We are doing all kinds of fun things in Wildcat Spanish in October. In Spanish 2, we just finished reading my book Papálotl. We learned about the monarch’s life cycle and also their relationship to Día de Muertos. Now we are watching Coco as we prepare for our first essay of the year. They get a choice board!
In Spanish 3, we have done several clip chats (including Mamá, Alma, El monstruo del armario, and Closet Space). We are following it up by watching the Guillermo del Toro film El Orfanato (permission slips required if you show this one). Next week, they will also be doing a choice board essay! (Very similar to the Spanish 2 but pushing them to write at paragraph level across all options.)
In Spanish 4, we’re doing a new little unit this year. We started with my friend Nelly Hughes (@comprendesmendezmx on Instagram) unit called La leyenda de la calle Olmedo. We spent four days in the story of the legend and then moved on to my friend Kristy Placido’s resource for the Dirt Devil Exorcist commercial. I loved doing these two together because the vocabulary we learned in the legend unit let us describe the dirt devil commercial in detail! The kids thought both were really engaging. Tomorrow we will start watching the animated film La leyenda de La Llorona. (Not the recent live action one… too scary for me.) They will also have a choice board that has them describing one story in detail, comparing and contrasting two of the stories, or comparing the stories we learned with a story they already know.
I will be sad to see spooky season go, but I’m excited for the Global Seal of Biliteracy YCRED event that is starting next week! If you have never attended, you should give it a try. We will do two class periods, but you can do as little as 15 minutes! It’s a little conference designed for students to learn the WHY of becoming bilingual. I’m presenting and so is my student, Kinsey!
Last, but not least, I’m so excited to share that my audiobook for El espíritu de Xólotl is ready. My artist KILLED IT. He said he just couldn’t imagine telling the story without kids voices, so he enlisted his kids to voice Xoli and his friends. It turned out so, so well. Find Xoli and all his resources here:
Audiobook TPT Somewhere to Share
Teacher’s Guide TPT Somewhere to Share
The holidays are coming! May your lessons be well planned, your students be well behaved, and you be well rested.
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