{"id":22827,"date":"2019-11-06T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:12:09","slug":"oeiwgbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/22827","title":{"rendered":"Little Ducks Speak Spanish&#8230;In Trucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With our friends over at the Children&#8217;s Center, we sat down for our monthly story time visit. The theme for story time was Spanish language&#8230;<em>and ducks in trucks!<\/em>  Our focus was to slowly introduce something new, in this case the Spanish language, with something they like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <strong>Song One:<\/strong> We started with a welcome song, &#8220;We clap and sing hello!&#8221; to get the jitters out before diving into the first book. This song comes with many verses to make it fun to move around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Book One<\/strong>: Jumping right into Spanish could have been a little difficult for children to understand. Our first story was in English called &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"A Truck Full of Ducks (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/1q3c9ri\/UWI71414373860002121\" target=\"_blank\">A Truck Full of Ducks<\/a>&#8221; by  Ross Burach . Knowing the little friends enjoy trucks and ducks, we started with this book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Song Two: <\/strong>After our first story, we sang a little song about trucks. We called it &#8220;Five Little Dump Trucks&#8221;. The kids enjoyed it because we had a visual of the trucks pulling off the road, and we counted how many trucks there was &#8220;pulling off the road&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/ST-duck.jpg\" alt=\"book cover of Nuestros Amigos del Alfabeto and Truck Full of Ducks\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book Two:<\/strong> Our second book was called &#8221; Nuestros Amigos del Alfabeto&#8221; by Diane Gonzales Bertrand. This is a story for young kids who are starting to learn spanish. Each page goes letter-by-letter, saying a new spanish word for the kids. After I would read a page, we would figure out what the word meant in spanish by matching words to pictures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Craft:<\/strong> After having fun with ducks and trucks, we decided to make our own duck puppets. They either made green ducks or yellow ducks. It was a fun craft for the children to remember our day, and keep in mind that &#8220;Pato&#8221; means duck in Spanish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/ST-duck-puppet.jpg\" alt=\"duck puppet craft\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Closing: <\/strong>Heigh-Ho, Its time for us to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our friends over at the Children&#8217;s Center, we sat down for our monthly story time visit. The theme for story time was Spanish language&#8230;and ducks in trucks! Our focus was to slowly introduce something new, in this case the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/22827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,645606],"tags":[318678,318679],"class_list":["post-22827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-story-times","tag-picture-books","tag-spanish-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22925,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions\/22925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}