Week 3 BDLC

Hi folks!

This past week we continued our study of the colors as well as some of the other topics we've been learning about (greetings, please, thank you, you're welcome).

Since everything that I introduced at the beginning of the class was brand new, we need to take a few weeks to continue to reinforce the material so that your children can begin to internalize it. Did you know that students need to hear each vocabulary word between 50-100 times in order to acquire them? In addition to this unit on colors, I will continue to pepper every story with questions about color throughout the entire year to further reinforce it.

We also briefly began our numbers 1-10 (something which we will also focus on in the coming weeks). We sang "Diez Deditos," which is sung to the tune of the 10 Little Indians. It goes like this: (and here's a link-- this song can be found on the CD "Diez deditos" at the library)

1, 2, 3 deditos
4, 5, 6 deditos
7, 8, 9 deditos
Cuéntalos conmigo

2 manitas, 10 deditos
2 manitas, 10 deditos
2 manitas, 10 deditos
Cuéntalos conmigo

1, 2, 3 little fingers
4, 5, 6 little fingers
7, 8, 9 little fingers
Count them with me

2 little hands, 10 little fingers
2 little hands, 10 little fingers
2 little hands, 10 little fingers
Count them with me

And finally, one of my favorite songs to use to cue the children that we need to be quiet because a story is coming is called, La lechuza (The Owl)-- sung to the tune of Frere Jacques.

La lechuza, la lechuza
Que dice, “shhhh,” que dice, “shhhh”
Todos calladitos, todos calladitos
Que dice, “shhhh,,” que dice, “shhhh”

The owl, the owl
That says, "shhhh," that says, "shhhh"
Everyone quiet, everyone quiet
That says, "shhhh," that says, "shhhh"