Update!

I have 21 little kinders who all speak English natively. However, a few have a bit more experience with the Spanish language than others through our district Spanish preschool or one parent is a native speaker.

The first few weeks of school were very, VERY hard. Although it was my second time in kinder (third year overall) I had never started the year with them since I had been a long term sub before. Imagine all your management, descriptions, explanations of routines, etc that are soooo important the first few weeks all in a language where NONE of your students understand a word you are saying! Yikes! Between me dancing around the room modeling every single thing to repeating phrases over and over again...we were all exhausted.

But alas!! It is the beginning of December and my little ones are moving so far ahead! I'm so proud! We have almost everybody acing the letter sounds and some are even reading! Wahoo! I'm hoping to begin a solid weekly structure to my literacy instruction. I have been doing leveled grouping with centers but we will begin truly using our curriculum and nose dive into the nitty gritty!

I know I am little behind on showing room set up but tomorrow I will return with pictures to show my room and how I use it. I am looking forward to sharing what I do every day to build biliteracy and bilingualism in my little kinders! :)

Chau!