The Color Monster (El Monstruo de los Colores)
In this unit, students combine traditional story-telling with technology to create a digital storybook about a monster. Using the book, The Color Monster: A Pop-Up Book of Feelings (El monstruo de los colores), students learn about emotions in Spanish and apply this knowledge to write a story of their own. Each student develops a monster character, scripts a story about it, and designs a puppet to perform in a mini-theater and feature in the culminating digital storybook. Although the plan is written to teach Spanish standards, it can easily be modified to teach English Language Arts standards.
The Color Monster (El Monstruo de los Colores)
In this unit, students combine traditional story-telling with technology to create a digital storybook about a monster. Using the book, The Color Monster: A Pop-Up Book of Feelings (El monstruo de los colores), students learn about emotions in Spanish and apply this knowledge to write a story of their own. Each student develops a monster character, scripts a story about it, and designs a puppet to perform in a mini-theater and feature in the culminating digital storybook. Although the plan is written to teach Spanish standards, it can easily be modified to teach English Language Arts standards.
English Arts
Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how the beginning introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending concludes the action.
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Fine Arts
Participate in appropriate exhibition(s) of works of art to develop identity of self as artist.
Mathematics
Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
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About the Teacher
Claudia Fitzwater
Drew Charter School
Claudia Fitzwater is currently a kindergarten through fifth grade Spanish Teacher at Drew Charter School in Atlanta, GA. Ms. Fitzwater holds a Bachelor’s in Foreign Languages from Santiago de Cali University and a Master’s in Education Leadership, technology concentration from Kennesaw State University. Ms. Fitzwater enjoys teaching STEAM and believes that teaching a language should provide real situations to communicate to solve real problems. She prefers to think about her class as SSTEAM (Spanish, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
