Los Catbirds: Oso café, oso café, ¿qué ves ahí? / Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?

Los Catbirds’ interest in a very popular children’s picture book offered the opportunity to link concepts to their Spanish language class experience. Eric Carle’s storybook, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” is a classic favorite that los Catbirds enjoy reading over and over. In Spanish class, the students were introduced to the Spanish version of the book, Oso café, oso café, ¿qué ves ahí?, as well as a YouTube video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3pdqG0XDbg. 

Flashcards were created for each of the characters in the story and many games of matamoscas (fly swatters) were played to help the children learn and reinforce the Spanish word for some colors and animals. To foster their memory skills by concentrating and focusing, we played ¿Qué falta? (What’s missing?) using small figurines to represent each character. 

Additionally, a bingo game was crafted to help support the children’s new knowledge. This game helped los Catbirds strengthen their Spanish vocabulary recall ability using the combination of both colors and animals.  Without a doubt, the rhyming and predictable text make this picture storybook a delight for all the Catbirds, in English and in Español.

Vocabulary introduced:

oso café – brown bear

pájaro rojo – red bird

pato amarillo -  yellow duck

caballo azul – blue horse

rana verde – green frog

gato morado – purple cat

perro blanco – white dog

oveja negra – black sheep

pez dorado – gold fish

maestra – teacher

niños – children

¿Qué ves ahí? – What do you see?

Veo un _________ viendome a mí. - I see a ___________ looking at me.