It warms my heart when moms stop me to tell me what a difference my bilingual Boca Beth songs have made in their child’s language learning.  They searched for a fun way to teach Spanish to their child and found us!

I am celebrating hearing another success story recently from a Tampa family, and I am sharing one of the songs she says made a HUGE difference in capturing her 6 year old son’s attention as his 2 year old sister and 4.5 year old siblings were already loving the Boca Beth Bilingual Fun Stuff.  Follow the link below for the free MP3 download now:

Boca Beth bilingual song called Movin’ & Groovin’ 

Enjoy watching other children sing, dance, and play in both languages with this same song in our music video below:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVQPyI09aM

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

I am so fired up!  REALLY!  The most excited I have been in 2013!

Why???????

I am flying to Minneapolis, Minnesota one week from today to be the keynote for The Wright County Family Child Care Association Conference (follow this link to read more about this quality early childhood conference and register before they sell out).  The gal running things, Hollee, is a dynamo herself and has a reputation for putting together great trainers, delicious food that’s included in the registration price, fun exhibitors that relate to kids learning the fun way, and six hours of continuing education hours.  

As if that’s not enough for Hollee to handle, she herself is a family child care provider AND helps design web sites for other family child care providers and small business owners.  Find her here on the web for more search engine optimization and web site assistance fun.

Last time I keynoted in this wonderful state I felt so very welcome AND met American Idol Danny Gokey at The Mall of America!  Here’s what those amigas had to say about my keynote and trainings on how to bring Spanish and English together for young children:

 If you live in the area of Monticello I encourage you to register today, and then come up to me and say HOLA during the breaks or during the shopping time Hollee has carved out during this one day Conference which will be help April 20, 2013.

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

P.S.  Below is a short clip of me in action … maybe I could visit your early childhood or family child care conference next year?  I am only conducting one each year until our daughter enters high school!

I know this post has been a long time coming, but I wanted to wait until I had one NOPE Presentation under my belt before sharing with you all what the Lord has placed on my heart and in my life.

Follow this link to find out more about the National Organization and the many states already sharing this mission within their communities:  http://www.nopetaskforce.org/

In a nutshell, my family’s life has personally been touched by drug addiction, and when I came off the road as a keynote speaker in the Early Childhood Field via my Boca Beth Program, this calling to become involved with NOPE of Hillsborough County and become a moderator with our school presentations tugged at my heart hard!

I will be selling out of all my hard products (meaning all puppets, CDs, DVDs, coloring books and such) while I search for a curriculum company whose leaders wish to use my bilingual songs and license them from me.  This will most likely be my last Christmas of selling Boca Beth music CDs, DVDs, and gift sets.  Plus I have one training (Pasco County) and one Keynote (Minnesota) left to share.

It’s been a wonderful journey … both as an educator, an entrepreneur, a mom-owned business owner, and an amiga to so many people I have met along my Boca Beth Journey.

The Heavenly Father wants more from me, and I am poised to provide just that.  Sharing the message of NOPE is how I pray that I will make a difference in the lives of many, many students sitting in our auditoriums during our one-hour school presentations.

Thank you for being my friends.  I will continue to blog about winding things up.  And if any of you know of a company looking to have our 50 bilingual songs for children to use in their curriculum, please let me know and/or give them my contact information.  

Beth Butler 

813.855.5393

Many thanks.  Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

How are you doing with your introduction of Spanish this year so far?

Follow this link to join my YouTube channel fun – it’s FREE! It’s fun!  It’s easy to learn Spanish this way!

Are you making learning Spanish and English fun?  We even have a Christian bilingual CD:

Grab a puppet and make the learning come to life with music, YOU, and a puppet:

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

P.S. (Don’t forget to enter and win $50 worth of my Boca Beth fun bilingual products that help teach young children a second language the fun way!  Go here now to enter this Giveaway.)

