Wednesday, March 18, 2015

El estudio de Egipto en segundo grado / Egypt Study in Second Grade

During Second Grade Spanish Language experience, the students have been focusing on using the target language to communicate things related to their current theme of study, Egipto, Egypt. With the use of a PowerPoint, we explored the geographical location of this amazing country and its neighbors.

We learned the vocabulary for the cardinal points: norte (north), sur (south), este (east), and oeste (west). We discovered that Egipto está en el noreste de Africa, Sudán está al sur de Egipto, Libya está al oeste de Egipto and El mar Mediterráneo está al norte de Egipto. Ask a second grader what it all means! To reinforce our learning, we used a large floor map to find different locations. The students became more confident with every opportunity to connect a verbal request for a location to the site on the map.


To further connect the Spanish language experience with their Egypt study, the second graders also learned Spanish descriptive words that identify some of the gods and goddesses that ancient Egyptians believed in. Because many of the names of the dioses y diosas do not change (only in pronunciation), the challenge was provided to learn adjetivos (adjectives) to describe them. Dioses y diosas flashcards, bingo game and crossword puzzles were created to help reinforce the learning.



At Egypt Night, many second graders shared Spanish vocabulary that describes some of the gods and goddesses they researched. You would be amazed!

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