Welcome back to my blog! I am here to bring you some goodies for Thanksgiving!
I would like to share with you what I used to do on that week before our days off. Every year my team and I would have outfits for our students to dress as Pilgrims or Native Americans. We would study all week about why we celebrate Thanksgiving and on Friday we would all watch "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" and have a big feast to simulate the movie.
We would make snack bags for each student. We would include popcorn, mini toasts, pretzel sticks, and M&Ms.
The kids always had a great time watching Charlie Brown and sitting to eat their snack "just like the movie"! We all enjoyed each other's company and had fun!
I would also like to share a Freebie I had created for you to use during these days. Thanksgiving is all about being thankful and share with others these special moments. I created a very simple, but cute Turkey bag where students can write what they are thankful for. This freebie comes in both English and Spanish! You can print the feathers in color construction paper or have fun with some Fall looking pattern paper!
If you would like to download this product, please click HERE
I wish you all a restful break! For some of you, enjoy the whole week off! I will see you next time!! :)
Hi my friends!!
I am back, but this time I will make it really fast since I am trying to get all my stuff ready!
I wanted to share with you some of the stuff I am getting ready for a mom's Spanish Play Date!
I have met some amazing mommas here in town and we all get together with our kids to play, have a snack or whatever! Sooooo I am making an event which I call Spanish Play Date! I will teach them a little bit of Spanish, do some centers, and then they will be all free to play around the house! Fun, Simple, and easy for all of us mommas to take a break!!!
I would like to share with you the things I'll be doing the kiddos! Hope you find this helpful and maybe you try it yourself at home with your own little ones!!!
Here we go!!!
1. First I will be presenting my new friend names Ñust'a! She is very special because she came all the way from Peru! (I am using these because I am originally from Peru, so I am making it a personal connection). Ñust'a is from Cusco and her name is very special because it means Princess in Quechua.
Ñust'a and I will be reading in Spanish "Maria tenia una Llamita" and they have the English version as "Maria had a little Llama." Technically is the same idea of "Mary had a little Lamb." I have had this book since my daughter was born and we just LOVE IT!!!!
I think the kids will also love it, so we are reading that! The book is bilingual, so I will be reading it in both Spanish and English :)
2. Then we will be watching and dancing different video s from Youtube that my kids and I love to watch and jam ;)
3. We will also read in small groups a very simple and fun book from my friend Mundo De Pepita!!! She has some AMAZING products at her store! I got this book from her! It is about saying Buenos Dias to different animals outdoors! I highly recommend it! Check it out HERE!
I only added some QR codes on each page with my voice. None of my friends speak Spanish so I really wanted them to take something with them! I included the QR codes so in case they want to read the book at home again, they know what to pronounce the words! :)
4. Along with this Read Aloud I am doing from Mundo de Pepita, I am also doing a matching game! This product includes some fun and colorful cards! I made the QR codes with my recording voice. Kids are scanning the QR codes to listen to the phrase and matching the QR codes with the correct picture card :)
5. To get kids moving I am doing a Scavenger Hunt game around my house! I will place the QR codes on the walls and kids will scan them to find the picture on their sheet! Again, I am using Mundo de Pepita cards on this! :) I just did a lot of cutting and pasting to create the sheet that the kids will use to record their hunt :)
6. If time is permitted, we will color and practice some simple and very common words in Spanish! I made this booklet that includes QR codes so they can practice at home! If we cannot get to this, it's ok. They will take it home and do that at home if they want to! :)
7. Last, but not least! Kids will be making a Paper Bag Turkey puppet! I created this last year with some writing on it. But since we are going this just for fun and these are kids that are not even in PreK yet, we are turning this writing puppet into just a puppet! I figured this is the perfect time to get some Gobble, Gobble going!!
THIS IS A FREE PRODUCT I CREATED MYSELF, IF YOU WOULD LIKE A COPY,
Well my friends this is it! I hope you find this helpful and even you give it a try! Visit my friend from Mundo de Pepita, she has awesome stuff! If you would like to get a copy of my personal books, please shoot me an email at My GMAIL and I will be more than happy to share it with you!!! :)
