Barcelona, With Love

​I am starting to close the dozen or so windows I have open on my phone about Barcelona. I am getting rid of the metro tickets.But, today, I am still so psyched about my trip to Barcelona. I sit at the piano and think of my sister playing Arabesque at a bookstore during the last night of a street festival....

Serendipitous

I learned a nasty lesson about not saving blog posts. I talk to myself sometimes.. Let me just check a reference really quick here, won't be more than a minute..  and kabam! ..What just happened?!.. This means I should go to bed and do the quickest recap of lesson planning serendipity that I can...

Dipping my toes in Spanish literature

For a while now I've been very protective of my books in Spanish. My rapidly growing collection has been due to an unquenchable desire to fill my house with Spanish literature, and hopefully, capture my children's interest in the language. We are a mono-lingual household, mostly. Spanish is the preferred...

Ruckus at the caucus

Am I the first person to cry at a caucus meeting? Picture a very prego lady who parked illegally 1/2 mile away from the door of the school building and arrived to her caucus meeting a little flushed but determined to do her duty as a citizen. Cuz that was me on March 15, 2012 and I may have looked ready...

Unleashing the blogger in me

Two years and yet another man-child later, I am reminiscing on the good 'ole days when I not only led bilingual storytime at the library every week (I called it Spanish playgroup) but miraculously lived to tell about it on my blog. Times may have changed (that's three kids now!) but I am again drawn...

Our Christmas posadas

It has been great to have ten days with my parents-in-law, my brothers-in-law, sister-in-law and lots and lots of Spanish speaking. Being the only family with grandchildren on my husband's side has its advantages. Many of the festivities took place at our house. One...

Library Playgroup: Hispanic Heritage Month, Columbus Day and decorating banderas (flags)

Music/Movement Time: Sapito/Little Toad Un sapito (A little toad) Que feliz vivía (Lived happily) Debajo de un puente donde un charco había (Under a bridge where there was a puddle) Dura dura dura dura pas pas pas (nonsense words) Yaqui yaqui yaqui yaqui pas pas pas Cabeza,...