PUPPETS IN SPANISH CLASSES

 

"I’ve used puppets successfully without even hiding my face from the audience. Look again at the way I’m holding the little bear behind the Spanish language book in my blog pic above. When I make this bear – his name is “Bebe” – talk to my students (or campers, or church school group, or…you get the idea that you can use puppets in any children’s program) I look at the bear, not at the class.

" When I’m speaking in my regular voice, I look directly at the children. The children follow my eyes so when “Bebe’s” voice is “on” the children are focused on the little fur ball; they don’t care that my mouth is moving to make the bear speak."

(Barbara Cleary ).