BOCA BETH: One Song at a Time

What mom doesn’t love hearing her child sing?  What mom doesn’t love watching her child grow?  What mom doesn’t get all teary-eyed listening to her ‘baby’ recite words from a newly learned concept or song?

Enjoy your child this weekend singing/cantando (kahn-tahn-doh) in English and Spanish this song from my Boca Beth Program called I Love My Family/Quiero mi familia (key-air-oh mee fah-mee-lee-ah).  It’s off my second bilingual songs for children CD titled More Boca Beth / Mas Boca Beth found here at this link.

I Love My Family / Quiero mi familia
(sung to the tune of “B-I-N-G-O”)

Click here for the rest of the lyrics please from this Boca Beth song.  Scroll down to about the 9th song or so please. 

 And for some cute preschool activity fun or stay home with the children fun or homeschooling lesson time, check these ideas out and then go grab the free Spanish and English language cards off our Boca Beth web site for FREE today!

Using visual aides of the family members from this song I choose different children to be each family member. (Again, you can find the entire family in educational stores as a visual aid and simply laminate the English on one side, the Spanish on the other side.) Then we sit on our designated area of the semi-circle, and the child holding the “mommy/mama” walks around the circle showing us their “mommy/mamá” during the chorus about “mommy/mama” then that child sits down on their spot. The “daddy/papá” walks around and so on.

Another idea is to cut out pictures from a magazine showing the six family members (mommy, daddy, sister, brother, grandma, and grandpa).  Glue them onto card stock and laminate them if you have time so that each child has his or her own set of family members for this song.  If you have one of the activity parachutes in your home or classroom, take it out for this fun song, and have the children place their family member in the middle of the circle as that member is sung about.  Shake the parachute up and down letting the ‘mommies’ bounce around, then add the ‘daddies’ and so on so that by the end of the song every child has all six of their family members in the middle of the parachute.  No parachute?  That’s okay!!!  Use a round cloth tablecloth or a king size sheet cut into a circle shape.

Happy Educating!  Sea feliz educando……

Boca Beth