a otro elefante.

Tres elefantes...Cuatro elefantes...etc....

The English rhyme is similar,

"One elephant went out to play, 
upon a spider's web one day, 
he had such enormous fun
that he called for another elephant to come!"