Coje tu sobrero y pontelo…Summer is here.
click to enlarge. it’s worth it.
So ya, se acabo the school year. What a delight. Maria got to sleep in until 8:30 a.m., and I myself didn’t roll out of bed until nearly 8 a.m. It is Saturday, but I hope the trend continues. We both have been dragging. And, while I am all warm and fuzzy about the wonderful free time we’re going to have together, ask me how I am feeling at about Day 5 of “I have no one to play with!”
Of course, my main source of patatu is keeping up with Maria’s Spanish. Her class has been a Spanish-immersion one, and she spends six hours a day with a Catalana who kicks my ass every time she hears me say anything to Maria in English. I love that woman. Next year, Maria’s class will be bilingual, so Mami really needs to step up the Spanish action.
A thank you card from Maria’s classmate
Over at Parenting.com this week, I wrote about the volunteering I did in Maria’s classroom this year. I listened to the 5- and 6-year-olds as they read Spanish to me. The card at the top is from Maria and the one just above here is from a classmate of hers. It is very faint, as it is drawn in pencil, but can you see the image she drew of the two of us reading? Truly priceless. More over at Parenting.com.
I also am all whacked out about trying to keep up with the Spanish over the break. I’ve enrolled Maria — de cabeza va! — in a week-long Spanish camp and we will spend two weeks in Miami, where she will have to certainly habla because our Cuban relatives , who speak ni una papa de ingles, should be here by then. (And oh goodness, do I have stories to share about that immigration saga, but can’t because they’re not here yet and I don’t want to mess anything up for them.)
So, in the next few days, I will be forming the Summer of 2009 Spanish Battle Plan.
Wisheame mucho luck-o.
luck-o!
de veras, muy buena suerte!!Practicamos en la casa de abuela’s tambien
buena suerte con el espanol. soy una gringa que habla espanol, pero mis ninos no hablan nada en espanol. que triste, no? tenga un buen verano!