Come celebrate winter while learning and practicing Spanish through play, song, story, and craft! This flex version of the class has no live meetings, but please see below the ways in which we will be interacting together. I respond to weekly learner-submitted videos with personalized video feedback.

🎄 Week 1 - Christmas-related vocabulary 
- Video lesson components: (1) Playful vocabulary learning with felt board, (2) Reading of book "El árbol de Navidad" (The Christmas Tree)*, and (3) Bingo Game
- Handouts: Printable version of the book, bingo sheets
- Please share: Your favorite color, something you like about Christmas, your favorite part of the story, your bingo sheet. (Readers may also read the story aloud via video if they like!) 
- Learner-to-learner activity: Issue us the "¿Dónde está?" (Where is it?) hand challenge to see if we can guess where your Christmas item is.

 ⛄ Week 2 - Snowman body parts 
- Video lesson components: (1) Playful vocabulary learning with felt board and (2) Snowman body-parts song** 
- Handouts: Class notes, cut-and-paste worksheet
- Please share: Your singing of the snowman body-part song and your completed worksheet. (Intermediate learners may also describe how to build a snowman in Spanish.) 
- Learner-to-learner activity: Collaborative snowman project. We will take turns saying what we add to the snowman to see how he turns out!

❄🌨 Week 3 - Winter weather
- Video lesson components: (1) Playful vocabulary learning with felt board  and (2) Traditional poem "Invierno" (Winter) reading in book form***
- Handouts: Printable version of the book, tracing worksheets, materials for stick-puppets to reenact the poem
- Please share: Something you like about snow; your reciting, reenacting and/or reading of some or all of the "Invierno"; and your completed worksheet. 
- Learner-to-learner activity: Scavenger hunt - find and share with this class one of the items from our vocabulary words for this week. Name your classmates' items in Spanish.

☕ Week 4 - Hot chocolate 
- Video lesson components: (1) Quick video lesson on how to sing the popular Spanish song "Chocolate"****, (2) Craft video lesson, and (3) Review 
- Handouts: Lyrics to the song, page for craft
- Please share: Favorite words and phrases you learned in this course 
- Learner-to-learner activity: Chocolate-song talent show - Record yourself singing the chocolate song. Listen to your classmates' versions of the chocolate song and tell them what award you give them (super fast - súper rápido; very clear - muy claro, etc.). I will issue a unique award for each contestant!

*The images and vocabulary in the book and bingo game are: Christmas tree, family members, dog, cat, mouse, snowflake, snowman, sheep, candy cane, stocking, ball ornament, and presents. The book "El árbol de Navidad" was written by the instructor for Spanish-learners about a family putting the above items on and around a Christmas tree.
**The snowman body-parts song is a rendition of "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes"
****The book to illustrate the poem "Invierno" is a creation of the instructor. The poem itself is a public domain, traditional poem.
*****The song "Chocolate" is a public domain, popular song.
NOTE: Holiday-related components of this class center on current tradition, not on any backstory or religious elements.