Español con los Cardenales: La familia (The family)

¡Bienvenidos! During our previous clase de Español, it was Lilly’s turn to choose our destination. After our traditional morning greeting, she suggested we travel to Bolivia. Upon our return, we settled into this Spanish speaking country and gathered in a círculo.

Vocabulary words:

dónde – where

vamos – going

hoy - today

por favor - please

levantence - stand-up

carro - car

bote - boat

 bicicleta - bicycle

tren – train

avión– airplane

alas – wings

muéstrame - show me

vuela– fly

sientencen - sit

círculo - circle

Next, we reviewed the Spanish vocabulary words for some of the basic colores. To the tune of Frère Jacques, we sang the following:

Red is rojo

Green is verde

Blue, azul

Black, negro

Yellow, amarillo

Purple is morado

Gray is gris

Brown, café

Afterward, we went over the Spanish vocabulary for some of the facial features by singing the following. Amazing the memory los Cardenales have. Try them! They will impress you too.
                                                            

Esta es mi cabeza, (This is my head,)

Estos son mis pies. (These are my feet.)

Estos son mis ojos. (These are my eyes,)

Uno, dos y tres. (One, two, three.)

Esta es mi cabeza, (This is my head,)

Estos son mis pies. (These are my feet.)

Estas son mis orejas. (These are my ears,)

Uno, dos y tres. (One, two, three.)

Additional vocabulary words:

nariz – nose

boca - mouth

dedos – fingers

Next, we were introduced to the Spanish vocabulary that describes some members of a family. We read Gladys Rosa-Mendoza’s book, “My family and I – Mi familia y yo.” In the story, Emma introduced us to all the members in her family.

vocabulary words:

conocer – meet

familia – family

padres - parents

Mamá y Papá – Mom and Dad

Hermana y Hermano – Sister and Brother

 Abuela y Abuelo – Grandmother and Grandfather

 Tío y Tía – Uncle and Aunt

Prima y Primo - cousins

 perro – dog

gato – cat

amor - love

 

Following the read aloud, we had a brief discussion on families. We talked about how not all families are like Emma’s. For example some families have one parent such as a Mamá or a Papá or maybe there are dos padres (two parents) such as a Mamá and a Papá or dos Mamás or dos Papás. Or, some families have a Tío y Tía and some may have a Abuela y Abuelo raising the children. But, no matter who is in our family, there is one thing that we all agreed that is the same in every family and that is amor (love).

We finished our class with our traditional ¡Adios. Hasta luego! song and Lilly squeezing la vaca. ¡Gracias, Lilly!

Vocabulary words:

adios – good-bye

hasta luego – until later

gracias– thank you

de nada– you’re welcome

¡Hasta nuestro proximo viaje!

Paz,

Alicia