This week was dedicated to simple sentence building and word recognition in Spanish. We have been practicing the alphabet and writing simple sentences like “me gusta” and “me duele”. For example, we played the sentence writing game where I had words written on several cards and the child was asked to arrange them correctly. 
The child was given both a fruit and a card with a body part, then asked to build two different sentences using the correct verb and tense.

(Spanish grammar lesson for my parents)
As I had talked about in my last blog, the verb doler, (to hurt), reflects the object instead of the person. Gustar (to like) functions in the same way.
In English we say, I like the strawberry.
In Spanish we say, Me gusta la fresa.
If it is plural, the verb has to relate to object. 
I like the strawberries= Me gustan las fresas.

We did activites that related to “me gusta” like play do, drawings, puppet time, goldfish & journal writing. Another exercise was to write out letters on little squares, scramble them, then rearrange the letters to spell words. This was a bigger project, but I thought it to be beneficial. It is also an activity that you can do with your child at home. You have a simple phrase in Spanish. They cut out little squares, write one letter for each square, then arrange the squares to form a sentence. Easy breezy.

I am happy with the progress of the children, and even more amazed by how bright they are, how easily they pick things up.

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading.