A big goal for me this year was to add more cultural lessons into my classroom. I started by purchasing Sra. Cruz’s amazing Cultura Diaria – Daily Hispanic Culture Facts for Each Day of Spanish Class as my daily bell-ringer for my 6th graders. I made them a supplemental note-taking packet to go with it, and each week we look at a different country. Over the course of the week, they
have to 1) label the map with the weekly country and capital 2)paraphrase that country’s facts, and 3) watch the videos included in the powerpoint. They have all week to complete those 3 things (they have access to the presentation through our secure Google Classroom), and the videos are the incentive to work efficiently. So far, the kids find it interesting. Thanks Sra. Cruz! Also, it gave me the opportunity to teach some paraphrasing and note-taking skills, which is a helpful executive functioning skill for all students! I started noticing that my fast finishers didn’t need the whole week to finish their notes and videos and I had recently purchased Hispanic Heritage Month – Song of the day – 1 from each country! by Mis Clases Locas, another favorite blogger and fellow TpTer! I was going to save these music videos for another time, but since there was one for each country, I decided to add them into our Cultura Diaria slideshow. Now my fast finishers also get a taste of music with their weekly culture facts!
