Salsa Video Lessons-Grade 2

25 The Race (The Little Train)

26 The Goats’ Vacation

Episode 25 -The Little Train

Synopsis

Four trains- a red one, a big one, an old one and a little one (Señorita Tren) decide to have a race. The smallest, Señorita Tren, gets off to a slow start. But the old train stops to eat cake with Los Tres Osos and gets sick from gorging. Then the red train buys a book from Los Tres Chivos and crashes trying to read it. And the big train stops to rest and falls asleep. Señorita Tren wins after all!

Focus Vocabulary

• Adios (goodbye)                                        • El tren (train)

Characters/ Personajes - Perro (Dog), Tren Pequeño (Little Train),

Tren Grande (Big Train), Tren Viejo (Old Train), Tren Rojo (Red Train),

Doctor (Male Doctor), Doctora (Female Doctor), Lobo (Wolf), Armadillo,

Ratoncito (Rat), Niña (Girl), Mamá Osa (Mama Bear), Papá Oso (Papa Bear),

Bebé Oso (Baby Bear), Chivo Grande (Big Goat), Chivo Mediano (Medium

Goat), Chivo Pequeño (Small Goat), Todos (All in scene).

Episode 26 The Goats’ Vacation

Synopsis

Los Tres Chivos decide to take Señiorita Tren as their vacation transportation. However, their ten books, ten shoes and ten grapes are too heavy for her and they have to unload them. Throughout the trip, they have to go back for something they have forgotten. And, when they reach the end, Chivo Pequeño and Chivo Mediano discover that Chivo Grande has eaten everything!

Focus Vocabulary:

• Diez (ten)                                      • El libro ( book)

Characters/ Personajes

Chivos (Goats), Chivo Grande (Big Goat),

Chivo Mediano (Medium Goat), Chivo Pequeño (Small Goat), Trenes (All

Engines), Tren Pequeño (Little Train), Tren Viejo (Old Train), Tren Rojo (Red

Train), Ardillas (Squirrels), Perro (Dog), Perrito (Puppy) , Armadillo, Actores

(Actors)

Salsa Video Lessons-Grade 2

27 Super Armadillo!

28 The Great Ice Cream Robbery

Episode 27 -Super Armadillo!

Synopsis

The characters engage in great make-believe play.

With a handful of grapes, Armadillo becomes Super Armadillo! Faster than a speeding train, able to leap three bears in a single bound, he comes to the playroom to save the other characters from danger. With Salsa’s help, he returns a hamburger to the Girl, milk to Ratoncito, and unties Mamá Osa from the train tracks. And the mean old wolf (el Lobo) is vanquished.

Focus Vocabulary

• Las uvas (grapes)                                     • La leche (milk)

Characters/ Personajes - Perro (Dog), Niña (Girl), Ratoncito (Rat),

Mamá Osa (Mama Bear), Lobo (Wolf), Armadillo, Papá Oso (Papa Bear), Pez

(Fish), and Tren Grande (Big Train), Todos (All in scene), Humberto [Ardilla

(squirrel)]

Episode 28  - The Great Ice Cream Robbery

Synopsis

Mamá Osa and Bebé Oso board Señiorita Tren for a ride home. Three masked bandits (Niña, Ratoncito and the sock, Mosca) stop the train looking for ice cream. They finally get what they want on their third try, but Salsa tells the sheriff (Papá Oso), who challenges Ratoncito to an ice-cream-eating duel. The Sheriff triumphs when Ratoncito gives up.

Focus Vocabulary:

• Los Osos (bears)                                                 • El helado (ice cream)

Characters/ Personajes - Perro (Dog), Mamá Osa (Mama Bear), Papá

Oso (Papa Bear), Bebé Oso (Baby Bear), Niña (Girl), Mosca (Sock Puppet),

Ratoncito (Rat), Tren Pequño (Little Train), Armadillo, Monstruo (Monster),

Todos los personajes (All cast), Actores (Actors)

Salsa Video Lessons-Grade 2

29   The Red Shoes

30   Quiz Shoe III: Hiccups

Episode 29 -The Red Shoes

 Synopsis

The Monster (el monstruo) looks for new shoes to buy for the upcoming masquerade ball. At the shoe store the salesman shows him different colors of shoes, using a rap song. The Monster decides to buy a pair of red shoes. At the dance, the Monster dances with the Girl, until her purple hair is revealed and he flees, dropping one of his shoes. The Girl searches high and low for the owner of the shoe, only to find it is the Monster.

