Spanish Teachers on TPT Giveaway!

Hop to Win! $100 and $20 TpT credit giveaway!

Spanish teachers on TpT have teamed up to offer you a fun & fabulous giveaway as our way of saying THANK YOU to our followers!

We have 2 thank you prizes for our followers:

-         $100 TpT gift card

-         $20 TpT gift card

What to do:

1.    Visit MY STORE to start hopping! ~ We love followers!  ;)

2.    Write down the Secret Letter hidden in the banner of my store.

3.    Click on the BANNER of each store to hop to the next store! Collect the secret letters hidden in each banner!

4.    Unscramble the letters to reveal the Secret Message.

5.    Head to back to MY BLOG and enter the Secret Message into the Giveaway!

Here’s what you’re looking for in my store:

Once you have all of the letters, unscramble them to reveal the secret message!  Come back and enter the secret message in the giveaway widget here:

a Rafflecopter giveaway The following fun & fabulous Spanish sellers are participating in the blog hop! You can also visit each store by clicking on the image of their store below!

1. Monarca Language
2. Fun Monkey Bars
3. Brinca Into Bilingual
4. MM Bilingual
5. Mundo de Pepita
6. Fun for Spanish Teachers
7. Profe Emily
8. Lectura Para Ninos
9. Educando Einsteins
10. Silvia Schavz
11. Speech is Beautiful
12. Sra Casado

Teacher Appreciation Week!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

I thank all of you wonderful teachers for doing what you do!  In appreciation, here is a freebie that I just created for you!  It will turn into another homework book with lots of fun activities to do in the classroom and at home!  I hope you enjoy!

Also, in appreciation, my store will be 20% off Tuesday through Friday for Teacher appreciation week!

Click on the pictures below to take you to your freebie!!!

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March Blog Hop

Hello Everyone!

I cannot believe how fast February has flown by!  My students are eager beavers to learn and are soaking up everything I throw at them.  The sun has come out here and looks like SPRING is so ready to shine!

Here is one thing that we're working on now:  Composing and Decomposing numbers!  I found this wonderful pin from Math Coach's Corner and just love the learning happening from this activity.

I created a recording sheet for the students to go along with this fun math center!  The kids loved it and it helped them to further understand their math skills. If you click on the page below, it will take you to this free download!  I hope you enjoy!

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February Bilingual Blog Hop

Hello everyone!  Happy February!  I can't wait to show you what my kiddos are doing right now.  I can't believe all but 2 are reading!  I'm so excited!  And... we're in the beginning stages of writing as well!  Below are examples of how my kids are writing. I keep telling my kids, if you can segment, you can write!  Just write the sounds you know.  The two that are really struggling right now are my new kids that have just moved in, but they will catch on soon enough.  With a little extra practice, they will get there too!  I am just so proud of them.  

I also want to note, that everyday before I let my kids go off and do a free write, I model a lesson.  I choose a drawing lesson from my "DRAWING TUB" and show them how to do the step by step picture. After I have my drawing, I try to get ideas from the kids of what I can write.  Usually, they help me come up with what to say.  I model for them how to segment the word and write all of the letters together with spaces between the words.  Also... I remind them that everyone is going to write their own story and not going to write MY story.  I also allow them to draw without the drawing lessons if they choose to do so.  I tell them, no coloring until they have finished their stories.  

Anyhow... here is one of my kiddos!  She wrote this all on her own without help. It says:

"Mi mama toma el café y me dará."  She was really disappointed that she didn't have a chance to finish, but I told her she could finish it on another day. 

Yo tengo un sol y mi sol tiene palos.  Mi sol tiene palos.  She didn't get a chance to finish either, but this is just the start to a whole new world for these kiddos and their writing.  

Also... NOT all of my kids are writing this way.  These are my top two kids.  My lower performing kids are still stringing letters together and forgetting to put spaces.  They are getting their sounds though, so that is a start for them.  Then... I have those who are putting too many spaces between words, but are getting their sounds.  We have a huge range of kiddos and their writing.  

