Dar gracias – Thanksgiving activities in Spanish
Monday, November 19th, 2012This year I wanted to do different activities in our Spanish Classes, tired of same’ol. I wanted to surprise and make our Turkey classes more than coloring pages with color by numbers we have been doing for years. I wanted children as early as 14m to see the meaning of Thanksgiving, even if it was to say Gracias mommy, at the end of a mommy and me class! I believe we accomplished it, hope the children left our classes as happy as I was!
I would like to highlight some activities, since we used 24 different worksheets, 8 songs and more than 20 activities for many different age and proficiency levels.
Pin a Part on the Turkey
We put a new twist and blew up a turkey and cut pieces, the kids had with eyes closed, put the parts on the turkey. They has previously learned:
cabeza, pico, cola, pies, alas
Cabeza – head
Pico – Beak
Cola – tail
Pies – feet
Alas – wings
Color and Cut
We had a Turkey coloring page and they needed to cut and put the turkey back together and tell me the parts.
Turkey doesn’t say Gobble Gobble
Turkey says gluglú in Spanish, the kids laugh and love it! Their Thanksgiving just got a whole new twist!
Flashcards
We learned flashcards with turkey – pavo, pelegrino- pelegrine, pumpkin- calabaza and others and they held the cards later and the other child would have to give the one holding it, hints, so they one holding would guess it, they did such a great job!
Turkey Dance
We dance cinco pavitos bailan en la clase, uno salió, quedanse 4, 4 pavitos bailan en la clase, uno salió, quedanse 3…..when we end, all the pavitos get together again, they loved it!
Match word and pic
We used a worksheet with vocabulary previously learned and matching with words for children ages 7 and older
Video I really like:
