Day 56 - AP Students Teach at Sprouts - BHS World Language Department

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Yesterday, Profe DeSousa and Sra. Dacey’s AP Spanish class visited the Sprouts preschool classroom to teach the children a Spanish lesson.  The preschoolers were excited to interact with the big high school kids during the engaging Spanish activities that the AP Spanish students had prepared for them.  For example, the students participated in a Mr. Potato Head activity in order to learn various vocabulary words in Spanish, including la cabeza, los labios, las orejas, los ojos, la nariz, etc.  Afterwards, the students moved on to the next activity which included learning los números and los colores en español.  The preschoolers especially enjoyed the colors and numbers station because they used Skittles candy to identify the colors of the rainbow in Spanish.  Lastly, the students ended with a task that highlighted the things that they are grateful for in life (e.g. la familia, la comida, los amigos, etc.).  Along with the help of the big kids, the preschoolers colored pictures, practiced pronunciation of vocabulary words, sang songs, and, most importantly, had fun while learning en español.

Day 121 - BHS Spanish Students Visit Sprouts - BHS World Languages Blog

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BHS AP Spanish students traveled to Burlington’s Sprouts preschool classroom located at Francis Wyman Elementary School last week to teach Spanish.  Our advanced Spanish learners shared their language knowledge, such as colors, numbers and animal vocabulary en español.  They began their visit with a song activity, including phrases like hola, buenos días, cómo estás, muy bien y tú and soy, followed by a story time read aloud featuring the classic book Oso pardo, oso pardo ¿qué ves allí? (Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see?) in Spanish.  It was a excellent book selection since the Sprouts preschool curriculum recently included an exploration of works by author Eric Carle.  Following story time, students participated in an art project where they colored in the animals from the story, cut out their pictures and attached them to craft sticks.  Afterwards, they returned to circle time to read the book again while pronouncing the Spanish words for the animals and colors at the same time they held up the appropriate stick that matched the animal being described.

The BHS AP Spanish students loved story time, however they especially enjoyed interacting with the preschoolers while speaking to them in Spanish.  Señora Dacey and her students wish to thank Ms. Jenn, Ms. Taryn, Ms. Victoria and Ms. Dianne for welcoming the “big kids” at Sprouts.