Activities and horoscopes for 2022

Happy almost New Year! I hope that you are enjoying your winter break. I took a long break at the beginning and am cracking open my computer to knock out a few things at the end of the break. While there is a lot that is uncertain, I am so excited to see my book

Super Bowl: 2021 Lesson Plans

Happy Friday! I hope you are all doing well! My baby girl finally arrived last Saturday! I have been enjoying the time with her- but I wanted to pop on here to share my activities that I made before she made her grand appearance. Thanks to Bethanie Drew, Martha Balthaser and Vanessa Monell for helping

Horoscopes 2021 and Best of 2020!

I think it is telling that I normally post my best of posts from 2020 earlier in December- and here we are jamming them all together! Whew! It has been a year. I am currently EXTREMELY pregnant- and hoping to fit two more weeks in with my students before baby girl comes! I am simultaneously

New Year’s Predictions!

Happy New Year’s Eve!  Each year, I like to start off with horoscope predictions for the upcoming year.  I have written them to include predictions for 2019! Horoscopos_ 2019 If you want, you can have students also review their horoscope for 2018 and see what came true and what didn’t!  (You can also see some

Post winter break plans

Although most teachers don’t want to admit it, the end of winter break is approaching fast!  I have put together some plans that I have thought about to help you get started for your first day back to school: My favorite activity is having students read their horoscopes!  I wrote an easy version of horoscopes

December Idea: Play La Lotería in your class!

I am going to do a Lotería unit from Kara Jacobs this year.  It is amazing (and currently on sale!) and the cultural connections alone that this video bring up are incredible.  I wanted to bring the spirit of La Lotería to my classes.  I bought these lottery tickets (although they sell them at the dollar

Día de los Muertos Activities

Over the weekend, I found this touching video about Día de los Muertos.  You could do a MovieTalk with this video; however, I decided to make an embedded reading about the video first.  I try to use volleyball translation judiciously, but I would start with that.  During the next reading, I will have students illustrate

Predictions for 2016!

Happy New Year’s Eve!  I hope that everyone has had a wonderful holiday celebration and will have a fun NYE!  I used to dislike figuring out what to do for New Year’s Eve, but we have since filled it with traditions, and I love it. On break, I was reading about a Puerto Rican astrologer

Wayback Wednesday: Valentine’s Day Ideas

I was going to post my Valentine’s Day ideas tomorrow, but my scheduled post is taking longer to write out than planned.  (Stay tuned, I am really excited for it!)  Instead, I am going way back (not really, just the past two years…) to talk about my favorite Valentine’s Day plans: These poems would be

Monster writing prompts!

I want to give my lesson plans a Halloween twist this week- even though it is not culturally authentic.  Today, we started completed some monster writing.  I was able to use this for multiple levels.  I gave specific questions to answer.  Here are the prompts: Describe your monster. Describe your monster’s likes and dislikes.  What