La Ropa

We have been studying about clothing and clothing descriptions. The past week we have learned vocabulary and how to describe what color clothes are. We played a "Guess Who" game describing different people in the classroom and sang a song about clothes. A new game we played was "Upset the Laundry Basket" I gave each student a description and they had to find the piece of clothing in my laundry basket. This week we will also be doing collages with magazine pictures to describe more types of clothing. This picture is of first grade students in Kalona playing the laundry basket game.

Dia de Tres Reyes

¡Bienvenidos! Welcome back to Spanish class after a great holiday break. Before the break we discussed Las Posadas a holiday that acted out the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. This week, even though most of our holiday celebrations have ended in Spanish speaking countries many people are still celebrating. On January 6 many countries celebrate Dia de Los Tres Reyes, or Three Kings Day. Students learned that children will leave out their shoes at night so that the kings will come and give them presents just like they brought Baby Jesus presents. We read a story about Three Kings Day and played a game that had to do with Pan de Reyes (bread of the Kings). We also made crowns to remember the three kings. Mrs. Simon's third grade class is modeling their crowns!