Animales de la Selva Lesson Plan

We have been sick for a couple of weeks. But we hope to have class next week. Here is a class we did a couple of weeks ago.


Animales de la Selva

Buenos Dias by Jose-Luis Orozco (see first lesson for explanation)
Como Te Llamas Tu tap (see first lesson for explanation)

Activity: Each child took turns drawing a stuffed animal out of the bag. I would say the names and all would repeat. They drew out un elefante, un leon, un mono y un oso.

Game: All the children covered their eyes while I hid one of the animals behind my back. Then the children opened their eyes and had to answer the question, "Cual animal no esta?" El elefante no esta. We did this multiple times.

Book/Flannel Board: Oso Pardo, Oso Pardo by by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle
*I checked out a storytime kit from my library which came with this adorable flannel board storytelling kit from Lakeshore Learning. Check to see if your local library or one nearby lends storytelling kits :) I would pause to see if they could name the animal before me as I read the story.

Activity: I took out a barrel of monkeys (they are like $5 at walmart). The children had to help me count as I hung each monkey on top of each other. "un monito, dos monitos, etc." Of course, they loved it when one monkey would fall. After we counted to ten, I swung the monkeys so that they would fall all around the kids . Se cayeron todos los monos! The kids loved this. They helped me put them back in the barrel and we did it all over again. I think this time we even sang the song to the tune of Ten Little Indians singing:

Uno, dos, tres monitos,
cuatro, cinco, seis, monitos,
siete, ocho, nueve monitos,
diez monitos son.

*They have already sung this song with other animals and they love familiarity and repetition.

Cancion: Es Hora de Leer

Book: En un árbol, están 5 monitos by Eileen Christelow

I changed the words slightly when they got to the crocodile part and I actually sang it like this song.

Song: Cinco Monitos Columpiandose en un Arbol
(I don't own the song, just heard it and sang it myself.)
After we read the book, I brought out a glove (again from the library storytime kit, but you could easily make one) The glove had 5 little monkey heads on each finger. My oldest daughter helped me cut out a tree top shape and I pasted it onto a brown paper sack. I had the sack around my arm and the glove peaking out over the tree top.

The kids sang this song with me this time (we just sang it, no music). We did this a couple of times. They loved watching the monkeys disappear with my glove puppet. Here are the words from this website:
Cinco monitos
columpiandose en un arbol,
molestatando al caiman,
"no me puedes agarrar."
Llego el caiman
muy calladito
y agarro a un monito
fuera del arbolito.
Cuatro monitos...Tres monitos...Dos monitos...Un monito...


That is just a winter glove with monkey heads hot glued on. My oldest made the cute alligator!

Book: De Paseo por la Selva by Debbie Harter. This has such a fun CD that goes with it. We love listening to it! We listened to the book/song on CD and of course they loved it!

Craft: Osos de Chocolate,
yummy for the kids (chocolate doughnuts like these are gross to me, but the bears are cute :)

Supplies:
1 Chocolate covered mini doughts (la cabeza)
2 chocolate goldfish (stick the fish tail in the doughnut and they look like orejas)
3 chocolate chips or raisins (los ojos y la nariz!)



Things we had planned, but we didn't do:
Animal Puzzle- My girls and I put together this adorable jungle themed animal puzzle. Then I took out 4 pieces that you could tell went to a certain animal (the lion's head, the elephant's feet, etc.) We were going to have each child have a puzzle piece. Then ask, "Quien tiene la cabeza del leon?" until we put the whole puzzle together.

Song: Cinco elefantes con una tela de arana. Next week I will be doing a fun craft to go along with the song.

*Please leave a comment if you sing a song, read a book or do any games or activities mentioned here! We would love it!

Animales: Las Mascotas

I have to mention that I love having a mom that loves Spanish teaching as much as I do. I chat with her probably every week about what I am planning to do. She always has great activities and songs to suggest. A lot of these ideas come from her! Thanks, mom!

Well, I am a week behind. This is what we did last Thursday, not this morning :)

Welcome Song: Buenos Dias
Como te llamas?

Song: Los Patitos Van al Agua (the only recording I could find is not a good recording, she even says she has a sore throat. She sings other verses and leaves out the tralala at the end You can find it here.)
Los patitos van al agua, tienen ganas de nadar
En hiladas bien formadas, todos pueden caminar
tralala tralala tralalalalalala

After I sang it two times with the flannel board from last week. I had the children act like ducks and get in a line following me as the mother duck and quacking a lot :)

Book: Ven, Gatita, Ven! by Pat Mora

Activity: The children closed there eyes while I hid a stuffed animal cat. Then they took turns hiding it. The children had to say "Donde esta la gatita?" Ella encontro la gatita! as we played.

Activity: We did a simple game of charades. A children drew a picture of an animal and had to act it out while the other children guessed which animal he/she was.

Song: I passed out 10 little dog cut-outs. We sang Diez perritos to the tune of 10 Little Indians.

Uno, Dos, Tres perritos.
Cuatro, Cinco, Seis perritos,
siete ocho, nueve perritos,
diez perritos son.