Below is a sampling of what I'm doing in reading!  Most of my kiddos are reading on their own and these students give them a great way to practice blending simple words that we have been practicing from our phonics centers - beginning level.  
While the kids are working independently, I can pull my kiddos who need extra help blending syllables to form words.  The kids really like these and they follow a great routine, so there is no need to explain how to do these.  There are 5 different activities to do with each level!   
1)  Read the word and write the word below the picture!  
2)  Word search, which helps the child where a word starts and finishes!
3)  Unscramble the word
4)  Read the word and write it in the appropriate boxes.  This helps the students write their letters small and at the correct height.  It was hard at first, but they really are getting the hang of it!
5)  Cut the pictures out and paste the picture with the picture with the correct word.   
Click on the pictures below is a sampling from the complete book.  You can get the complete book here!   

I hope you all have a great February!!!

Take care,

Leah

 

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Happy New Year Linky - Bilingual Kinder

Hello friends!  I hope you all had a merry Christmas!!  I hope you all have a Wonderful 2016!  I'm hoping for so much this year for myself, friends and family!  I am loving my mini vacation with my family, but at the same time, I'm missing my students!  I can't wait to see them and get back into routines and see progress happen at the same time!

Here is one of the activities that I will be doing with my students next week!  We will be creating a SNOWMAN either by cutting out our own circles or using the circle punch!

Art Learning Target:

• Create a Snowman by using a "Tool" to create circles.  
• Learn the word OVERLAPPING and demonstrate it's meaning through art! 
• Create additional clothing for the snowman using a variety of materials provided: glitter, colored construction paper, google eyes, etc.

 Reading/Writing Learning Targets:

• Say & Write the beginning sound, syllable or word below each picture

Click the picture below for your freebie!  Have a great 2016!

Happy New year! 

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I Teach Bilingual December Link up

Hello everyone!  I'm so excited about December and doing crafts with my students.  December is an emotional time of year for my families and I love working on building memories.  I hope you enjoy this as well.  So many crafts to do related to the common core.

Here is one of the fun Christmas Tree crafts that I found on Pinterest!  The picture to the left is one of my favorites from colorsofmyday.wordpress.com!  The picture on the right is what we started creating today for one of our math centers.  Our learning target was to design a tree using triangles and a rectangle.  They were to decorate their trees with different types of art materials.  They are also to describe the triangle and rectangle and tell the difference between the two.  Tomorrow they will use a brush technique to dob snow all over their paper using white paint.  If you click on the picture, it will take you to my Pinterest page full of Christmas Crafts activities you can do with your students during this wonderful season. 

Here is the final version with snow on them!  :-) I love how they turned out.  

The kids really enjoyed creating these trees!

Another math learning center came from one of my products:  Decentas y unidades.  Here the students are using shapes to create a design.  We are focusing on the number 10 this week, so they can only use 10 geometric shapes.  This was hard for some as they really wanted to add more shapes to "FINISH" their pictures.  I told them that they can only use 10 shapes!  Next week they would create another design using 11 shapes.  On the back side of their page they have to show 3 other ways to create "10."  Writing numbers 1-10, writing equations that equal 10, and then gluing a popscicle stick down and gluing 10 beans to their stick.  It was a hit and the kids really took their time. 


And Tis the Season to give... here is a link to all of my Freebies on my TPT page!  :-)  Merry Christmas everyone!  I hope you all have a wonderful and joyous season!

FOREVER FREEBIES from my TPT Store! :-)

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Fall~Winter Blog Hop 2015

Hello everyone!  It's been awhile! 
Welcome to the FALL~Winter Blog HOP!  

Scroll through the page and ENJOY!  

It's that time of year when we are thinking of giving thanks to our teacher colleagues and friends.  We're also on a budget and saving money for Christmas shopping.  I've created a Pinterest page full of ideas that will help you create a gift for your peers and teachers of your own kiddos.  I hope you enjoy! :-)  Click on the picture below for all the fun and creative ideas. 
 

Below there will be 4 of my best sellsers 30% off!  You can click on the product and it will take you directly to the item on sale.  At the Bottom of this hop, has all the sites to the Spanish teachers offering their sales!  Check it out!  You can also go to TPT and type in the search bar:  #fallwinterspanishsale and all the products in the sale will pop up!

 

Here are 4 of the 5 Spanish Phonics Centers that I have in my store.  

All are regularly $12 each but are on sale today for $8.40 
These are 4 of my best sellers! :-)  So much fun and my students love them!!

       

Click on this GIVEAWAY TAB AND YOU 

WILL GET A LINK TO 

ALL OF THE FREEBIES IN MY TPT STORE!  ENJOY!

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