603 Bilingual Education

Working in a religious school allows me to really elaborate and discuss the meaning of Christmas. As an enrichment lesson for my students I will be giving each student a South American Country and they will have to research how these countries celebrate Christmas. Also they will be discussing "Little Christmas," which is known as Three Kings Day. This is when the Three Kings gave Baby Jesus his gifts. This assignment will be a way to teach students how Hispanic cultures celebrate Christmas. I will be playing Spanish Christmas music, and teaching them fun Spanish Christmas words. I'm very excited about this assignment :-)

I have to say that these past 2 weeks have been going really well with my Spanish Lessons with my class. They are really enjoying the lessons, and because I do use interactive videos they have a lot of fun with it. The majority of my students have even memorized a song from one of the videos, and they want me to replay that video over and over again. One of the assignments that I gave was a worksheet with questions, and they had to answer it on their own through research. Many students went online and used Google Translate (which I find to not be 100% accurate all the time) and others used a bilingual dictionary which made me very proud. This week I will be challenging them and only speaking to them in Spanish and seeing who can respond using complete sentences.