This week we have been modeling strategies with Dual Immersion teachers and wanted to share a few photos with you. After working with a group of bilingual teachers, we also later visited their classrooms and took tons of pictures! Bilingual teachers don’t have many opportunities to visit other bilingual classrooms, so we decided to bring them to you!
In one first grade Dual Immersion bilingual classroom, I took a few pictures of bilingual strategies related to the study of Science. The bilingual teacher modeled a pictorial input chart in Spanish about the butterfly:
The bilingual teacher later modeled another pictorial input chart in Spanish about the butterfly’s life cycle:
Many songs, poems and chants in Spanish were also highlighted throughout the unit of study:
Do you have any pictures of your bilingual classroom that you would like to share with bilingual teachers? Leave a comment here and we will contact you, or you can email your pictures to us at multilingualmania(at)yahoo(dot)com.
Bilingual Classroom Pictures:
Building Biliteracy in a First Grade Bilingual Classroom
Spanish Language Development in a Kindergarten Dual Immersion Classroom
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