Welcome back to 100 Days of Bilingualism!
Each Monday you will receive a week’s worth of multilingual activities that you can do at home with your children. Not only will it be fun for your entire bilingual family, it will boost
Welcome back to 100 Days of Bilingualism!
Each Monday you will receive a week’s worth of multilingual activities that you can do at home with your children. Not only will it be fun for your entire bilingual family, it will boost your children’s bilingualism into the stratosphere!
Maria, a former school teacher who is currently homeschooling her four children in Spanish and English, is your 100 Days of Bilingualism guide. She loves to hear from you, so please leave comments about your own 100 days journey along the way!
In case you missed the previous posts, click here to read all of the 100 Days of Bilingualism posts.
Without further ado, let us pass things over to Maria who will lead you through another week of fantastic multilingual fun and activities…
Week 13: Dec. 3 – Dec. 7
Here we are in days 61-65 already!
We continue to enjoy the holiday spirit this week and keep our focus on thinking about others. We’ll make and decorate a tree, get outside to do some throwing, and come up with a list to inspire us to be kind and give to others.
As we keep going on our journey to 100 remember that in many ways each activity is just an excuse to speak your language with your child! Rather than think of the activities as something you need to check off and get finished savor the time you can spend together immersed in your language. You can stretch the activities out or shorten them as you see fit, just make sure that you use them to best fit your family and your language needs.
Have a wonderful week!
Materials for the week:
- daily three (number line, 100 jar, 100 day grid)
- prepared journals
- printed 100 word book page (one for each child)
- large green paper (at least 8 ½ x 11 but larger is better)
- brown paper
- colored paper in at least 4 colors for decorations
- small ball
Monday – 100 day journal
Journal week 13: If you could change places with someone for 100 days who would you be? Why? What do you think would be different? What would be the same?
At this time of year when its common for many of our children to do lots of thinking about wishes and wants this entry is a time for them to take a walk in someone else’s shoes which is always a good exercise. Taking the time to imagine life in someone else’s place is good practice for having empathy for other experiences and that is always a good thing.
This is a good topic to start talking about points of view and maybe using language you don’t use day to day. And, as always, remember its the process, not the final product that we are focusing on here.
Tuesday – Creating/Art Activity- 100 item tree
This time of year finds many people celebrating and if you live in North America there is a good chance t