Hablamos Espanol!

Hola!  We've had some parents request that our Spanish vocabulary be posted on our blogsite, so here are our words for the month of November.  Also, we are studying Puerto Rico this month.  Our focus will be on the culture as well as the native coqui.  A coqui is a tiny frog that has a distinct song (it sounds like "co-key").  The people of Puerto Rico love their coquies and have written songs and legends about them.  Ask your child what they have learned about Puerto Rico and the coqui!

Vocabulario (vocabulary):

• los colores (lohss co-lore-ace) the colors
• rojo  (row-hoe) red
• anaranjado (on-uh-ron-ha-dough) orange
• amarillo (om-uh-ree-yo) yellow
• verde (vair-day) green
• azul (ah-zool) blue
• morado (more-ah-dough) purple
• negro (nay-grow) black
• blanco (blahn-co) white
• marrón (mah-rone) brown
• rosado  (row-saw-doe)  pink
• gris  (grease)  grey
• grande (grahn-day) big
• pequeño (peck-kay-nyo) small
• duro (dur-oh)  hard
• suave (swah-vay) soft
• delgado (del-gah-dough) skinny
• gordo (gore-dough) fat

To help your child practice Spanish, ask them to describe everyday items.  For example, “What does your pillow look like?  What color is the pillowcase?  Is it soft and fat, or hard and skinny?”  You can play “I Spy” in the car, or even practice singing our “Canción de los Colores.”
 

“Canción de los Colores"

(to the tune of “Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush”)

I see the color red right here, red right here, red right here,

I see the color red right here, in Spanish red is rojo.

(Substitute various colors in English and Spanish.)