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Our class kicked off our final morning by making masks while we learned about Carnival celebrations in Spain. We also played the campers’ favorite vocabulary games and practiced the final presentation for parents.
When the parents arrived the campers sang two songs, “Como te llamas?” (“What’s your name?”) and “La Lechuza” (“The Owl”).

The youngest campers showed off their skills at answering “Como estas?” (“How are you?”) and the oldest campers performed a skit with an injured patient visiting the doctor.

Then it was time to say adios! We had a great week and will miss the students very much!

Photos by Kara Newhouse.

The seven members of this week’s camp can now name most of their body parts in Spanish! To practice face and color vocab, they made monstrous, or monsters, to describe to their friends. Here are some examples:

They also learned about barriletes, or kites, flown in Guatemala to celebrate all souls’ day (the day after Day of the Dead). We watched a slideshow of the huge kites made out of tissue paper and bamboo with symbols to represent the villages where they are constructed. Each camper made their own paper kite with representations of where they live or things they like!

Photos by Kara Newhouse.

This week of Spanish Camp is flying by!! It’s hard to imagine it’s Wed. already. Our little campers have been super busy learning lots of Spanish. We started the week learning greetings and words to discuss how we are feeling. We moved onto some exciting lessons about the face and body. Today was particularly exciting, we pretended we had some “boo boos’ and needed to see the Dr. We had a great time learning how to ask each other what happened, and what hurts. Some of the pictures taken today show us getting ready to talk to the “Dr.”