Hola a todos! Hello everyone!
I recently attended a Conference for Language Teachers from all over Sydney.
These meetings are always fun and full of stories of successes in the classroom.
I was lucky enough to be amongst wonderful Language teachers from many independent schools where we shared the ways our students interact and learn the best.
Spanish at St Gregory’s Junior School stood out that day. I was able to share and demonstrate the way I have been able to obtain the very best from our students through song, play, the use of picture books, and storytelling.
Not just stories like familiar Fairy Tales, but stories of cultural backgrounds, stories about immigration and how we all have family stories that have made us who we are.
This Term, our Spanish classes have focused on storytelling.
We have looked at friendship - amistades, generosity - generosidad, family - familia and school life – la vida en el colegio.
Learning to express our own needs and to be able to identify the needs of characters in bilingual books has been quite fun.
We have created a super wall of successes and work in progress pieces.
From drawings of rainbow fish, maps of our local shops in Gregory Hills (labelled in Spanish of course) to portraits of grandmothers and friends with Spanish personality traits. has enabled children and teachers to see the variety of work and fun we get up to in class.
I encourage you to sing Spanish songs, watch Spanish movies or listen to your child’s stories about what they did and heard Mrs Grados say on their Spanish day.
Learning a new language can be a lot of fun if those around you get into the fun also.
Mrs Paula Grados