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El Alfabeto
Since the point of a blog is NEW material I will also share one of the highlights of my week. I know that many people say teaching the Spanish Alphabet is boring and unneeded in Spanish I, but from my experience, they always love learning it, and it is a great way to introduce the differences/similarities, as well as the vowel pronunciation. Well, this week we spent a day on the alphabet including learning this song. It is military cadence style with call and response, and my class was REALLY into it.
We stood up to march in place to the song while singing and I joking told them they could march around the room if they wanted. All of a sudden my entire class was proudly marching in a giant circle around my room loudly and proudly chanting the Spanish alphabet. While our class parade circled the room my principal peeked his head in with a huge grin and said “I love how I always see learning going on in this room.”
Allison Wienhold of Mis Clases Locas has a decade of experience as a #deptof1 secondary Spanish teacher in Iowa. She enjoys creating curricula using novels, films, and music. Allison provides professional development to World Language teachers, including being the keynote speaker at MALT and Comprehensible Iowa, and workshop presenter at dozens of state & regional organizations, school districts, AEAs, and virtual conferences.
Kristin says
I use this song to teach them the alphabet! It's so catchy and you can see them remember it.
I love hearing them singing it in the hallway!