Feliz Año Nuevo!

Happy New Year!!!

Good day Plato Family, hope your holidays were full of joy and you had a chance to relax. At Plato Academy we are full of energy and we are back on business after such a great winter break. We began our Spanish classes learning about more traditions from the Hispanic culture. For Hispanics, the holidays don’t end at Christmas, we still have two more holidays, “Three Kings day” and “Dia de la Candelaria”. The first one is dedicated to the three wise man go gave gifts to the newborn king. On January 6th, we start the celebration by cutting the famous “Rosca de Reyes”, a delicious sugar bread in which you may find a little plastic toy in the shape of a baby representing baby Jesus. The lucky ones who find it in their piece of cake will have the honor to host a party for family and friends on February 2nd, Dia de la Candelaria. On this day, the families gather together one more time to close the holidays savoring delicious tamales and champurrado, a very traditional meal in our culture.

Along with the excitement of this day, we learned that children from Hispanic countries leave a shoe by the window on this holiday so the wise men can leave their gifts for them. We talked about the differences between Christmas and Three Kings Day, and we learned that even though both holidays have many differences, they are also very similar and that the most important thing is that families get together.

We watched a short 2 minute video that explained a little about this holidays:

Little kids…..  https://youtu.be/OO3ZkCe-egM

Older kids….. https://youtu.be/NxeXIoJ8Dgk

We introduced a new song for the little ones so we can practice colors, animals and phrases,

https://youtu.be/7jBDsWOoWz0  the kids love it, you may want to play it for them. On that note, we will be using a lot of songs from Singalingo, some of them are accessible on you tube. We will continue using Rockalingua, Basho and Friends and Calico, all of them have great material you can use on line for free.

On the following weeks, we will be learning the following vocabulary:

Winter weather, Winter clothes, Animals, Shapes and colors

Hope you have a great holiday weekend. Hasta pronto! ( See you soon!)

Soraya Castro

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