This week in DLI, we did many fun activities! We contiue reviewing our shapes and numbers, and are finishing our alfabeto. This week, we focused on letra Yy our silabas: ya,ye,yi,yo,yu. We continue watching el mono silabo and smile and learn. Those two resources really get our students engaged. We read La Vaca Que Puso...Read More

This week in DLI, we finished the letter Ww and started letter Xx. We welcomed the month of abril (April) and we had a little April fools joke for our little ones. We had “brown E’s”. We read two fun books –  El Rey de La Casa and Dios Me Creo. Our positive affirmation mirror,...Read More

This week we prepared to have the “main event” of our self love/positive affirmation lesson. We told students that, they would find out who the “estudiante favorito” is. We first began by defining and understanding the words estudiante and favorito, which DLI students understood with little to no help. We also had the espejo (mirror)...Read More

Welcome, Spring! Feliz Cumpleaños, Felix! Thank you for the yummy popsicles – a nice treat to start spring! Hope you enjoyed the “reading squad” as a way of celebrating with you!  Bienvenida Camila – we are so happy to have you in our classroom! ¡Gracias, Mrs. Mecozzi, for being this week’s Mystery Reader! We really...Read More

This week we focused on letter Tt and continued practicing our numbers as well as our recognition. We read Lola Planta un Jardin and also discussed how “estamos en la linea en medio de primavera y invierno” –  we are in the line between spring and winter. In addition to reading the story, we started...Read More

This week in DLI, we focused on letter Ss. We practiced S with the vocales (a,e,I,o,u) to make a sílaba. We also focused on numero 20. This week we also celebrated Dr. Seuss! We read The Cat in the Hat…or should I say, El Gato Ensombrerado. We did a few activities related to the book...Read More

This week we learned all about the letra Rr and combined the letter with syllables to make ra,re,ri,ro, and ru. We also began adding those syllables to other previously practiced syllables. We continue practicing our numbers, and practiced using a worksheet on the number of the week. Next week we will finish counting all the...Read More

This week we focused on the letter Qq and continued working on our numeros (numbers). The number we mainly focused on this week was numero 18.  The book of the week was La Mejor Sopa del Mundo where we learned about ingredientes (ingredients) and how each friend brought something to add to the soup.  We...Read More

This week we learned all about the letter Pp and read La Tortilla Corredora. We had a really fun activity following the story of the week by making our very own tortillas!  You can watch the video HERE.   Although we didn’t have “aguacate y sal” (how Santi likes it), we were able to have seconds!...Read More

Can you believe that we’ve been in school for over 100 days? This week we focused on the letter Oo and started getting into the Valentine’s Spirit. We discussed ways that we can be kind and also what it means to be kind. This week we read 2 books about friendship, “¿Quieres ser mi Amigo?”...Read More