Llego la Primavera (Spring Is Here)

Did you know Ms. Brown, our wonderful new librarian and media coordinator, supports Spanish Integration by reading and discussing bilingual books when grades K and 1 visit the library?

This week, she's been reading Llego la Primavera (Spring Is Here) by Taro Gomi.

Here's what she has to say about her choice of this book and how she's using it to involve students in Spanish learning:

I selected this sweet little bilingual book because we have been reading books with a springtime theme during our read-alouds in March. This book offers simple sentence structure and great vocabulary that the kids practice saying with me. The students also follow along by reading the English translation of each page out loud. On some pages, we examine individual words, like "mundo" for earth. Because the book offers simple sentences of three or four words each, we notice how the structure of the sentences in Spanish are not always the same as the structure of the sentence in English. In English, sentences are most often constructed with the noun preceding the verb. This is often the reverse in Spanish with the verb coming first. I've enjoyed integrating Spanish into library storytime and hope you all are having a wonderful start to your 'primavera'!