Spanish 1 and 2 students both participated in World Read Aloud Day on March 9th. We read to elementary schools in and outside of our school district, including classes in Wall Lake, Sac, Rockwell City, Pomeroy, and Bellevue.
Spanish 1 students read bilingual books in both English and Spanish. Since Spanish 2 students already wrote bilingual stories, they read those. Instead of traveling, we used the program Skype and made video calls to the other teacher's classroom. Students were a bit nervous at first, but had so much fun once we started. The classrooms we called really enjoyed having the "Big Kids" read to them! I think our favorites were when we could see the kids on the other end and actually talk / wave at them.
When I asked the students if they want to Skype again and how often, responses were: "YES!" "Once a quarter", "Once a month", "Every day!"....
Safe to say that World Read Aloud Day was a hit and we will be Skyping again in the future!
