[ola] Re: Use those color sample cards from Home Depot for endless speaking activities
- From: Stel Schmalz <sschmalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:27:59 -0400
I'm so doing this! I picked up colors today. Thanks for sharing.
Stel
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Ruth Whalen Crockett <rwhalen@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Wow! Jody, this is awesome! I love your tossing criteria. Today I
> found myself saying out loud to my colleagues, "As long as you're speaking
> Spanish and building community, it's all good!" There is a beauty in
> simplicity. Yes, I know there is more to teaching Spanish, but I also
> don't want to let too much get in the way.
>
> Here is a fun activity we practiced in preparation for kids. Collect a
> bunch of paint sample cards from your local hardware store. Pass them out
> in the circle. Now begin to imagine all the conversation starters.
>
> In pairs or small groups...
> Five words to describe the color
> A place you visited that is related to the color
> A food you ate is summer
> A movie, book or piece of art
> Etc...
>
> Then I separated the group in two. One group was the shirt group, the
> other the pants group. They had to match up with someone from the other
> group that went with their color. Then we voted on what pairs had the best
> fashion sense.
>
> We also separated into cool and warm color groups and talked about
> feelings related to the color group. It was a great ice breaker to get to
> know each other and it felt like the possibilities were endless.
>
> One piece of advice, before passing out color samples cut off the names of
> the colors, they can be distracting.
>
> Here's to another great year!
>
> Ruthie
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of
> Jody Soberón [jodysoberon@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:29 PM
> To: ola
> Subject: [ola] Tossing years of worksheets, etc
>
> Hello fellow OWLers,
>
> It was fabulous to meet so many of you this past week! I am having a bit
> of a recycling/tossing dilemma: I have years of my own others' work in 4
> tall filing cabinets and am hoping for some helpful clarification and for
> you all to tell me to TOSS IT if
>
> 1) It has instructions in English
> 2) Is grammar based
> 3) is worksheets from text days. (I haven't used a text book in 6 yrs.)
> 4) It is vocab sheets or
>
> I am thinking about keeping it if
>
> 1) It can be used for HW or absence make-up and has cultural or review
> value
> 2) It can be used for review when there is a sub.
> etc.
>
> Thanks for your input!!
>
> Jody
>
>
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