Lana Privitera is the proud Mom of a fun-loving, bilingual "chatterboy" that likes to spice his speeches in English with long-winded Spanish words. Her goal for 2008 is to pack also some French and Italian in his very expandable 3.5 year old brain. Lana still qualifies as a SAHM but uses her "spare" time working as a watercolor artist and Spanish/art teacher.
This morning, while I was in my “Thinking Pod” (aka the shower), I came up with a
great project for the next couple days: making Spanish syllable cubes out of
homemade playdough.
Nickey and I will spend some time today making a bunch of . inch size cubes and
then, in a couple days ‐when they are dry‐ we’re going to write different Spanish
syllables in each one of their sides. I plan to use them to teach Nickey to pair
syllables to form simple words.
Don’t give me credit for the whole idea, though. Yesterday I saw a somewhat
expensive ‐and small‐ set of foam cubes for sale in the Internet and I simply decided
that it could be more fun ‐and cheaper‐ to make our own at home.
I think it’s going to be a wonderful teaching tool!
And talking about wonderful, please check out one or two of my adorable “Pocoyo”
episodes in YouTube. He’s absolutely adorable! You can also find him in other
languages besides Spanish.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QYNXXgwjWgY&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2QFfzI2tJDg&feature=related