[upbeat music] - Hello!

Hola, my name is Brenda.

Mi nombre es Brenda.

Today we're gonna be learning about each other, something about me, as that I speak English and Spanish.

Now there are many things that we can learn about one another.

Like what our favorite color is, how we are feeling, where we are from, things like that.

So I just shared that I speak two languages, dos idiomas: English and Spanish.

Let's learn five words, cinco palabras, in Spanish.

They are: Familia, libro, azul, feliz, and lapiz.

What about you?

Do you speak another language?

What about your familia, family?

Here, say it with me: Familia.

Familia.

Did I speak another language?

My mom taught me how to speak Spanish when I was little.

My teachers at school, they taught me how to speak English.

[playful music] It is really amazing and fun to speak another language.

What else can describe you?

What about how we feel sometimes?

For example, I feel excited, emocionada, when I read a book, but maybe you get excited when you go outside and play.

We all feel different things.

Some other feelings you can feel are: Happy, feliz; angry, enojado; sad, triste.

What makes you feel angry, enojado?

Sometimes I get angry or enojado when I lose to a game of tic-tac-toe, but then I realize that I am playing with a friend, and that I don't need to win in order to have fun.

What about sad, triste?

What makes you sad?

Something that makes me sad is not being able to see my cats.

I have three cats, tres gatos, and I have some pictures that help me remember them, so I get less sad when I see those pictures.

How about happy, feliz?

Say it with me, fe-liz.

What makes you happy?

I get happy when I listen to my favorite song.

Sometimes I even do a little dance because I'm happy, I'm listening to my favorite song.

There are many things that we can feel, and our emotions and so many other things makes us unique, unico.

Now what does unique mean?

Unique means that you are one of a kind, and that there is no one like you.

What are some ways in which you are unique?

What about the language that we speak?

Or what we can do, what we can't do?

Our favorite color, what our favorite food is, things like that.

Can you think of anything else that makes you unique?

What about where your family is from?

Familia.

My familia is from Mehico, or Mexico.

I was born in California.

What about the things that we can do?

I can do this with my thumb.

It's kind of gross.

Okay.

I want us to do an activity together.

I want you to get five things, cinco cosas, from around your home that describe you.

That means things that tell me something about you, like your favorite color, your favorite food, your favorite activity, your favorite toy, things like that.

I'm gonna go ahead and choose five things, cinco cosas, from around my home, from mi casa.

Okay?

You do the same.

[upbeat music] [upbeat music] All right, I got my five items, mi cinco cosas.

First here I have a book, un libro.

And what this says about me is that I really like to read.

Book in Spanish, again, it's libro.

Say it with me, libro.

Libro.

My next thing is the scrunchy, and it's blue.

Blue is my favorite color.

Blue in Spanish is azul.

Azul.

Azul.

My next thing is this little fidget toy.

It's really squishy, and it's also yellow, amarillo.

And I really like to use this one, I'm a little nervous sometimes.

[upbeat music] My next two items kind of go together, and they are this notebook, libreta; and this pencil, lapiz.

And they go together because I really like to write, and I like to draw in here.

[upbeat music] So libreta, and this is a lapiz.

Say it with me, lapiz.

Lapiz, pencil.

So those are my five items that say something about me.

These items, they are really special to me.

What about yours?

Are they special to you?

Why?

Por que?

Mine are special to me because they make me feel happy, feliz.

We all have different things that make us feel happy, but they might not be the same things, and that is okay.

Sometimes we might even like the same things, and that is also okay.

I have friends and family, they sometimes like the same things as I do, and that is always okay.

I hope you learned a little bit about me, and I also hope that you play this activity with a friend, un amigo; or your family, familia, to learn more about them.

It is really interesting to learn about other people and what makes them unique.

You will learn that everyone around you is unique, unico.

There is no one like you, you are one of a kind.

Let's review the five words, cinco palabras, that we learned in Spanish today.

We learned familia.

Familia, and here I have a little drawing of my familia.

There's me, my mom, and my three cats.

Familia.

Next I have libro.

Libro.

I also have here, next is lapiz.

Lapiz.

Azul.

Azul.

And feliz.

Can you show me with your face what feliz means?

Feliz.

Thanks, gracias, for learning with me.

Adios, bye.