Aprendizaje Ingles!

So during my time in Spain, I spend Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at the school and everyday I nanny the girls at my house.  It works out really well because I live in the house with the family without having to pay rent and playing with the kids is not a job for me because it is so much fun!  However, the overall role I have while in Spain is to teach as many people English as I can while also learning how to speak Spanish.

My first little project was from a book called "Como se dice en Ingles?".  It's basically an alphabet book of various words with pictures and the actual word written in Spanish and English along with the English pronunciation using Spanish letters.  The set up of the book was more or less like index cards and I thought a fun way to learn some words was to make a memory game.  I photo-copied 3 pages of words starting with 'A' two times each, cut the pages to make index cards, and laminated the cards.  Basically, you turn the cards upside down and use your memory to find it's pair--the only exception is that you have to say the word in English before the next person can go.  I decided to try it on my girls at home to see if it works and so far -- they love it!  Last night, my host mom, host dad, Agueda (4) and Valentina (2) played the memory game together and it was a total hit!  It works out well because the parents can use the pronunciation part to sound out the word in English and the kids just repeat :)

After that, we turned on some Spanish music and just danced and played with the kids in the Salon, and I tried teaching the girls 'Itsy Bitsy Spider'.  Agueda would repeat some words in English but then change some to Spanish--like instead of 'Went up the water spout' she would say 'Subrir, Subrir, Subrir' (which means to go up).  It was one of the cutest things ever :)