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| La Loteria |
This week I used a
traditional Mexican game called La Loteria. La Loteria is similar to bingo; everyone has a playing card and there
is a deck of calling cards and they use beans as tokens to mark down what has
been called. You yell LOTERIA! When you win.
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| One of the playing cards for Spanish 3 |
I adapted this game to my Spanish 2 and Spanish 3 level classes. I created playing cards and calling cards using their vocabulary words. I even brought in the beans!! I first shared with them what the traditional game was all about, and some of the traditions that go with it. I explained the rules and we were set to go. For the first round we started playing as a whole class and I was the caller. We played a couple rounds and I allowed some students to be the ones to call the cards. I also gave students options. For example, they decided what kind of game they wanted to play (fill the card, four corners, diagonal, any four in a row etc.) I also gave them the option to continue playing as a whole class or break up into two smaller groups. Some of my classes decided to continue playing as a whole and two decided to play in two smaller groups
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| One of the playing cards for Spanish 2 |
Overall, the activity
went really well. My students were engaged and excited, some more than other
but overall students seemed to be enjoying it. During my 5th period
class the students thanked me for doing this activity with them. One of them
said “thank you for coming into our lives, we usually just have to memorize
things. This was really fun and I actually feel like I remember the vocab
better”. It was super sweet and it reminded me that all the time and effort I put
in adapting and creating this activity for them was worth it!
It's so cool that you were able to adapt such a popular bingo game from the Hispanic culture into your classroom. I also think it was a good idea that you gave the students options to choose from, I bet the engaged them even more! I hope you get to do more learning activities like this during your full time teaching! Good luck next week!
ReplyDeleteI also agree that it was a wonderful to incorporate a game from the Hispanic culture into your classroom. What a great way for students to make a connection to what they are learning. Did all of the students get involved or did you have a few that were not quite as active in this lesson? If so have you found ways to get those students involved? Great lesson! Good luck next week.
ReplyDeleteWow these are awesome activities! Seems like you have a great grasp on managing your classes as well as keeping the pace with material up. Glad to hear its going well!!
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