Dear DLI Families, We made it! Thank you all for entrusting us with your child’s education. Thank you for the support and the faith in our new program. I am so thrilled to say that your children will be moving on to Kindergarten! The last two weeks we enjoyed our time with one another for...Read More

This week, we continued practicing our Zoophonics and Estrellita curriculum. We have seen great progress while working on Estrellita, which will be the phonics program for next year. This week we also planted Marigolds in honor of Virgin Mary. As I look back on things we’ve learned this year, I see how blessed I am...Read More

This week, we continued reviewing many of the things we learned throughout the school year – and-  we were introduced to Estrellita, the program that will be used next year for phonics. Estrellita is very similar to Zoo phonics, which means that it will be a piece of cake for our students! This week we...Read More

We started the week by celebrating 5 de Mayo and breaking our piñata full of candy. We continued practicing our Zoo Phonics and began working on our Mother’s Day activities. DLI was very excited to witness  our annual May crowning on Monday. We reflected on what we observed in Mass during the celebration to the...Read More

Welcome Back from Spring break and Easter! So excited to see you all again. This past week we celebrated Dia del Niño, celebrating our students and the joy they bring to the classroom. We had a picnic with yummy snacks and enjoyed extra time outside. We also read ¿A Que Sabe La Luna? This book was...Read More

We are so blessed to be in DLI!This Holy Week, we focused on Easter by reading Mi Libro de Pascua. We also finished our alphabet, and had a little egg hunt with baskets made by each student. Now that we’ve finished learning the alphabet, we asked who could spell their name in Spanish — and...Read More

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