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

Love, love, love this video of two toddlers who had fun learning their shapes in Spanish and English via my Boca Beth song:

How about some cool tools to continue the bilingual learning fun?

FREE STUFF:

Try this from Enchanted Learning’s web site.  (Follow the link of the text please.)

Language cards that you print off in full color, both languages on them, and then you laminate them!  Scroll through the many pages of cards to find all the shapes you wish to introduce.

This site is one of our favorites and has a wonderful array of things for preschoolers to learn about shapes, and even though they say ‘las figuras’ for ‘shapes’ and we use ‘las formas’ for ‘shapes’ it’s all good!  Did you realize there are more than 60 dialects within the Spanish language?  Often times there will be four Spanish words available for the one English word ~ all based on which Spanish-speaking country you pull the language from!  (Just a little FYI fun for you from me!)

STUFF THAT COSTS MONEY:

Name the shapes with the Sesame Street Gang!  This one looks like FUN!

I have personally never used this one, and it looks better for the older children (ages 6-9) so check it out!

I use this book A LOT during my live events because it introduces colors AND shapes.    You can get this for only $1.35 used on Amazon.com

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzLi22VqDEs

Want to introduce formas / shapes in your preschool classroom, in your family childcare home, or simply as the new year begins? 

Join me, Boca Beth, for this short yet edutaining bilingual fun lesson that uses the melody of Mary Had a Little Lamb, our free bilingual shapes language cards, coloring book pages from our 44-page coloring/activity book and the replay of our online TV show over at MomTV.com (look for the most recent replay of January 4, 2011 towards the bottom of my show page).

The song I Know My Shapes / Yo sé mis formas is off our second Boca Beth bilingual music CD for kids titled More Boca Beth / Más Boca Beth    Follow this link to read more about our successful bilingual CD that introduces more than 150 words and 30 phrases in both Spanish and English via music fun! 

Follow this link to fine the lyrics for the words from this bilingual kids’ song that introduces circle, square, rectangle, triangle, and oval (go down to the 14th song).

Follow this link to print off FREE bilingual language cards featuring these shapes!  You will find four shapes on this page, then search the other archived cards to retrieve the other shapes.  Later laminate them for extended use in the classroom or home setting with young children. 

Lastly, if you own our coloring/activity book for children, you will find all five shapes from this song on pages 27-30.  Young children learn via repetition, and after hearing the song you can use these simple coloring pages with English and Spanish on each page to help the learning continue!

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth