Dear Members,

While looking for materials and working on bringing a little bit of thanksgiving to my Spanish and Portuguese Classes, I have found a lot of translated materials which doesn’t show any identity with Hispanic Heritage, they were just empty translations of English materials.

That made me reflect about culture and how you can’t acurately translate culture and heritage because it is something unique.

I have then decided to bring songs, stories and TPR activities which carried the symbol of Thanksgiving, as an act of saying thanks, avoiding bizarre translations of Mayflower poems and turkey hunters named Pedro; we sang and acted row, row your boat in Spanish with the little ones, we learned food vocabulary while having a thanksgiving meal and we played bingo with items they usually eat on Thanksgiving and more…..

My main objective with my class was to show the children and adults who take classes at my company and with me, the true meaning of saying Thanks, Gracias, Obrigada…..

We finished each class with a drawing or card, made in class, which said thank you to somebody they loved. The children and adult really enjoyed the class!

Thank you for reading our Blog and Happy Thanksgiving!!

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Claudia Krusch

Director of CK Translations and EasyLearnPrograms