Spanish Week

Yesterday marked the first day of Spanish week. The girls really want to learn it, so we are going to encourage it (even if it was my WORSE subject in school and still have nightmares about it). Before we show pictures of yesterdays stuff, here is something leftover from Green week. N asked where food comes from and from there we (mainly N, but I want some credit) came up with this activity. We mapped where our food came from last week. Not as much international stuff if one compares to what we had in Sweden. Kids enjoyed it and it was really interesting, even to me.

Back to Spanish. We started off reading about Picasso and looking at some of his art. Then we looked at the map below. Red indicates countries that have Spanish as a first language, blue is English and green in Swedish (hard to see, I know). Good results, though Z was a bit disappointed that no large country in Africa spoke Spanish.


We then played a game. We said the Spanish word and then sounded out the Swedish or English word. When they figured it out, they got to place the post-it notes on it. We are planning on playing this one everyday this week. So by the end of the week, the entire house will be covered in Post-it notes.



Still looking for more ideas if anyone has them.