BOCA BETH: Bringing Spanish to Life!

BocaBeth on Feb 9th 2010 at 4:20 am Educational products for children, Music CDs for kids, Program to teach Spanish, Teach child Spanish, bilingual song, boca beth, foreign language for children, spanish activities for children

Teaching Tips and a Batch of Bilingual Resources for Introducing Seasons

Many of you have heard me mention a FREE resource that I use often with my own daughter - OnLineFreeSpanish.com has a terrific section for introducing the seasons at this link. Enjoy!

I found the two books below on Amazon.com - used and new from $8.75+ Mi calendario, Las estaciones/My Calendar, Seasons (Conceptos, Bilingual/Concepts) (Spanish Edition) Bilingual Calendar/Seasons/ Weather Puzzle Cards Then from the Educational Company KAPLAN I found these cute flashcards on Seasons, Months, and more at this link. It was amazing…no, actually, it was disturbing to me how little there was from Lakeshore Learning, Discount School Supply and KAPLAN in terms of bilingual classroom aids. How is a teacher supposed to provide instruction in both languages a little bit each day if even the calendar doesn’t come with Spanish and English on the same visual aid?

Don’t worry amigas and amigos - Boca Beth will keep you in the loop! Here is the link to the CD with the Singing the Seasons / Cantando las estaciones song on it plus 14 other easy-to-follow Boca Beth bilingual songs!

Happy Educating! ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

P.S. (Not one person has guessed correctly where BOCA is from the most recent Where Is BOCA? Contest. Go back, study the picture, and win our cool prize pack. HURRY! This contest ends Tuesday, 2.9.10, at 8 pm!)

Tags: bilingual books for chidlren, bilingual education, esl, esol

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2 Responses to “Teaching Tips and a Batch of Bilingual Resources for Introducing Seasons”

# Discount School Supplyon Feb 9th 2010 at 9:52 am

Hi Beth,

Your blog is so cool! What a wonderful resource to bilingual educators!

I’m sorry to hear you didn’t find as many bilingual items at Discount School Supply as you wanted. I noticed when I searched our “bilingual” assortment online I found some products that didn’t show up when I searched for “Spanish.” This discrepancy in search results is currently being fixed– so I have to thank you for helping to bring this to our attention.

Also, I’d love to hear more about the bilingual items you (the expert) could use most. Our product development team is always thrilled to get feedback from teachers in the field. If you’d ever like to email me, I’d love to chat with you about your needs & suggestions.

Thanks,
Laurel from Discount School Supply
# BocaBethon Feb 11th 2010 at 4:02 am

An impressive update that speaks volumes about the attention to detail and what’s going on around them: Discount School Supply contacted me via the comment above in response to the disappointment that I voiced in my blog post about the limited number of truly bilingual resources for teachers hoping to bring Spanish and English together in the same visual aid.

Thanks to all of the comments and input I have received from all of you over the 7+ years of sharing our Boca Beth Program and Product line, I will certainly pass along educators’ wishes in the phone conversation that is scheduled for later this week between Discount School Supply and Boca Beth!