Pollito Sombreros y Cinco de Mayo

Hi, below (just before the four Cinco de Mayo videos) you will find pictures of some of the beautiful caps we did yesterday.

I will bring them to class for practice and then again at the Festival.

Next week in class we will talk about Cinco the Mayo, a date many Chicanos, or Americans of Mexican descent, celebrate.

Enjoy the videos below.

Some of the pollito caps

More pollito caps

Another view.

We also made pollito rings

Why do we celebrate Cinco de Mayo? (CNN)




Cinco de Mayo: 5 facts that you probably didn't know.




5 Cinco de Mayo Myths




Cinco de Mayo (History Channel)

6 de mayo: Fiesta del Cinco de Mayo

Making guacamole, salsa, and chocolate

Yesterday we spent most of our class period in the kitchen preparing some food for our Cinco de Mayo celebration. We listened to mariachi music, made sangría, chocolate con churros, and delicious salsa and guacamole. We also displayed some of the finished piñatas at our fiesta (see below). Thanks to everybody for your help and for making this possible!

On Monday we will continue learning about likes and dislikes and will learn how to express what kind of activities we enjoy to do: Me gusta cantar y bailar (I like to sing and dance), ¿Te gusta jugar? (Do you like to play?), etc.

During our lunch break, students in our class will get to hit a couple of piñatas: (pirata y mono, below) and share the experience (and candy) with everybody at Academy.

Enjoy the following pictures and see you all on Monday. ¡Hasta el lunes!

estrella, palacio y cara feliz. Nice!

mini piñata (about 2'' long). So cute!

Piñatas para el lunes.

Raspando (shaving) el chocolate.

churros, salsa y totopos (tortilla chips)

Me gusta el chocolate espeso

Me gusta la sangría con fruta

22 de abril: Cinco de Mayo.

Today we reviewed some of what we have learned so far in class and continued working on our piñatas.

Next week we will start working on our conjugation of regular verbs (AR-ending group) and will review some recipes for our upcoming celebration: guacamole, salsa, tostadas, churros con chococlate and cranberry-grape juice "sangría"

If you could, please watch these two videos (piñata and Cinco de Mayo) before class next Monday.










¡Gracias y hasta el lunes! (Thanks and see you on Monday!)