This Week we are so happy to highlight a new location for our Summer Camps! Turnersville is home of our Summer Camp at Monkey Business!
We will be blending our scavenger hunt and games around the location and children will have the opportunity to bounce at the end of the camp! All using our foreign language funcamp curriculum! If you are still undecided about signing up your child, please keep in mind this is a great option for younger children, as they will enjoy a half day camp and not be overwhelmed by a full day of activities!
If this is your child’s first camp, they are in for a treat! We will:
Look for hidden treasures
Camp in a dessert island
Enjoy a birthday bash with water fun
Plant and take care of summer flowers and vegetables and fruits
Travel to Puerto Rico! Enjoying a fun cultural journey!
Children will enjoy 15min of complimentary bounce time at the end of the camp!
Rate is $ 150.00 a week, a snack is included and crafts, books, games, so much more in our super fun camp!
It’s that time of year and you are thinking, how can I sneak in some bilingual toys and make my child enjoy it and help him/her learn a foreign language at the same time???
Well, I looked around and will share some of my favorites!
Books:
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other book stores have a whole section of Spanish, French, Chinese or bilingual versions of classics like Dr. Seuss and others, so if you like adding books to your child’s list, this is a favorite way to share great moments and bring some bilingual fun to your child’s bed time or reading time!
I did not find Christmas Classics in foreign languages available in bookstores, trust me, I looked for it, but I believe you should look at your child’s preferences and classic stories. I wanted to share my activity book, which combines a cd which reads the story in both languages and suggestions on activities in each page!
Many other options are out there like Dora™, Curious George™, and Other famous characters books!
You can also download them in your tablet or computer and have a paperless version of them or do a surprise dowload to your child’s tablet! My son loves comic books and character books, I have found some of his favorites in Portuguese and will download them into his tablet before Christmas!
Itunes has so many options!
Music
It’s always a great way to connect with children! The holidays bring the magic of showing children favorite tunes in different languages!
I have this cd and we always play it on weekends and when we are decorating the tree!
I have a Brazilian Cd with songs in Portuguese with the character Monica, a famous comic book character in Brazil, but I could not find the link to share, I have found this one, not sure why it so hard to find music in Portuguese when you are here in the US! Sharing the songs and culture like the fact that South American countries don’t have stockings but shoes where Santa brings the toys and other traditions I will be sharing in a later post, will bring your child to a magic new world where America traditions are added to the new ones! Priceless!
Basically any movie you purchase nowadays, has the Spanish and French options, so your child can watch the movie in a foreign language. I would recommend showing them the movie in English first, unless they are totally fluent in the second language. You would be surprised how children sit down and watch the elf, Christmas Carol and Mr Magoo in Spanish and love it! Brazil has a different zone for movies, so I purchase my dvds there when I go or in the sendex.net store and load to my laptop as they will not play on my blueray/dvd player!
Toys
Dora, Elmo, Diego, so many toys are now offered with bilingual versions, Dora has a new gymnastics doll which sings in Spanish! So cute!
Clothes
I ordered a shirt on vista print, it is green, long sleeve and it says Feliz Natal! Every year we have a tradicion to wake up in new jammies on Christmas morning and I ordered this shirt for $ 15,00 with the printing in red and will buy the pj bottoms and surprise my son with it! You can also place granparents pics and saying in a foreign language if your in laws or parents are from a foreign country or make the shirt your child/children’s pic in it, place the Merry Christmas in their native language and ship as a Christmas gift! Shipping of a shirt to a country like Brazil is only $ 4,50!
After all, it’s all about bringing the holiday cheer to your children, making the foreign language, a part of it!
We are proud to announce two new satellite class locations!
Moorestown
Open House
Come and join our fun and super cool open house at Kids’ MusicRound Moorestown,330 Young Ave, Moorestown, NJ.
When: Sep 29th
Time: 11:45- 12:45
We will be serving light refreshments, sharing benefits of introducing foreign languages early on and enjoying a super fun demo class and wait, a special guest will be coming to greet us! Guess who?
Free events, all siblings are welcome!
Classes start Oct 18th, 11:00am Mommy and Me class where children and parents will play, sing and enjoy our Spanish Station™ Fun! For ages 14m-36m. Rates are just $ 15.00 per class!
Turnersville
Open House
Come and join our fun and super cool open house at Monkey Town, Turnersville,Whitman Plaza, Turnersville
When: Oct 3rd
Time: 10:30 – 11:30am
We will be serving light refreshments, sharing benefits of introducing foreign languages early on and enjoying a super fun demo class and wait, a special guest will be coming to greet us! Guess who?
Classes start Oct 17th, 10:30am, ages 3-5 years old
Rates start at $ 15.00 per class
We will be sharing our great fall topics, basic themes, music, games and art where Spanish is a synonym of FUN!!! Children will receive a complimentary play time, being able to play on the moon bounces and other attractions after our event!
Come and sign up at the open house and save $25.00 on the enrollment fee!
This week some of our classes had the theme Ropas, we started by learning basic vocabulary:
Vestido – dressPantalones – pants
Shortes/bermudas – shorts
Falda – skirt
Camisa – shirt
Blusa – blouse
Zapatos – shoes
Sandalias – sandals
We then worked on drawing clothes for our ninos y ninas:
The results were amazing and they took home versions which could be altered to review other clothing vocabulary.
