BOCA BETH: One Song at a Time

WOW! I love it when research experts come out with some of this ‘new’ information.

As a mom you will be so astounded! As a teacher you just won’t believe your ears nor your eyes! As a parent you will wonder how you ever got this far with your children prior to hearing the latest from these teams of people who document their findings!

Now - first of all - I think you can detect many notes of sarcasm in those three exclamations above. I am truly kidding around that you will be astounded and surprised. Second of all - don’t get me wrong about my respect for experts and research teams. I read lots and lots of research papers, publications that sport case studies on bilingual education and foreign language acquisition (though I find ‘foreign’ to be a much outdated word) and truly value their findings.

It’s just the ‘latest’ that a company reported on in an e-mail kind of talked down to those of us who are raising children, have raised children or work in the field of early childhood development. Basically it says that children learn best when involving as many of their senses as possible…………………….SHAZAM BATMAN!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!!!

That is why we show our baby an object, talk or sing to her about it, let him feel it, make swaying motions back & forth while using the new object and sometimes involve smelling the new object and/or allowing Junior to taste it. In honor of this ‘new’ study, these amazing revelations of knowledge, we bring to you our Boca Beth Senses song from our third bilingual music CD for children and Lesson Fun from our Educator’s Club that costs less than 5 cents per day!

Want the fun and FREE language cards to go along with this song and its lesson? Comment back with your e-mail included or simply e-mail me at bocabeth@msn.com and I will e-mail these FREE downloadable cards ASAP to get the bilingual fun going in Spanish and English.

“We Have Senses”
(original song)

We have senses that we use
Tenemos sentidos que usamos
We have senses that we use
Tenemos sentidos que usamos

I see with my eyes
Yo veo con mis ojos
I see with my eyes
Yo veo con mis ojos

I hear with my ears
Yo oigo con mis orejas
I hear with my ears
Yo oigo con mis orejas

I taste with my mouth
Yo pruebo con mi boca
I taste with my mouth
Yo pruebo con mi boca

I smell with my nose
Yo huelo con mi nariz
I smell with my nose
Yo huelo con mi nariz

I touch with my hands
Yo toco con mis manos
I touch with my hands
Yo toco con mis manos

We have senses that we use
Tenemos sentidos que usamos
We have senses that we use
Tenemos sentidos que usamos

Here are the fun curriculum lesson suggestions if you would like them - straight from an Educator’s Club issue:

Senses/Sentidos (song #8 on Sing Along With Boca Beth CD)

If you found a hand mitt/glove with the different body parts from our “My First

Songs in Spanish” CD song called “Where is My . . . ?” you can use that same prop for this

song. Many educational supply catalogs carry a hand mitt with Velcro

attachments of the five senses. Ask the children to gently point to their eyes

for seeing, their ears for hearing, their mouth for tasting, their nose for

smelling and then give them high fives for their hands up for touching. They

love that you incorporate movement and interaction with the “Give me

cinco/Give me five” fun!

Science with the Senses:

Smelly Volcanoes..

A really fun science activity for the five senses is to make smelly volcanoes. Here is what

you will need to get started:

• Kool-aid (already in pitchers, mixed up, use different flavors for different colors)

• Baking soda

• White vinegar

• Eye droppers

• Clear glass or plastic containers for easy viewing

First add different colored Kool-aid to the dry baking soda that is heaped in a

volcano-looking pile inside different clear containers. This gives colors (sense of

sight) and a pretty good smell (sense of smell). Then add the white vinegar by

eyedroppers, and the children can see the chemical reaction (sense of sight) and hear

the dry compound turn into a liquid and then a gas (sense of hearing). As a child

explores by touching the liquid/bubbles/dry ingredients, the (sense of touch) will be

used. The (sense of taste) is not recommended!

Happy Educating! ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

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