🏗️ This course helps students with basic Spanish knowledge build on their foundation by practicing vocabulary and phrases through readings, back-and-forth dialogue, and games. 

🗣️ This is not a lecture-based class. Some grammar rules are sometimes briefly mentioned as we practice them in the context of our conversations. However, in this class, each student orally participates extensively in each of the three elements--reading, chat, and game. 

📖 Students also enjoy the cultural element of reading and learning from traditional Hispanic children's songs and poetry, which we glean from to delve into questions and answers afterward. 

🧑🏻‍🏫In this course, students receive support from an attentive, encouraging teacher as they practice their language skills in a small group setting. Images and print on the screen serve as scaffolding to assist students in forming questions and responses.

Summer lessons:
5/29 - Poem: "Cinco ratoncitos (Five Little Mice)," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Animal body parts and actions
6/5 - Poem: "Mis ovejas (My Sheep)," a traditional, public domain poem (usually called "Tengo, tengo, tengo (I have, I have, I have)" made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Things we have and are given and what farm animals provide
6/12 - BREAK
6/19 - Poem: "Los pollitos (The Chicks)," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Physical needs and how we meet them
6/26 - Poem: "De colores (Colorful)," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Colors
7/3 - Poem: "La cucaracha," a traditional, public domain poem altered and made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: What we can do and what we don't stop doing
7/10 - Poem: "Aserrín Aserrán," a traditional, public domain poem slightly altered and made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Restaurant conversations
7/17 - Poem: "A la una," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: What we do at different times of day
7/24 - Poems: "Aquí está la luna" (Here is the Moon) and "El sol es de oro" (The Sun Is of Gold) a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Materials, celestial bodies
7/31 - Poem: "Pin Pon," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Getting ready in the morning and at night

Optional worksheets are provided for students to complete after each lesson, along with a copy of that week's reading for reference.