Algunas veces, no se me ocurre que no sé una palabra en #español. Puedo estar platicando con alguien y tengo que parar y pensar en lo que quiero decir.
Una vez, estaba leyendo un libro a una clase de segundo grado. Era un libro de no ficción sobre animales #bioluminiscentes. Discutimos diferentes tipos de animals y empecé con la pagína con…–vuelan cuando empieza a oscurecer…estos..puedes ver las lucecitas volando. Son #fireflies en inglés–les expliqué
–¡Sí maestra, son fireflies!–
–Pero ¿comó se dice en español?–
Otra maestra, confundida como yo, empezó a buscar la palabra.
–Ahh, luciérnaga!
Todos empezaron decir la palabra.
–Luciérnaga, luciérnaga, luciérnaga!–
Continuamos con el libro. Siempre tengo momentos cuando no sé lo que no sé.
How Do You Say #firefly?
Sometimes it doesn’t occur to me that I don’t know a word in #Spanish. I can be speaking with someone until I have to stop and think about what I want to say.
Once, I was reading aloud to a second grade class. It was a nonfiction book about bioluminescent animals. We discussed different types of animals and I started with a page about “…they fly when it starts to get dark…they…you can see little lights flying. They’re #fireflies in English,” I explained.
“Yes, teacher, they’re fireflies!”
Another teacher, just as confused as me, began looking up the word.
“Ahh, luciérnaga!”
Everyone started chanting the word.
“Luciérnaga, luciérnaga, luciérnaga!”
We continued with the book. I always have moments where I don’t know what I don’t know.


oh I love this story!!!! I teach ELD and learn so much from kids everyday! Thanks for sharing your new word!
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Thank you! Kids are so graceful in helping out with a new language.
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I am in the process of learning Spanish while working in a dual immersion bilingual school. I hear a lot of Spanish and am slowly starting to speak it, but I see this happen with some of our bilingual teachers too. We are all learning something new everyday. I just have way more to learn. 😉
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I got so accustomed to coming to a screeching halt, looking up words (or having the kids tell me) that they could see it coming. I have “the look” when the brain needs to upload a new word.
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These moments are the BEST! Learning is fun. BTW when did this little story happen?
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Irene, this was several years ago when I was at BBE. The kids would be in 8th graders, I think. Yikes! Time flies.
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