We are going to make Fridays fun and happening around here all school year!
We are going to give some cool prize pack away each Friday (unless I am traveling) during this Academic School Year!
Today we want some lucky family/familia to win our Boca Beth I Like Animals / Me gustan los animales DVD and a BOCA puppet. Here’s how to win:
Visit my Boca Beth online storeand comment below or on Facebook (go here to join the fun on Facebook) which Boca Beth product or language learning set you like and why. It’s that easy. Sunday night we will select a random winner, then begin planning for the next fun giveaway.
Happy Educating!¡Sea feliz educando! and Happy Winning!¡Feliz ganadora!
So…you’re off on a summer vacation and see only $$$$ signs in front of you?
Fear not my Boca Beth friends/amigas & amigos! We are going to help with a free gift!
Snap a photo of BOCA the language amigo of our Boca Beth Programwhile you are away at a vacation spot with your child or you or even at an interesting local locale! E-mail it to me, Boca Beth, at BocaBeth@msn.com right away!
We will send YOU a Boca Beth t-shirt for you or your child!
It’s so great meeting new friends/amigas through the virtual world!
I want to introduce you to a fantastic new site hosted by my amiga Monica. It’s called Mommy Maestra (remember that a maestra is a teacher of young children who is a female).
In this post you will find many teachable opportunities bringing together The World Cup and bilingual education and young children!
Enjoy - and thank you Monica for all you do for others!
Happy Educating!¡Sea feliz educando!
Boca Beth
P.S. (Remember to enter to win a Boca Beth Beginner Set by sending in your photos to BocaBeth@msn.com by this Friday, June 25th! Read how to enter, what to send and why at this link. Look for the post with the kids pictures!)
We have been enjoying the World Cupin our home since my husband used to coach a team all the way through college, our son referees youth soccer and our daughter plays on a recreational soccer league here in Tampa, Florida! It’s in our home a lot!
To celebrate The World Cupand all of the youth in the United States loving this sport we are taking photos from you all week long! Read here how to enter!
DON”T WORRY!!!! These are not real roaches inside this ball!
No cucarachas running around my desk area today!
I am simply sharing with all of you one of the ugliest things I have ever seen for kids. It’s called the Horriball, and when you squish it the fake little cockroaches appear through the see-through bubble areas of this disgusting ball!
Now…you might ask! Then why Boca Beth are you sharing this revolting item with us? Well, if you know our Sing Praise for Children CD at all you will know that we put two traditional Latin American songs on it (in a bilingual Boca Beth format of course!).
One of the songs on it is La cucaracha / The Cockroach! I thought these Horriballs would be cool prizes to give away to go hand-in-hand with this song! Click below to hear the Boca Beth bilingual kids song, the fun translation we provided, then come back and comment below with an answer to this question: What does the cockroach not have to drink?
I admit it! I am a soccer mom! At the soccer field with our daughter three times a week, and now that the Florida heat has set in I can tell you it’s not as appealing as it might sound!
Might I share a quick story with you about what happened at the soccer field this past Wednesday night and how it should resonate with all of us as parents and as our children’s first teachers? Thanks!
For five years in a row a local elementary school, Plumb Elementary School, in Clearwater, Florida has been hosting a Multicultural Night titled Bringing Spanish to Life with the Boca Beth Music! The entire first grade class learns some of my bilingual songs, I drive over to the school and practice with them while at the same time give them a Boca Beth motivational short speech, then they enjoy a standing-room-only performance night!
These six and seven year old kids learn so much Spanish in such a short time it’s crazy! The parents love it! The teachers are heroines!
Wednesday night we are getting ready to leave the soccer field, and I see a young girl just staring at our vehicle, the magnetic signs on the side that advertise Boca Beth and its bilingual products, and I ask her if she’s having a great day. She replies she is and informs me that she learned some of her Spanish with ‘that Boca Beth music’ years ago at Plumb Elementary school!
She starts singing the song her class did which was the I Know the Days of the Week/Yo sé los días de la semana song! She is in 5th grade now and could sing the entire song to me! Then her sister comes over, tells me she did the show too, and her class did ¿Qué pasa? / What’s Happening? and SHE starts singing her song! Then - to make me feel even better - their older brother who is now in middle school announces he and his class learned the I Know My Shapes / Yo sé mis formas and he goes into action with the song!
