Español con los Catbirds: Los transportes

¡Bienvenidos familia, amigas, y amigos! During la clase de Español, it was Anthony’s turn to choose our destination to a Spanish speaking country. After singing our morning greeting song, ¡Buenos día amigos!, Anthony suggested we head to Bolivia.  Upon our arrival to this Spanish speaking country, we gathered in a círculo and began our Spanish language experience.

Given that our clases begin by determining what mode of transportation we need to take to get to our destination, we thought we'd start by learning the Spanish vocabulary words for some forms of moving.

We first read Barron’s book, Transportation/El transporte. This book gave us the opportunity to connect the words for different kinds of transportation to its corresponding picture.

Vocabulary introduced

carro - car

bote - boat

autobús - bus

camión - truck

bicicleta - bicycle

excavadora – digger

tren – train

motocicleta – motorcycle

avión – airplane

After the read aloud, we sang a song that included some of the modes of transportation mentioned in the book. To the tune of “Itsy Bitsy Spider”, we sang the following but first, we hummed the tune to give us the note.

A carro is a car,

And a barco is a boat.

Avión is plane, and tren is train.

Bicicleta is bicycle, and camión is truck.

Helicóptero is helicopter,

Autobús is bus.

And, to further connect with our auditory and visual learners, photographs to match the mode of transportation mentioned were used.

We finished our class with our traditional song, Adios, hasta luego, and Anthony squeezing la vaca. ¡Gracias, Anthony!

¡Hasta nuestro proximo viaje! (Until our next voyage!)

Paz,

Alicia