Hello parents!

I am posting the first of a few Spanish related websites you can use at home, if your child is allowed time on a computer:

1. http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/mimundo/default.htm This website has vocabulary games with a character named Carlos. Click on the world to enter. A window will open with the boy introducing himself and then several links to vocabulary in relation to different things (farm, gym, etc). Click on any of these to play with that vocabulary. This page might be harder for the little ones, who might need assistance to navigate and/or work through the vocabulary. The next page has three options:

- Pasatiempos, vocabulary games. Click on the ear to hear instructions. The kids will have to click on whatever is being said to them. For example, in the first link (¡Hola, Soy Carlos! the kids will hear about personal introductions. The game is bingo. The kids will click on the ear to hear who is introducing him/herself and click on the right box. The system will tell you if the answer is correct or not).

- Taller, is not a game, but a link to a page in which the kids can make their club card with personal information.

- Mochila de palabras, this page will take you to a review of the vocabulary seen. After clicking on the items you will hear the words. You can use this by having your child say the words or describe the picture before hearing it or repeating it afterward.

To navigate the page, on the bottom you will see different icons. The ones you will are, from left to right: (world) index, (left arrow) back, (right arrow) forward.

Also, for iPhone users, Alice has freed a duck hunt application in Spanish for kids. You can check the link here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duck-hunt-pato-caza-espanol/id368577257?mt=8

I will post more websites soon. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions!

Catalina.