Theme: Sports
Dates: July 6-15
From: Tanya

Welcome back to school!!!! It has been great to be back to see all of these smiling faces again! Your kiddos sure are missed here at NV! We had a fun-filled two weeks of summer school learning about sports. Below are some of the Language experiences, vocabulary, and language targets we practiced. I'm looking forward to continuing our last two weeks of summer school learning about restaurants while incorporating countries from around the world (i.e., Mexico, Italy, China, and America). "Oh the places we will go!!!"

Language Experiences:

• The teachers put on one of our "Made for Broadway" Skits! We introduced many different sports such as: Soccer, football, hockey, golf, baseball, tennis, basketball etc.
• We made sponge painted soccer balls.
• We made paper footballs stuffed with newspaper and practiced tackling and making touchdowns. Look out for some future NV pro-football players!!:)
• We made yummy basketball cookies...always a hit!
• We practice shooting basketballs and other various sports balls in different size baskets and cups.
• Our specials guests Henry and Sarah brought in their golf gear to let us examine and demonstrated various tips on how to play golf.
• We danced to the music!!! We hit the dance floor and practiced gymnastics routines! Great fun!
• We talked about the sport of swimming and various rules that need to be followed when going to the pool.

Vocabulary: helmet, baseball, soccer, football, basketball, golf, volleyball, whistle, referee, baseball bat, basketball hoop, golf ball, hit, swing, hockey, cheerleader, tennis, swimming, tackle, trophy, goalie, baseball glove, touchdown, win, team, bounce, sports, dance

Language Targets:

• Questions: "Do you want to ____ or ____?" "Are you ____ or ____?"
• Pronouns: She, he, his, her, they, we, himself, herself, myself
• Prepositions: in front of, behind, between, above, below, to
  
• Conjunctions: or, when, because