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Pair these FREE educator-developed printable activities with your favorite 51勛圖厙 videos, books, and songs to help your child develop critical reading, writing, math, and social emotional learning skills. Plus, check out our Tips for Grown-ups to help reinforce the teachable moments in each lesson.
Learning is fun with Canticos! We design every book to help kids learn as much as possible while helping them to become bilingual in Spanish and English.
Learning is fun with Canticos! We design every book to help kids learn as much as possible while helping them to become bilingual in Spanish and English.
Here are some tips to help you maximize the bilingual benefits, learning and fun with the first title in the Canticos book series: Little Chickies/Los Pollitos the quintessential classic Spanish nursery rhyme that tells the story of three little chicks and their mother hen. The story serves as a metaphor for the demanding nature of babies and the unconditional love and care given to them by their parents.
Use the book to talk about topics like farm animals (the sounds they make, what they eat, where they live, etc.) and babies (how they communicate their needs and how parents respond).
This is a great book to discuss springtime and to cover holidays like Easter and Mothers Day.
The simple lyrics and catchy tune sprinkled with the p穩o p穩o p穩o of the little chicks, will have you and your little ones singing in both English and Spanish. Not a Spanish speaker? Dont know the tune? No problem!
Check out the , part of Canticos larger Emmy-nominated YouTube cartoon series, to see the lyrics and to hear the correct pronunciation.
Canticos books are available in two formats.
Reversible board book: Read the story once in English. Flip the book and read it in Spanish. Open the book across to see all spreads and 1. Lay it flat on the floor to see the whole story at once or 2.Stand it up and connect the ends into a circle to sit inside and be surrounded by the story.
Little board book: Pick one language to read the story through to the end. Start again in the second language.
For your little ones that are just starting to learn their letters, they can practice tracing the shape of the letters in the book using their fingers. Older kids learning to write can practice writing simple words like chick and hen as well as onomatopoeic ones like p穩o and gulp.
Get little ones saying p穩o p穩o p穩o as they open and close their hands imitating a chick opening and closing its beak. Or get them flapping their wings as they bend their arms at their elbows and raise them up and down.
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Raising a bilingual child? On this page, our very own Director of Learning Design and Efficacy, Sophia Espinoza, addresses some of the most common questions, concerns, and curiosities around the benefits of bilingualism. Get the scoop below!
Sophia Espinoza is a career educator and curriculum designer with seven years of experience teaching in private and independent schools across the country. She is an expert in 21st-century education, including technologically-powered personalization, multilingual and multicultural curriculums, and social-emotional learning.
Sophia began teaching in Chicago Public Schools through Chicago Teaching Fellows, learning to support both English Language Learners and students with neurodiverse needs. Among her proudest accomplishments is launching the AltSchool Spanish Immersion Program, with the mission of creating bilingual global citizens who are socially conscious and environmentally aware. Sophia holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and M.A.Ed. from Dominican University.