Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! This celebration begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico declared its independence on September 15, and Chile on September 18.
The term Hispanic, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, refers to Spanish-speaking people in the United States of any race. On the 2000 Census form, people of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin could identify themselves as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or "other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino." More than 35 million people identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino on the 2000 Census.
Check out these web sites:
Colorin Colorado - http://colorincolorado.org/ Colorin Colorado (este se ha acabado) is a web-based service that provides information, activities, and advice for Spanish-speaking parents and educators of English language learners (ELLs)
Comfm.com - http://comfm.com Links to live audio and video broadcasts from around the world. Choose your country and the type of station.
El Mundo - http//www.elmundo.es/ from Madrid, Spain. An online version of Madrid's daily newspaper.
Proyecto Sherezade - http://home.ccumanitoba.ca/~fernand4/ short stories each month from the Spanish-speaking world. You can even listen to some in MP3 format.
Hispanos Famosos(Famous Hispanics) - http://www.coloquio.com/famosos
Biographies in English.
Las Mujeres - http://www.lasmujeres.com/ Las Mujures provides resources on notable Latin women. (politicians, entrepreneurs, writers, singers, painters, actresses, educators, and others)
Quia! Spanish - http://www.quia.com/shared/spanish Online activities and games for learning Spanish.
On Wednesday, the preschoolers will be visiting the library media center for the first time to check out books. Each student will be able to checkout only one book at a time. It will be due the next Wednesday. Students who do not return their book on library day will not be able to check out another book until that book is returned.
Lee Todos Los Dias!
Senora T. Reiter
K-12 Teacher Librarian
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