[ola] Re: Use those color sample cards from Home Depot for endless speaking activities
- From: Caleb Zilmer <caleb_zilmer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:04:52 -0500
That rocks!!! Great idea, thanks for sharing. I'll be taking a trip to the
hardware store soon :)
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El 24/08/2013, a las 20:27, Stel Schmalz <sschmalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
escribió:
> 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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