I'm teaching my 3rd graders about masculine and feminine words. Of course, they all think that there are now "girly" words and "boy" words. Only girls can use the girl words, and boys the boy words. It works well with people, all the -a ending words are for females. That makes sense. It gets a little confusing when we switch to objects, and they start to think that only boys can use soap (el jabon) and only girls can sit on a chair (la silla.)
After the lesson, Ben says to me... "I'm really glad that skirt is faldA and not faldO." (because if it was, boys would have to wear skirts.... ;-)
2nd Grade- when the kids are learning or relearning over 200 vocabulary words each year, they get them mixed up. So, I'm trying to give them little word clues to help them remember. I'm giving them little hooks to hang their memories on.
The word for farm is granja. I told them to think of what is grown on a farm (grain) and that would help them remember that farm is granja.
So on Wednesday, I asked 2nd grade, "what is farm in spanish?" and after pondering a bit, a boy replied..."wheatalones?"
Stay tuned for more laughs at school...