Some of the samples below were done by 3/4 year olds!
We played a hide and seek game with clothing items where they won a point if they shouted the name of the item. Encontre la camisa!
We looked at two pictures of a boy and a girl at the beach and talked about what they were wearing. Me gusta el sombrero, no me gustan las sandalias…..
We watched el negro cirilo pro Guia Infantil:
We ended the class looking at what we were wearing and talking about it!
Hope you enjoyed our class! Please let us know! if you wish to download a free coloring page, please click here!
This past week, we brought a very interesting approach to teaching furniture vocabulary in Spanish.
Children talked about their favorite rooms in their house, using the words learned, they also played domino and go fish with our flashcards.
They played hit or miss with a ball around the room, hitting the pictures that they could identify and watched a great video of the bear in the big blue house, welcoming them to his house!
Our coloring page was a furniture piece in different classes, coloring pages, flashcards and domino are available for sale, please contact us for sample!
I wanted to change the way we celebrated Mother’s day this year, so my team started spinning wheels and we came up with a super fun class! Hope you can use some of these activities in your classroom or at home!
We start with matching game, cards printed with family member’s pic and name in Spanish.Then we use similar cards to place in a family tree and each student places cards which correspond to their families. Other copies of the cards are placed on children’s back and they pass the ball, when music stops, they need to tell who the family member that student has on their back, who they are? Quien soy yo??? The others answer eres….
We colored a mother’s day page which I am placing here as a free gift to all moms and teachers who follow our blog.
We watched a great video and the older ones had to tell us what family members were missing.
Looking for new activities to do using the Spring theme, it came to me to use a mural as a backdrop after we teach the new vocabulary or verbs associated to vocabulary learned in previous years by children who have been with us for a longer period of time!
We gave them the vocabulary by talking about season changes and:
Memory Cards with words – Primavera- Spring, Nube – Cloud, Lluvia- rain, Cesped- grass, Flor- flower, Arbol- tree, Mariposa- butterfly.
We also used the book Pedro Conejito to talk about spring words
We gave them stickers and asked them to draw on our wall and table mural, depending on age, they loved it! Some of the pictures are shown here!
Try and let us know how it was, we would love to share your picture!
Today we started from ages 14m-9 year old students and I wanted to share some of the amazing results! Check it out!
Suffering with cabin fever? Oh no! I wanted to share some of the activities we are currently using in the classroom with you to help you beat the winter and bring the fun inside your classroom or home!The first topic I wanted to share with you is the house!
We share the basic house vocab:
House – Casa Cuarto- bedroom Sala – living room Cocina – kitchen Baño – bathroom
Table – mesa Chair- silla Sofa – sofá Bed – cama
We used flashcards to show the vocabulary, made into a memory game! Children all ages love memory games!
La casa, la casa, la casa tiene un piso, un piso, un piso, la casa tiene un piso
La casa, la casa, la casa tiene una puerta, una puerta, una puerta, la casa tiene una puerta
que abre y cierra, que abre y cierra, la casa tiene una puerta
La casa, la casa, la casa tiene una ventana, ventana, ventana, la casa tiene una ventana
La casa, la casa, la casa tiene un techo, un techo, un techo, la casa tiene un techo
Casa Tag- they will tag the part of the house, after you say the name, I give rewards for each correct answer.
Doll House Fun – even the boys have fun, because I brought some legos and we populated the house, they needed to place the doll or lego in a room and tell me the name of the room! Sooo much fun!
Legos were also used to build the favorite room of the house. Below are some pics of the amazing job they did!
We add the winter vocabulary and placed cotton and fake rain the “house” coloring page we used!
One of the students who is 6 worked on so many details in the room, it looked like an architect did it! Children never cease to amaze me!
Hope you enjoyed our activities and that you will use them and share your experience here on our blog!
Many parents ask me, is there Halloween in Spanish, well the majority of Spanish speaking countries do not have Halloween as it known in the US. They have Dia de Los Muertos which is a party and celebration to pay respects to the dead and celebrate death!
Spanish and Foreign Language teachers translate materials this time of the year to bring a little bit of Halloween to their classes!
I decided to share some of the words we used this week and let you know we have sets of flashcards and worksheets available for purchase on the website.
Spanish
Bruja – witch
Calabaza – pumpkin
Calavera- Esqueleton
Murcielago – bat
Fantasma – ghost
Bruxa – witch
abobora – pumpkin
Caveira- Esqueleton
Morcego – bat
Fantasma – ghost
Suggestion on activities: bring real pumpkins, place on the floor and tell the children they will go pumpkin picking and they need to count the pumpkins. They can paint pumpkins and tell the colors. You can use our memory cards to play memory game or throw mini pumpkin erasers on cards on the floor and say the word where they fall. We bought large pumpkins and they had to throw balls on pumpkins and say the color before they hit the pumpkins.
Videos on youtube, like Halloween para peques and others.
Happy Halloween – Feliz Dia de Las Brujas, Feliz Dia das bruxas
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