Song: Soy su amiguito- this is a great song. I took a little video of my girls singing it and I also have visuals. We'll see if I have time to post them.

Book: Corre, Perro, Corre! by P.D. Eastman I skipped half of the book! I read the beginning and then when the dogs go to bed and then go to the party in the tree. I knew the children wouldn't last as long as the book. They loved the book!

Craft: We created a spin-the-animal for the kids to play at home. They have to ask Que dice el pato? every time they spin the animal.

Spin the Animal

Immersion Class: Los Animales de la Granja

Welcome song: Buenos Dias
Names: Como te Llamas tap

Puppet: El pato? Que dice? Guau, guau? No, los perros dicen gua, guau, guau. Dicen miau, miau? No, los gatos dicen miau, miau. All the kids have to ask, Que dice el pato? so that the duck can quack

Flannel Board Story- Tres patitos
Tres patitos salieron a pasear sobre las montañas, muy lejos
Mama pata dijo: "cuac, cuac, cuac"
Pero solo dos patitos volvieron con mamá.
Dos patitos salieron a pasear …
Pero solo un patito volvió con mamá.
Un patito salió a pasear…
Pero ningun patito volvio con mama.
La triste mamá pata salió a pasear …
¡Y los tres patitos regresaron con mamá!

Activity: I have a little baby chick toy that will make a chirping sound when you pet it. Each student had to say, Que dice el pollito? in order to pet the chick and listen to it say pio.

Song: Los pollitos dicen by Jose-Luis Orozco
We sang it by looking at pictures from this book's illustrations, then we sang it using basic hand movements.

Video clip: We sang the song with basic hand movements and then we watched the video here.

Activity: I gave each child a baby animal. Everyone repeated the names of the animals as I passed them out. Then, I showed them a picture of the Mommy animal and the child that had the baby had to come up. Lots of repeating the animal names.

Book: Sali de Paseo by Sue Williams

Activity: We acted like dogs, cats and ducks after I showed them those pictures:)

Video clip: I showed a short clip to introduce el burro from Los Animales Whistlefritz DVD.

Song: Vengan a ver mi granja by Jose-Luis Orozco. Each student had an animal in the song on a popsicle stick. They had to hold it up when their animal was sung.

Book: La vaca que decía oink

Craft: They colored, cut out and attached yarn to make a pig mask. They could either oink or moo when they were pigs (like the book!)

*I attached all my visuals for the class in a PDF for you to print easily! First page is the pig mask craft. Mommy and Baby animals are pages 2 & 4. Page 5 has pictures for the Tres Patitos feltboard story. Pages 6 & 7 are visuals to cut and put on popsicle sticks to give to the children while singing Vengan a Ver Mi Granja.

To print- click on the title link to go directly to Scribd. Then click print on their website right above the title of my document.
granja animales

Immersion Class: La Ropa

Greeting: (see other days for links or explanation)

Buenos Dias
Como te llamas tu

Song: Cabeza, cara, hombres, pies (link on past entry)

Puppet: Carlos el Caballo Puppet comes out and wants to put on socks. He first wants to put them on his ears, then his nose and finally his feet. I ask the children after putting them on each part if that is where they should put them. We count each sock together as I put them on his feet (un calcetin, dos calcetines, etc.)

Video Clip: I showed a 2 minute video clip from Whistlefritz Vamos a Jugar video. It is an adorable clip of Maria trying to decide what to put on her head. She puts pants, a sock, a skirt and then finally a hat on her head. Lots of repetition and little kids think it is so funny!

Song: Así nos ponemos.. (to the tune of This is the way we..)

I took each piece of clothing out of a bag, said it's name and then we would pretend we were putting it on as we sang.

Así nos ponemos los pantalones, los pantalones, los pantalones…

Así nos ponemos los pantalones, todas las mañanas
-la camiseta
-la chaqueta
-los calcetines
-los zapatos

Activity: Clothes Line with clothes on them
As I hung up each piece of clothing, all the children repeated its name. Then I asked each child to run and get me each piece. Then we would say, "Jack (name of the child) quito la camiseta" together.

Cancion: Quiero mis botas donde estan? A cute song from Lango Kids about a person looking for their clothes and they are actually already on them.

Reading song: Es hora de leer
Libro: Azul el sombrero, Verde el Sombrero By: Sandra Boynton

Game: All the children closed their eyes while I hid pictures of clothes around the room. Then I asked each child to find a piece each time. After they found it, we would all say "Jack encontro la camiseta" all together.

Song: Si llevas....To the tune of If you're Happy and You Know It.

We would see who is wearing a shirt and then sing.

Si Llevas camiseta, saltaras. Si Llevas camiseta, saltaras.

Si Llevas camiseta, que divertido es! Si Llevas camiseta, saltaras.

Then we would see who is wearing pants, a dress, shoes, etc. and then sing a new verse.

Reading song: Es hora de leer

Book: Juguemos en el bosque By: Claudia Rueda. Easy to translate especially since it is a traditional game in Latin America
I wrote a post about this and other possible activities here.

Craft: Dora and Diego paper dolls

Immersion Class: Parts of the Body Part 2

We continued learning vocabulary of parts of the body on Thursday's class.

