Become a more confident language teacher.
I am a very bossy person by nature, and unfortunately I didn’t realize it until right after I graduated from high school. By the grace of God, I’ve learned how to tame my nasty natural instincts…although it’s not always easy! Being married helps 🙂 I think that this is why the game that I’m about…
Read MoreWell I have been a pretty lame blogger lately, but I have a good excuse–I’m pregnant! With my 2yo and my 9mo, I’ve been spending nap time actually napping instead of blogging…but can you blame me?? I’m out of my first trimester, now, though, so I’m going to try to put my newly restored energy…
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I used a Jigsaw Puzzle (“an impossible puzzle”) to review first quarter vocabulary with my students. (They got through El amigo simpático–if you are following my curriculum map, use this puzzle after you’ve finished that story to ensure that your students know all of the terms. Click here to download the puzzle–free!
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One thing that Michele Whaley has taught me is to look to ALL content areas for inspiration. SIXES is a game that I learned from a math teacher, and it translates easily into a language classroom (get it? translates? ;-)). Overview of Sixes In Sixes, students are racing against peers in their group to be…
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Get your students’ attention with the name of this quick version of BINGO! OVERVIEW: Turn a reading into a competitive game with this twist on traditional BINGO. I learned this activity from Kristin Duncan, who re-posted it on her blog after reading a post by Andrea (surname?) on the MoreTPRS listserv in March 2013. If…
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While taking advantage of Ellis’ after-church nap to catch up on the blogs that I follow, I read this post from Cynthia Hitz (@sonrisadelcampo). While Cynthia originally used the activity to recall a story that she co-created with her language students, you can use it to collaboratively recall any content with students in any subject…
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Speaking of games, I realized that I’ve never posted my classes’ all-time favorite: El bebé malo (bad baby), introduced to me by Bryce Hedstrom (well, his website anyway!). Start with a tiny object! Find a small object to hide. In my class, we alway hide the smallest doll in my Russian Nesting Doll set: it’s…
Read MoreToday, we played games at the end of each of my classes. Games that had nothing to do with what we were studying. Games that didn’t challenge my students at all. Games that were in Spanish, but games that didn’t help them learn anything new. And you know what? It was fun. Right now, I’m asking…
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