I want to remind all of my students that learning French or Spanish requires you to make a connection between what you already know (English or another language) and what you are trying to remember (the new language).
You can do this in many ways, but making effective connections is unique to each learner. Some people make connections through images, others need words, and some need actions, songs, or the act of writing. The other part that is individualized is the background knowledge each of us uses to "hang" our new facts on. It takes some time and thought, but each student has to experiment with what helps cement new facts into their memory.
Today in class, my students explored a couple of ways to make this happen. We are preparing for their chapter tests tomorrow and Wednesday. As part of that review, we used acrostic poems, drawing pictures, and making up songs- or listening to songs that come along with our textbook. Students can access these songs through their online textbooks.
One of the Spanish acrostic poems was for the season of winter. Here's the poem.
wInter
sNow
Very cold
skiIng
icE
Reindeer
wiNd
snOwdays
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