The teacher will only speak in Spanish for the duration of this class for a more immersive language learning experience.

Materials needed:Tape, cut-out elves, pictures of rooms in a house, crayons, paper.

Workshop Activities:

Vocabulary and Reading

1) The teacher will introduce the vocabulary using choral repetition and showing students the pictures of the rooms of the house.

Tip: Students will often mimic the manner in which a word is being presented to them so try whispering, yelling, cheering, etc the vocabulary to get learners more engaged!

Vocabulario: Casa (House), Cocina (Kitchen), Sala (Living room), Dormitorio (Bedroom), Jardín (Yard), Duendes (Elves)

2) The teacher will read a book about elves to the class. A possible option is El Zapatero y los Duendes by Henriette Barkow. The teacher will explain what a duende is by showing an image of an elf.

Donde esta el Duende? (Where is the elf?)

1) Children and teacher will work together to tape the images of vocabulary onto the walls. 

2) The children will each be given a duende and will be instructed to put their duende in a room in the house. The teacher will go with the student and ask "Donde esta el duende?" and then will say where the duende is "El Duende está en la cocina!". The teacher will then ask the whole class "Donde esta el duende?" and she will cup her hand to her ear for the class to response (choral repetition). This will repeat for all of the students in the class.

Craft Activity

-Time Permitting-

1) The teacher should have an example of their own duende drawing ready before the lesson begins to be used as an example. 

2) Through gestures and speaking in Spanish from the teacher, the children will be asked to draw their own duendes in a room in their house using crayons and paper provided to them.

Libros:

For more language practice at home check out the following books from the library’s Spanish collection

My room = Mi cuarto by Rebecca Emberly, El Zapatero y los Duendes by Henriette Barkow, The Elf on the Shelf: Una Tradicion Navidena by Carol V. Aebersold and Chanda A. Bell, Una Casa para Cangrejo Ermitano by Eric Carle.

Citation:

Farnsworth, May, Isabelle Girolamo, and Carolina Travalia, “Mi Casa (My House),” Spanish and Hispanic Studies Digital Gallery at HWS, July 2024, https://galeriahispana.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spanish-for-children/vocabulary-practice-home.

The use of these images is solely for educational purposes.