To answer a few questions that were asked in the comments:

I charge for the classes (although I offer a free trial class for anyone that wants to try it out)

Each week there has been a different number of students. Only 3 students have officially signed up for the classes, but my classes have ranged from 4-9 children in the classes. I have my two older girls in the classes as well. I hope to get more committed students if I decide to continue in the Fall. I have advertised in the Spanish speaking moms group that I am a part of. Another homeschooler that is part of my church also has her daughter in the class. I use so many different resources. If you didn't notice my hobby is finding all the music, DVD's and activities to teach my kids Spanish. I have written about products (CD's and DVD's) I use in the past.

**I like using lots of repetition. A lot of the activities are the same as last week or build on each other. This way the children feel comfortable with what they have learned and really learn it :)

Parts of the Body Part 2

Song: Buenos Dias by Jose-Luis Orozco

Game: Como te llamas? This is a good way to introduce everyone if there are new faces :) We patted our laps 2 times, clapped our hands 2 times and repeated again and again to keep in rhythm. We would say to the beat Como te llamas tu? and each child would say Yo me Llamo... (or I would say it with them) to the beat.

Puppet: La tortuga came out. I had him sleeping and all the children had to yell "Despiertate" so he would wake up. It took them 3 times to tell him to wake up before he actually woke up :).

Then he asked for their help in finding the parts of his body. The children showed him where ojos, boca, cabeza and manos are. They all touched their eyes and then one child got to touch the tortuga's eyes.

Song: Cabeza, cara hombros pies (I love this version because there are only 4 parts of the body they need to know.) We sang this song only 3 times. Each time the kids picked a card that would have a different way to sing it (sad, happy, loud, soft)

Activity: Senor papa comes out again. They gave him a face by pulling things out of the bag. Then we played a game where all the children closed their eyes and I took one part of the face away. They all opened their eyes and they had to answer. Que le falta al senor papa?

Fingerplay: Saco una manito, la hago bailar, la cierro, la abro, y la vuelvo a guardar.

Song: El Baile de Las Manos

Game: Bingo! I made the exact same bingo sheets with the same 8 parts of the body, but I just switched which square the pictures were in. I called out each picture and before they could put a cheerio on their picture, they had to say the word. Then after it was finished, they got to eat their nine cheerios!

Song: Los Ninos Cuando Bailan. I love the Whistlefritz A Bailar CD. It's very fun like Jose-Luis Orozco.

Reading Song: We always sing a little song I made up before we read our stories. It is magical, they are so quiet! I will have to record it sometime.

Book: Donde esta el ombliguito por Karen Katz

Activity: I brought out a sleeping baby doll. They had to touch the different parts of the body that were told in the story.

Craft: I bought butcher paper from Lakeshore Learning. The children each laid down on the big sheets and the moms outlined them. They then had to color their ojos, nariz, pelo, etc. Even if the drawings ended up looking like monsters, they loved it :)

I hope you will use these ideas in your classrooms and homes! I am also giving my student's moms a link to this so they can practice fingerplays or activities with their children at home.

Immersion Class: Parts of the Body

I have started an immersion Spanish class for 2-5 year olds. I am having a lot of fun with it. Some of the children are native speakers and some know just a little Spanish.

The reasons I am enjoying teaching the class:
*My kids get so excited about having the class with their friends
*They get to practice doing the class with me, reading the books and singing the songs throughout the week.
*I get to do one of my favorite things- teach!

Challenges:
*Getting people to commit with busy schedules
*Trying to figure out class times and what ages I should have in classes.

Here is what we did today:
Song: Buenos Dias by Jose-Luis Orozco

Game: Como te llamas? We patted our laps 2 times, clapped our hands 2 times and repeated again and again to keep in rhythm. We would say to the beat Como te llamas tu? and each child would say Yo me Llamo... (or I would sing it with them).

Puppet: The puppet comes out and asks everyone their names. I have been making some interesting voices lately :)

Song: Cabeza, cara hombros pies (I love this version because there are only 4 parts of the body they need to know.) We sang this song about 4 times. Each time the kids picked a card that would have a different way to sing it (sad, happy, loud, soft) Repetition is so important and kids really love it (even if it gets old for adults). By the end, the kids that didn't speak Spanish could sing the song. Here's the recording.

Fingerplay: De la cabeza a los pies from Ana Lomba

Activity: Senor papa no tiene una cara. Each child got something out of the bag for Mr. Potato Head (eyes, nose, etc.)

Activity: Cuantos narizes hay? We counted how many noses of children there were in the room. I took out some magnetic numbers and put them on a little white/magnetic board with a picture of the noses. We did the same with eyes, ears and mouths :)

Song: Baila, Baila con tu cuerpo by Lango Kids They make a CD, but you have to buy it through mail with one of their teachers.

Book: De La Cabeza a Los Pies por Eric Carle

Craft: We made faces with English muffin with peanut butter. Raisins for eyes, banana slice for nose, apple slice for mouth, half grapes for ears and licorice for hair :) The result: una carita de mono

Let me know if you find this useful! You can do this at home with just your own kids!