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A day (or week…or month) in the life of a Sr. Wooly Song

Posted by: Kelly    Tags:  , , , , , , ,     Posted date:  July 31, 2017  |  Comment


[et_pb_section bb_built="1"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.0.63" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" border_style="solid"] If you know me, you know that I LOVE me some Sr. Wooly. The why is easy--the songs and videos are fun, comprehensible stories that engage students and help them acquire language. But the HOW could be a different matter.  What do you DO with the songs?  That is a loaded question.  Loaded, because there is no right answer.  There is no wrong answer.  There are just...

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El capibara con botas–critical thinking in early level 1!!

Posted by: Kelly    Tags:  , , , , , ,     Posted date:  March 28, 2017  |  No comment


This year I read El capibara con botas by Mira Canion in my Spanish 1 class.  We started this book on roughly our 8th day of every-other-day of block scheduling classes.  Which means in a typical HS schedule, this was about Day 12.  I can't stress how impressed I am that Mira was able to write a   book that is comprehensible this early in the year.  There are very few books that would be approachable this early in the year.  The only other one I know of is Pobre Ana by Blaine Ray. What...

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