This past year in my preschool class we talked about opposites
(los opuestos) using the book Goldilocks and the Three Bears
(Ricitos de oro y los tres osos) by Ana Lomba. The new
vocabulary I introduced: grande - big mediano(a) - medium
pequeño(a) - small blando(a) - soft duro(a) - hard frío(a) -
cold caliente - hot First we talked about the words in Spanish.
I had three balls (small, medium, big), some cottonballs (soft),
a wooden block (hard) and then for the last two I used a bit of
sign language since they were pretty easy to understand without
using English. (With hot I did the sign and then waved my hand
in front of my mouth like I had just eaten something hot.) After
I felt sure the children understood the words, I read the book
aloud in Spanish - in a lively manner. (No need to read it in
English since it's so well-known.) What I like about this
version of the story is that Lomba simplified it so that kids
wouldn't get bored. The children would listen very intently and
look at the pictures just as if