Hispanic Heritage Month

Our school has been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month everyday in September by telling facts on the announcements. In the library, we have been focused on learning about Hispanic Heritage Month this week. Our school's bilingual classes are following a dual-language model this year. That means that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays the students in bilingual classes are taught primarily in Spanish. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the language of the day is English.

To support the dual language program, I found some books that are bilingual-written in English and Spanish. The students read the book in their groups, then sorted words from the book into English and Spanish, and then they did three column note taking.

We also have been reading two fun books by Hispanic authors. Both of these books take a familiar story and tell it in a new way...using both English and Spanish words!

We are excited about the upcoming fall book fair and will be learning about some of the titles featured in this year's fair all next week.