Poesía en el salón de clases

Una de mis partes favoritas del día (y de mis alumnos también) es el bloque de poesía. Es un tiempo divertido en el que los niños pueden practicar y repasar muchas habilidades y reforzar las que no han desarrollado.

Por cuestión de tiempo, en mi salón dual (dual language) solamente tenemos el bloque de poesía 3 veces a la semana: lunes, miércoles y viernes. Te daré suficientes ideas para utilizar la rutina todos los días si es que así lo eliges. Mi rutina de poesía no dura más de 15 minutos. Incluso algunos días es menos de 10 minutos. Es un bloque breve pero tiene un impacto grande en el aprendizaje de mis alumnos.

Los lunes comenzamos nuestra rutina con un poema nuevo. Mis estudiantes se sientan en un círculo para escucharme leer el poema de la semana. Es importante para mí que ellos puedan crear imágenes mentales para desarrollar comprensión. Es por eso que estos poemas no están ilustrados. Los estudiantes tienen que escuchar el poema y crear su propia imagen mental.
Después de leer el poema generalmente hago algunas preguntas de comprensión.
Cuando me aseguro de que todos mis alumnos han entendido el poema, leemos el poema de nuevo pero esta vez ellos repiten después de mí.
También discutimos nuestra palabra monstruo (palabra de uso frecuente) que utilizaremos con este poema.
Me gusta escribir el poema nuevo en tiras de papel para poder leerlo y que mis niños me ayuden a marcar cada palabra, letra, punto, etc...

Puedes encontrar las tiras de papel que utilizo aquí y la cinta adhesiva de colores aquí.

Los miércoles volvemos a leer nuestro poema para desarrollar fluidez. Después de leerlo varias veces, cada estudiante recibe su propia copia del poema. Volvemos a leer asegurándonos de apuntar a cada palabra con nuestro dedo. 
Los estudiantes regresan a sus mesas para marcar lo mismo que marcamos en nuestro poema grande el lunes. Por ejemplo, si el lunes nos enfocamos en mayúsculas y puntos, ellos van a encontrar mayúsculas y puntos en su propio poema y lo marcan del mismo color de la cinta adhesiva que utilizamos. 
También los miércoles mis alumnos pegan su poema en su cuaderno de poesía.

El último día de nuestra rutina de poesía es el que más les gusta a mis estudiantes por que por fin podrán crear un dibujo para el poema. Pero claro, antes volvemos a leer el poema. Este es el día que nos enfocamos un poco más en nuestra palabra monstruo. 

Si eres lo suficiente afortunado(a) y puedes incorporar el bloque de poesía todos los días de la semana, ¡hay muchas otras formas que puedes utilizar poemas en tu salón!
Por ejemplo: leer el poema a un compañero, cantar el poema, leer el poema a un muñeco de peluche, encontrar y colorear la letra de la semana, encontrar sustantivos, encontrar verbos, escribir otra línea al poema, actuar el poema. 

Puedes encontrar los poemas aquí. 

¿Tienes más preguntas? No olvides que puedes contactarme en mi página TPT, en Instagram o Facebook! 
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Letter Oo

Back to school is just around the corner for me which means prep, prep and more prep! It's a lot of work but it's one of my favorite times of the year. Sparkling clean classrooms, brand new borders, fresh laminating aaaah!! But when your room is ready for those little ones to come in you can't forget to be ready with quality work as well, which is exactly what I've been working on this week. I've been preparing all the activities and planning my lessons for the first weeks of school.

During the second (or third) week of school I will be introducing my little ones to the vowels. I know these activities will be fun and engaging and I'm super excited to use them one more time with a new group of kids!

Let me show you what I've prepped for so far...

I like having a mini word wall (separate from the one we use for sight words) to focus on the letter we are learning. I've noticed how much more vocabulary my kids learn. I change it every week and my kids love referring back to it!

I always make sure my students have plenty of opportunities to learn how to trace and write each letter. 

Just as important as tracing letters correctly, I give the kids plenty of activities to recognize the beginning sounds. I usually use this coloring activity at the beginning when I first introduce the letter since it's quick and easy. 

One of my students favorite activities is the mini books we do every week. I have two different versions and I pick a different one every week depending on how much time (and copies/paper) I have for the week.

And sometimes we do an extra activity on Fridays just for fun! This is when I really push my students to get creative!

You can find these activities HERE.

Letra Oo

I hope your planning and prep is going great!! 

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Back to the BasicsI

I remember my first year teaching, it still comes back and hunts me sometimes. I was teaching a third grade bilingual class. When students came in, I was so nervous about getting them started that I forgot they "might" not speak any English. I kept going on and on and on about procedures, rules and expectations. Everyone was quiet...all 22 of them. I kept thinking to myself they were the most wonderful students I could ever ask for (and they were) how awesome was it that my students are paying such close attention to me!! Until one little girl raised her hand and asked (in Spanish): Could you please repeat everything you just said but in Spanish? 

Source: The Cornerstone

BAM! I felt horrible! These kids weren't fluent in the language and there I was ASSUMING they understood everything I had just said. So of course, I quickly adjusted and repeated every single thing. 

Assuming our kids know a certain skill or have a particular habit because "they should have learned it in the previous year" is one of the WORST MISTAKES we can do as teachers. 

It was very unfortunate to realize that even though many of these kids weren't newcomers they still needed instruction as if they were. 

If you ever find yourself in the same situation I was in just keep in mind that the best you could possibly do for your kiddos if to GO BACK TO THE BASICS!

For me that meant teaching the parts of the body, names of animals, farm animals. I even taught some of them how to say: Hello! My name is ________. I vividly remember playing a video and singing  just like a kindergartener teacher: head, shoulders, knees and toes, KNEES AND TOES!  

Was it ideal? NO. Was it something I was supposed to be teaching in third grade? NO. I so wish they would have had all that vocabulary before getting to third grade but they didn't. Someone had to teach it. I was definitely not going to let those kids go on to the next grade without having that basic vocabulary. 

Here's some ideas of basic vocabulary/resources your bilingual students might need: 

If you ever find that your students haven't learned a skill that was meant to be learned in a prior year, TEACH THEM! Please, please, please DO NOT ignore it! 

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