This is one of my FAVORITE bilingual music videos we have made over the past 10 years of sharing our Boca Beth bilingual program for children to learn both English and Spanish.  It’s quirky, includes lots of children in the shots and helps kids of all ages learn some Spanish and English vocabulary.

Now try this for some more ways to greet your friends and family in Spanish (the lips don’t always match the  voice but still cute!):

This book can be found for only $1.24 USED on Amazon.com … order a bunch of bilingual children’s books at one time and save on shipping.

How about a cool bilingual laptop for that sweet little one in your life?  It seems like a very good price for this type of learning tool.  Bilingual education made fun!  Click here to learn more about it.

Hope the start to your traditional or homeschool academic school year is going fine / muy bien.  Stay tuned for more Boca Beth bilingual learning fun tips as we move through the end of 2012.

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

I never did show back up last week for a little more help with opposites in Spanish.  

Follow this link for some easy to read Spanish opposite help.

Enchanted Learning’s site has some great bilingual opposite fun ~ follow the link please.

Over at Kaboose.com you will find this game pretty fun for learning opposites in a second language.

Check out my web site’s page of free flashcards – many opposites can be found.

And for a little under $2 you can get this cute board book on Los opuestos / Opposites.

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

Check out these kids – super enthusiastic about shouting out opposites in Spanish / español!

More than 120 first graders learned their opposites in both English and Spanish using our Boca Beth bilingual song titled Opposites / Los opuestos.  Now you can learn even More Opposites / Más opuestos with our featured song and themed lesson fun for this week.

Find the suggested circle time activity to do with the more opposites song below:

This opposite song encourages lots of movement and bilingual learning. Sway dance is the dance of choice here with the chorus section – then the children act out the opposites as they are sung in English and Spanish. The children love acting out long & short, hot & cold, slow & fast and then open & closed. Lots of opportunities to sing, dance and play in this one.

Here are the words to our Boca Beth song where children learn about the shape of a star / estrella and more:

“More Shapes”

(sung to tune of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”)
Diamond is diamante

Diamond is diamante

Diamond is diamante

I know my shapes.
Diamante es diamond

Diamante es diamond

Diamante es diamond

Yo se mis formas.
Star is estrella

Star is estrella

Star is estrella

I know my shapes.

Estrella es star

Estrella es star

Estrella es star

Yo se mis formas.
Heart is corazón

Heart is corazón

Heart is corazón

I know my shapes.
Corazón es heart

Corazón es heart

Corazón es heart

Yo se mis formas.

See you later this week for more fun!

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

Click this link now!

I encourage you to check this out so that you will have some cool, free teaching resources to introduce Spanish and English to young children this coming school year!

Click this link now!

Happy Educating!  ¡Feliz educando!

Boca Beth

Years ago I wrote a song about the weather to the tune of The Itsy Bitsy Spider, and since we are in the midst of Tropical Depression Isaac.  Here in Tampa we are experiencing rain and wind from the storm so I felt sharing the bilingual song for children for free would be appropriate.

Download the Boca Beth Weather Song/Cancion de tiempo  (click the link)

Here is the link to the suggested music and movement activity that goes hand-in-hand with this song from my Boca Beth Program.  Look for song #13.

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

P.S. (Stay tuned for more teaching resources as the week rolls along.  Stay safe from the storm please.)

Good morning / Buenos días

Sure hope all of you are ready to start our weekly themed lessons via my blog right here at my web site, BocaBeth.com.  Throughout the year we will share bilingual teaching resources that are age appropriate for young children, free YouTube video lessons over at my YouTube channel, run contests for cool Spanish/English stuff, and create a community of raising bilingual children.

Why?  Check this out:

See you next week with Spanish and English learning geared for the young child.

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

 P.S.  (Congratulations / felicitaciones to Michele, Latoya, and Tina for winning our More Boca Beth bilingual music CD for simply commenting in this blog with WHY they feel it’s important to introduce both Spanish and English to young children.)