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My First TPT product! - Spanish Compound Words Center

Wohoo! I have something on Teachers Pay Teachers! It's free, so check it out!

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The first thing is a center for Spanish compound words or palabras compuestas. I found this in our standards last year and it was hard to find resources :P Here is also a good list for compound words in Spanish, it's where I got some ideas for the center activity. To use as a center activity, just put the pages with blank spaces in a sheet protector or laminate them, then students can use over and over again with whiteboard markers.

I'll be putting up things I've already made for Dual Language (lots of things I've translated).

Enjoy!

Beach Learning Activities



This summer I'm teaching a small summer camp at my school for 2 weeks. It's only mornings, so we mostly cover Reading/Writing and Math, and try to integrate some Science/Social Studies too. And it's Beach themed!

Although I teach this summer camp all in English, and my classroom during the year is Spanish/English, I can still use many of these resources during the year because I always teach Math in English (See: Gomez & Gomez Dual Language Model).

Some sweet (FREE!) stuff I found on Pinterest/Teachers Pay Teachers:

• Beach Math & Literacy Activities
• Beach Roll & Cover Addition Game
• Base Ten Beach Game
• Beach Addition - Write the Room

We're also using:

• Sight word beach ball (seen above) - they can throw it to themselves or a friend and read both of the words that their pointer fingers hit
• Beach ball with numbers anywhere from 1 - 500, then whichever number your left hand hits, you make that number with base 10 blocks. Play with a partner and see who can make their number the fastest.
• Flip Flop Slap - get a new pair of flip flops and write High Frequency words on notecards. Lay out the notecards on the floor and have 2 kids play (one with each flip flop). They can either yell out a word and their partner has to slap it, or you yell out words and the student that slaps it first wins the card.

For future reference - If you want to follow me on Pinterest I'm at: http://pinterest.com/ckloeck1110/

Introduction

Hello!

Here I would like to introduce myself for future blog readers :) I am now officially an educator, having finished my first year teaching dual language in my own classroom. The year before that, I was a substitute teacher in the north suburbs of Chicago (Glenview and Zion to be exact), working mostly in bilingual elementary school classrooms. I moved to Austin, Texas just over a year ago to join Texas Teaching Fellows, an alternative certification program, to get my teaching certification. Then, being bilingual and all, I was lucky to find a job teaching 1st grade dual language in Round Rock (just north of Austin).

I absolutely love first grade, the Gomez & Gomez Dual Language model, and my school and teammates who have helped me through an intense first year. Now I want to be able to share the work that I have done (and will do!) with the world. I feel that my second year might give me more time to blog (knock on wood) than my first year did, and I also have a lot more resources to share once I have tested them out and/or translated things.

I hope you enjoy my blog, and please feel free to contact me with any questions at all, or just to say hi!
(or if you're a teacher and your class wants to Skype with us! I did that many time's last year and it's a great way to connect/share work/learn new things/etc.)

Thanks!

-Carolyn