It's been a while since I have posted and I have a lot to update you on, as we have been very busy in Spanish class! At the end of October we spent some time learning about the Mexican celebration of Día de los Muertos. This is a very special and important holiday for families. Día de los Muertos translates to Day of the Dead in English and takes place on November 1st and 2nd.
Sometimes this holiday gets confused with Halloween because it is celebrated around the same time of year. However, Día de los Muertos is very different from the Halloween holiday. Mainly because it is NOT a scary holiday at all. Day of the Dead is filled with love, happiness, light, laughter, color, and music, and is all about family. Families in Mexico take time to remember and their ancestors who have died and celebrate their memory. They create ofrendas in their homes and decorate them with orange marigold flowers, candles, food, and pictures of their loved ones. It is an incredibly beautiful holiday filled wth family and love. One of our class activities involved creating a book with basic information about Día de los Muertos. In our discussions about the celebration, we also talked about the movie Coco, which many of the students have seen. This movie does a FANTASTIC job representing Mexican families, what this holiday means to them, and how they celebrate. I would highly recommend the movie as an accurate portrayal of Mexico and its culture. We also started a new unit this week, which is all about La Familia (Family). We started by learning the words for four family members in Spanish. We also learned the signs for the words as we went so that we can have a movement to go with each word. Below you will see the words we learned this week, along with the signs for each. See if your child can tell you the words in Spanish and show you the signs as well!
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