At the beginning of class, each student picks up a small whiteboard, rag, and marker. After brainstorming animal vocabulary in English, the students received a slip of paper with the animal word in English and Spanish. They wrote the Spanish on the board and then had about two minutes to draw the animal.
Next they opened their notes for the day and started passing the whiteboards. Every time I said "Pasen" the boards moved, students looked at the pictures, and put their guesses into their notes (since we have computers, they just typed in their guesses; pre-computers I would tell the students to use pencils only). It is always fun to see the illustrations and notice student guesses on the more abstract drawings.
After the pictures made a full rotation, we went through the vocabulary to practice pronunciation and check that the guesses were correct. For this part I had pictures of the animals to hold up as we said the animal in Spanish to provide another visual (many of these pictures were created by previous students as a bonus assignment).
My personal favorite from today...
I think next year I want to teach the students some phrases to say in Spanish in response to the drawings as they rotate around the room such as "What is this?" and "This is a good drawing!" I really like including the students in the teaching of the vocabulary; I have found that only giving the students a short amount of time (15-30 seconds) to look at each board is enough.
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