Brillante Viernes: March 6, 2020

Happy Friday! We just got back to seeing a concert with our pre K, Kindergarten and first graders with 1 2 3 Andrés. Man- nothing makes a Friday better than singing in Spanish and dancing in a concert at the Kennedy Center! It was as adorable as it sounds! Meanwhile, check out these posts from

Brillante Viernes: February 28, 2020

Happy Friday and end of February! For us, it is the end of the trimester, and I finalized all of my grades expect a few make-up assignments. (Make-up assignments get me every time!! Trying to remember who has to do what and then remembering to grade an assignment here or there. Ooof. It has always

Brillante Viernes: February 21, 2020

Happy Friday! Whew- it has only been a four day week, but I have had some #highlightreel and #highlightreal moments. In my #highlightreel, we switched students, so I have a new class of pre-K and K students. My old students get SO excited to see me. They excitedly wave and tell their friends that they

Brillante Viernes: February 14, 2020

Happy Friday and Valentine’s Day! We have a four day weekend, so there wasn’t as much craziness today for me. (Also there MAY have been a Netflix marathon of the To All The Boys I Have Loved Before…) I have also been working on the THIRD upcoming EdCampCIVa! We are finalizing details, so stay tuned

Brillante Viernes: February 7, 2020

Happy Friday! This week, I have had a weird on and off cold. I am excited to relax and hopefully kick this illness this weekend. Plus the weather was crazy this week! My photo above is the calm before the storm outside my classroom today. We did take a field trip with my 6th grade

Brillante Viernes: January 31, 2020

Happy Friday! Hope you have had a wonderful last week of January! I had fun playing winking mafia with my fifth graders (which we modified to sticking out your tongue), and I got to go ice skating with the sixth graders which was a blast. I also got to see our early childhood students building

Brillante Viernes: January 24, 2020

Happy Friday! It has been a busy week for me, but I wanted to highlight a great activity that I used in 5th grade to practice tiene la culpa while we are reading Isabela captura un congo. I used that phrase to discuss the game Mafia. I wanted it to be a shorter version, so

Brillante Viernes: Posts to read, a new podcast episode and a free reading! January 17, 2020

Happy Friday! I hope you are thriving this week. My most recent interview is on We Teach Languages with Inga Paterson-Zúñiga! In it, we discuss how we have evolved our teaching, comprehensible novels and assessments. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed talking with Inga. In addition, Martina and I recently

Brillante Viernes: January 10, 2020

Happy Friday! We have all survived our first week (or first full week!) back from break. My students were overall rockstars, but I definitely had some moments that I was struggling. I first was surprised on Monday morning when my copies weren’t stapled… but it was a double sided single piece of paper. Then, I

Brillante Viernes: December 20, 2019

Whew!  This week was exhausting!  I tried to have mini celebrations in my classes and it was difficult.  Next year- I will spread them out.  #lessonlearned  Luckily, I had my sixth grade classes planned out with Nailed It Mexico.  It was a fun mini-unit, and my students learned a lot of vocabulary throughout the presentation.