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Creative Play Bilingual Homeschool
Jun. 11, 2009
Spanish phonogram cards/ Tarjetas foneticas
Here's a help to make your bilingual homeschool a little easier.
I have a new file to share-- finally! These phonogram cards contain closed syllables with -y, -r, -m, -n, and others; vowel combinations such as ai, ea, ou, etc.; and blends- dr, gl, etc.
Aquí esta otra ayuda para educar en hogar mas fácil. Tengo un nuevo file para compartir- por fin! Estas cartas foneticas contiene silabas cerradas con -y, -r, -m, -n, y mas; combinaciones de vocales como ai, ea, ou, etc.; y compuestos- dr, gl, br, etc.
Click here to download-- Haz clic aqui para bajar
Hope this comes in handy! One day, I'll figure out a way to put all the files together to make them easier to find.
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Sep. 18, 2008
Why Pregones? and more copywork sheets/ Mas hojas para copiar
I was asked by Ms. Alma Flor Ada what I like about her book Pregones. I've always liked it, but at the time I purchased it, I wasn't able to use the book as I wanted with my daughter. Now, that we are focusing more on her writing, Pregones has found a place in the curriculum
This is a series of childhood memories, and is filled with wonderful imagery. As a second-language Spanish speaker (although I've been speaking almost 10 years now), and an avid reader, being able to picture, smell, and be a part of a story can be difficult when I'm reading in Spanish. Ms. Ada's descriptions are clear, and just all-around beautiful. I'm there. The selections I've pulled for my daughter's copywork display a certain aspects of writing I want her to grasp (description, imagery, dialect, etc.), as well as different mechanics: such as writing dialogue (quotation marks are not used traditionally, although I've seen them used in more recent books).
I could have used just about any Spanish translation, but I wanted native-language. Alma's works are very accessible (as far as reading level, comprehension, etc.), interesting, and high-quality writing. And, well, some of it is just plain cute! It was hard picking what I wanted to include in her copywork. My daughter certainly helped as she had passages that spoke to her as well that she wanted to copy.
Other works I will use throughout the year, besides the Reina-Valera version of the Bible, will various poets from the book "Dia por dia de poesia", edited by Alma Flor Ada, "Las palabras que se lleva el viento" by Juan Carlos Martin Ramos (mostly to memorize works), passages from "De oro y esmeraldas- Mitos, leyendas y cuentos populares de Latinoamerica" by Lulu Delacre, "Platero y yo" by Juan Ramon Jimenez, and since I'm using Classical Writing, I've found translations of Aesop's tales.
Yenia's group, Educando en Familia, also has a lot of resources I haven't tapped into yet. I was supposed to have prepared everything this summer, but as you see, I'm now coming around.
Anyway, here are four more sentences from "Pregones" I hope you enjoy. My daughter told me I "had" to include the one on page three of the copywork :).
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Sep. 15, 2008
School started- Spanish copywork page/ Hoja de lectura para copiar
Well, we finally started school last week, but it's been slow going. I'm trying to kick into gear, but the only thing consistent is math. Today, after she wrote a thank you note to dh's boss, I decided to add in more copywork to her routine. For the next couple of weeks, she'll do a daily copywork page. Until we start the read-alouds in week 3, I'm going to start with "Pregones" by Alma Flor Ada. I bought this one of a series through MIBI Book, before they closed, and it's been sitting on my shelf for about 3 years. Del Sol Books now carries six of eight of the series, "Cuentos con Alma."
Here's the page she's doing today, the two different sentences came from two different paragraphs on the same page. I would like to send a thank you for the homeschool mom on WTM that created the template for me! Hopefully there will be more to follow in upcoming days and weeks. I'd like to do a week or two's worth at a time.
Spanish copywork page in PDF:
Copywork- Pregones 1
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Jul. 27, 2008
Spanish phonics- handout 2/ Hoja de silabas compuestas
Dear me. I figured out I did not post the second handout on my first Spanish phonics post (found here http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/creativeplay/555728/). The next handout also came from the public school bilingual teacher, Linda Flores. She was such an awesome teacher, and I learned a lot from her. Thank you, Linda Flores!
This one covers blends, compuestas.
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Jul. 2, 2008
Spanish phonics revisited- handout 1/ Hoja de silabas
Back on Valentine's Day of 2007, I wrote a blurb of how I taught my daughter to read in Spanish
(http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/creativeplay/285282/). Since the books I mentioned are no longer available (that I've found), I thought I'd try to upload a couple of files of one of the orders one can teach the syllables. I got this printout from a bilingual teacher named Linda Flores with whom I worked in a first grade classroom.
After teaching the vowels, then I used these as a general guideline of how to introduce the consonants.
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Apr. 9, 2007
Bilingual, Spanish, and Second language links
This morning, I thought I'd post some helpful links for those teaching in Spanish, bilingually, or Spanish as a second language. I did not collect these links on my own, rather there is a group of us that have compiled this, and continue as we find more. Later, I'll try to post more links to make worksheets, and flashcards. I know I have them around here somewhere.
