Happy New Year! We were all really excited to come back to school this week, which includes adjusting to the school schedule after a long break during which a lot of amazing things happened!
In order to address this adjustment period, which can include some levels of anxiety for students, we started the week practicing yoga using the Spanish language for different poses and executions. Both second grade and kindergarten replicated yoga positions, which they learned from observing a video of two children in action, and learned parts of the body such as feet, hand, leg, and arm. We also practiced greeting the sun and earth as well as various animal positions, which the students really enjoyed doing.
Now that we know a few yoga positions and proper Spanish pronunciation, students will be able to take a break as needed in class and go to our carpeted reading corner where they can take a yoga position card from our yoga basket and practice it in both vocabulary and physical execution. What a great combination! After this break, students can go back and engage in our Spanish lesson with a clearer mind and spirit.
After our yoga class, kindergarten learned about emotions. They danced and sang a new song where the focus was on different emotions and feelings such as happy, sad, scared, tired, and sleepy. We then played charades where we practiced those emotions by making facial expressions that the rest of the class had to guess in Spanish.
Second graders were introduced to our new "Diccionario en Español." Each student has his or her own individual dictionary where they write down words that they have learned in order to review and practice what we’ve done in the past. The goal is to create our own dictionaries by the end of the year.
In order to address this adjustment period, which can include some levels of anxiety for students, we started the week practicing yoga using the Spanish language for different poses and executions. Both second grade and kindergarten replicated yoga positions, which they learned from observing a video of two children in action, and learned parts of the body such as feet, hand, leg, and arm. We also practiced greeting the sun and earth as well as various animal positions, which the students really enjoyed doing.
Now that we know a few yoga positions and proper Spanish pronunciation, students will be able to take a break as needed in class and go to our carpeted reading corner where they can take a yoga position card from our yoga basket and practice it in both vocabulary and physical execution. What a great combination! After this break, students can go back and engage in our Spanish lesson with a clearer mind and spirit.
After our yoga class, kindergarten learned about emotions. They danced and sang a new song where the focus was on different emotions and feelings such as happy, sad, scared, tired, and sleepy. We then played charades where we practiced those emotions by making facial expressions that the rest of the class had to guess in Spanish.
Second graders were introduced to our new "Diccionario en Español." Each student has his or her own individual dictionary where they write down words that they have learned in order to review and practice what we’ve done in the past. The goal is to create our own dictionaries by the end of the year.
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