What do you remember learning to music? The states? The capitals? The planets? A Math formula?
Comment below with what you learned to music years ago and whether or not you remember every word!
We will choose a random winner to receive a Boca Beth Beach Ball for summer and a Boca Beth bilingual t-shirt this coming Monday, May 17th!
WIN TWO MINI JUDY CLOCKS plus A BILINGUAL BOARD BOOK from Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
I had filmed a cool mini lesson using these adorable mini sized Judy Clocksfrom Discount School Supply, and when we went to post it the thing just will NOT work :( :(
So much for my mastery of technology! Maybe we will reshoot it or something, but in the meantime, I want to run a quick and easy contest for all of you blog readers right now! Ready? Here is how easy it is to enter: READ the suggested circle time activity below from our free resource area on the Boca Beth web site. Then comment below giving us your definition of what an echo song is - in other words, what makes a song be able to be called an echo song. Sunday night (May 2, 2010) we will gather all of the entries that are correct, and we will choose one random winner from the batch!
What Time Is It? / ¿Qué hora es? suggested circle time activity:This is an echo song. I ask the children if they remember what an echo is. I praise the correct answer person and ask them to be my echo in this fun song about telling time in Spanish and English. If the children are old enough to get the concept, they can act out the time of day while singing about it. We hold our arms out in the position of 8 o’clock, then straight above our heads for 12 o’clock, then pointing down towards the ground for 6:30.
You have a chance to win this CD pictured below & the four Silly Bandz pictured above that match four of the seven fruits in the song.
Here’s how to enter the contest to win. Visit my site and tell me one other song that you would want to hear off this More Boca Beth music CD. Click here to go to the details of the CD line up. Come back and comment below with the name of the song!
To increase your chances of winning - follow me on Twitter by going here! or become a Fan of Boca Beth on Facebook by going here! Each time you do one of the entry chance actions, comment in a separate comment below!
We will allow all of you as many chances as possible to win. And if you tell a friend about us and they enter (make sure you tell them to mention your name as a referral!) that gets you another entry into the contest!
On Monday, April 12th, we will count to see by person who has the most entries, and the highest number will win. In the case of a tie, we will put the names into a Sombrero and draw one lucky winner!
Not only do you get to watch BOCA (our puppet from the edutaining Boca Beth product line) star in this YouTube clip with Giancarlo Massaro from Any Lucky Day (What? You don’t follow Any Lucky Day yet? You should - every day you get a chance to win something super cool from his sponsors! Go here to sign up!) … you also get a chance to win an $85 Boca Beth Bilingual Backpack set chocked full of our award-winning CDs, DVDs, two BOCA puppets, musical shakers and our 44-page coloring/activity book that is presented in Spanish and English for easy ESOL and ESL learning fun!
So - hurry - join today’s contest to win our Boca Beth Bilingual Backpack now!!!!!!!!! Hurry! It ends at 11:59 pm Thursday, March 18, 2010!
Ahhhhh…..our little language amigo BOCA……What city is he looking out over in this picture?
Win a Boca Beth Prize Pack full of goodies from our award-winning Boca Beth Program- some of the prizes you can’t even buy online from us!
Prizes include: Boca Beth Beach Ball, Boca Beth Pen, Boca Beth autographed I Like Animals / Me gustan los animales DVD , BOCA puppet and a Boca Beth t-shirt *adult or child size - you choose*
How to enter: Comment below what city you think BOCA is looking out over. You must name the city - not the state - and even if you think the correct answer is already posted, we will take ALL entries up through Tuesday night at 8 pm (February 9th), mix the correct ones up in a Sombrero, and draw one lucky winner’s name!
Super Easy! Super Fun! Tell your friends about our blog please! And subscribe to it today so you don’t miss any of the lessons, any of the fun contests! Thank you / gracias. The more people we have playing, the more often I will provide prizes!
We are going to give some cool prize pack away each Friday (unless I am traveling) during this Academic School Year!
:( :( 