Actividades del primer grado
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/vinculo/table1.html
Actividades Infantiles y Educación Preescolar. If you've ever heard of First School (http://www.first-school.ws), here is the Spanish counterpart. Alphabet activities and other themes.
http://www.primeraescuela.com
Art in Spanish
http://www.anacleta.homestead.com/artspanish.html
Crecer sin escuela - a homeschool link
http://www.crecersinescuela.org/
Enchanted Learning - a little of everything of every subject that you could ever want, in many languages - it's free, but for a small yearly fee you can become a member and get worksheets printed without ads.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Hubbard's Cupboard - Among other things, are printable sight word booklets in both English and Spanish
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org
La Lengua Española - ¿tienes alguna duda sobre nuestra lengua?
http://www.geocities.com/szamora.geo/
La pagina del idioma Español – Grammar! You can also subscribe to La palabra del día
http://www.elcastellano.org/gramatic.html
Lengua y Literatura en Primaria – Some of the links don’t work, but there are quite of few that are still useful – vocabulary;, ortografia
http://adigital.pntic.mec.es/cpr.utrillas/enlaces/lengua.htm
Literacy Center for Early Childhood - colors, alphabet, shapes, etc. in English, Spanish, German and French
http://www.literacycenter.net/
Mathematics links taken from http://adigital.pntic.mec.es/cpr.utrillas/enlaces/matematicas.htm – here are the links that work:
Antiquas pesas y medidas: http://www.arrakis.es/~lavelane/esintro.htm
Number and word puzzles (English): http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/puzzles/page3.html
Unidades y medidas: http://scsx01.sc.ehu.es/sbweb/fisica/unidades/unidadMedida.htm
Unidades Didácticas Matemáticas: http://www.pntic.mec.es/recursos/secundaria/matematicas/tiempo.htm
Multilingual Munchkins – resources, support group
http://www.multilingualmunchkins.com/index.html
Niños saludables – Picture stories with full color photos, and other stuff
http://www.une.edu.ve/kids/aprendo.htm
Online Spanish dictionary – Spanish word with definition in Spanish
http://tradu.scig.uniovi.es/busca.html
Ortografia
http://roble.pntic.mec.es/~msanto1/ortografia/index1.htm
Printable minibooks in Spanish
http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/indexsp.htm
Reading a-z - 30 free books, English and Spanish, more with memberships
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/tour/tour7.html
Reglas de Ortografia
http://www.lenguaje.com/secciones/ortografia/reglasb.htm
Santillana – Banco de actividades
http://www.santillana.es/proyectosEnRed/primaria/htm/banco.htm
Spanish musica, software, libros y videos
http://www.spanishtoys.com
Storyplace – La biblioteca digital de niños; There are stories in English and Spanish that are read to the children online. Also games and activities to go along with the story.
http://www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp
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Mar. 29, 2007
Two Spanish Vowel Poems
The funny one I originally learned while working in two bilingual classrooms is:
A, a, a - El burro se va.
E, e, e - El burro se fue.
I, i, i - El burro está aqui.
O, o, o - El burro se ahogó.
U, u, u - ¡El burro eres tú!
Later, I came across this version:
A, a, a - Abuelita ven aca.
E, e, e - Un besito te daré.
I, i, i - Un besito ya te di.
O, o, o - Un besito ya me dió.
U, u, u - ¿Me vas a dar uno tú?
Ok, I cannot remember the O part in the second poem. Maybe someone else out there knows it?
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Feb. 14, 2007
A simple how-to-- Teaching reading in Spanish
The question I often get is how did I teach Spanish reading to our daughter. Another variation of that question is: "How do I integrate more Spanish into our home?" The second question is more of a general how-to and will be dealt with later.
I began teaching dd reading in Spanish first when she was 4.5. I was working in two bilingual first-grade classrooms as an aide at that time, and in charge of a couple of 'low-scoring' reading groups. Why I was put in charge of teaching Spanish to native speakers, when I didn't have a first clue of how to going about it is still a question I ask myself. Fortunately, I latched myself onto native speakers who were teachers and learned a lot that semester (the teacher I worked under was... less than useful). I must say, I learned a lot of Spanish in the 1st grade, and realized how, although fluent, a lot of vocabulary comes from growing up with it. Simple phonics assumes a lot (the same goes for trying to teach non-English students to read in English without vocabulary development first; short-term results, long-term failures for English immersion students who usually grow illiterate in both languages - but that's a whole other post).
Dd was/is completely bilingual, so I could have gone either way in reading. As it were, by the end of the school year, I knew a lot more about teaching Spanish than English, and had been practicing on her ideas I wanted to introduce to my groups, so Spanish is the direction we went.
Our curriculum consisted of a photocopied Spanish reader and index cards. Another teacher had also given me a paper easel onto which I wrote a vowel poem (A, a, a, El burro se va....etc.). The index cards I wrote the different syllables (one week was ma/me/mi/mo/mu) and we would practice the syllables one at a time. As we added more letters, a favorite game was the Silly Word game. We turned the cards over two at a time, and read the "word" that was created. In the Spanish reader, after introducing the vowels began the letter /m/ and short phrases (Mi mama. Mi mama me ama. etc.), with each lesson introducing a new letter/syllable. I didn't use the reader extensively until her unofficial (because of age) K year though (it's a 1st grade text, so we stretched it out a little).
Really, that's all we did. I finally was able to find an online store that sold the readers with workbooks and teacher's guides, and passed the info on to my teacher mentors the next year so they could use it in their classrooms. We are currently using the second reader in the series, and then I'll have to find something else. It's only a 1st and 2nd grade series. Dd really enjoys it though (surprisingly) and often asks to read it.
Finding native Spanish materials in the US can sometimes be difficult. Our yahoo group has found a potential supplier, but they supposedly do not sell to individuals and workbooks must be sold in initial sets of 10. However, I put in a test order in December, and they were ready to sell. Also, I've met the rep for this area, and he's told me to just call him. We'll see. Next year, I will try to order the math, and see what's available for reading and I'll see how easy it is.
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