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Focus Vocabulary

• El zapato (shoe)                                        • Los pies (feet)

Characters/ Personajes - Perro (Dog) , Monstruo (Monster) , Niña

(Girl) , Tren Pequeño (Little Train) , Lobo (Wolf) , Chivo Pequeño (Small

Goat), Chef Loco [Vendedor (Salesperson) ], Ratoncito (Rat) , Armadillo,

Todos (All in scene)

Episode 30  - Quiz Shoe III: Hiccups

Synopsis

One more time, los Tres Osos face off against los Tres Chivos in the game show, “What is it?” This time Papá Oso has a terrible case of the hiccups. The Monster tries to help him by scaring him, and he tries all kinds of cures (breathing into a bag, holding his breath, blowing up a balloon and drinking water), to no avail. In the end los Tres Osos win, but Papá Oso still has the hiccups…

Focus Vocabulary:

• el agua (water)                                        • El pelo (hair)

• ¿Que es? (What is…, What is it?)

Characters/ Personajes - Chivos (Goats), Osos (Bears), Monstruo

(Monster), Niña (Girl), and Tren Pequeño (Little Train), Zapatos de Baile

(Dancin' Shoes)

Words  to review from previous lessons may include but are not limited to:

hola (hello), hasta luego (see you later), gracias (thank you),  pequeño (little), mediano (medium), grande (big), la mamá (mother), el papá (father), el bebé (baby), rojo (red), verde (green), azul (blue), amarillo (yellow), morado (purple), uno (one), dos (two), tres (three), cuatro (tour), cinco (five), seis (six), siete (seven), ocho (eight), nueve (nine)

Activities/Actividades

Color the trains.  Color each train a different color, cut up cards and use to make pattersn, play Go Fish, or as flashcards.

Opposites / Los Contrarios  Cut out flashcards.  Fold words to back of cards so that the picture is on one side the words on the back.  Match opposites.  Play Go Fish. Play concentration with the opposites. Make a book of the opposites.  Read the words with a partner.

Addition – Suma  Add numbers with flashcards   Use the words “más” for “plus”,” menos” for minus, “son” for “are”.  Tres más tres son seis.

(3+3=6) Have students make up simple math problems in Spanish.  Work with a partner, have your partner solve your problem.

Me gusta – I Like  Make a list of foods students  like or dislike (Use a T chart) Have students draw pictures of the foods ( no spelling), make up a sentence in Spanish: Me gusta la hamburguesa.  No me gusta la manzana.

TPR Hold Up Activity   Have students cut up flashcards and place in a baggie. Each student has in front of him or her pictures or representations of objects in the vocabulary. Student touches object or holds up object named by the teacher.

TPR Partner Activity   Each student has in front of him or her pictures or representations of objects in the vocabulary. Student tells partner what she or he has. (can be a card game).

Go Fish Card Game    Each student has his or her own set of pictures or representations of objects in the vocabulary. The student sets are combined to form a set/deck of images. Students then play Go Fish.

Seven – Up  See previous directions.

Zapatos Rap – Have children color and learn the Zapatos Rap from #129.

Review Numbers 0 -31 to be able to say all calendar dates

Dates in Spanish start with

the day, the month, the year:

10-2-11  is  el diez de febrero de dos mil once

Los números

0 – cero                    10- diez                       20 – veinte                  30 - treinta

1 - uno                      11 - once                     21 – veinte y uno        31 - treinta y uno

2 - dos                      12 - doce                     22 – veinte y dós         40 - cuarenta

3 - tres                      13 - trece                     23 – veinte y trés         50 - cincuenta

4 - cuatro                  14 - catorce                 24 – veinte y cuatro    60 - sesenta

5 - cinco                   15 - quince                  25 – veinte y cinco      70 - setenta

6 - seis                      16 – diez y séis            26 – veinte y séis         80 - ochenta

7 - siete                     17 – diez y siete          27 – viente y siete       90 - noventa

8 - ocho                    18 – diez y ocho          28 – veinte y ocho       100- cien

9 - nueve                  19 – diez y nueve        29 – veinte y nueve

Note: The pronunciation of the numbers with multiple words is slurred together. For example, veinte y uno is pronounced more like veintiuno; veinte y dos is pronounced more like veintidos; veinte y tres is pronounced more like veintitres. In other words, the final “e” is dropped to make one less syllable. However, if you pronounce all the syllables, you will be understood.

Math - Las matemáticas

(to) add sumar                        (to) subtract restar

(to) multiply multiplicar               (to) divide dividir

more, plus más                        graph, la gráfica

less, minus menos                     pattern, el patrón

fraction la fracción                   problem, el problema

1 + 2 = 3 Uno más dos son tres.

1 + 0 = 1 Uno más cero es uno.

6 - 4 = 2 Seis menos cuatro son dos.

7 - 6 = 1 Siete menos seis es uno.

larger than mayor que

smaller than menor que

more than más que

fewer than más poquito que

less than menos que