Canciones de Navidad

This week the Spanish students are caroling with some canciones de Navidad for other students in the school. We've been practicing the lyrics (and some motions!) to some popular holiday songs. Some of the songs we've learned are: Feliz Navidad, Rodolfo, el reno de la nariz roja, Cascabeles (jingle bells) y Mi hombre de nieve (frosty the snowman). ¡Ask a Spanish student for un concierto!

Here are the lyrics to Mi hombre de nieve:

Mi hombre de nieve

es feliz y está muy gordo

con la boca, la nariz, dos ojos

en la cabeza un sombrero

Mi hombre de nieve
es feliz y está muy gordo
con la boca, la nariz, dos ojos
en la cabeza un sombrero

Ta ta ta ta ta

Ta ta ta ta ta

mi hombre de nieve

Ta ta ta ta ta
Ta ta ta ta ta
mi hombre de nieve

Have a wonderful and safe break!!

el día de nuestra señora de Guadalupe

Today, el doce de diciembre, is a holiday for an important Catholic symbol in Mexico. Guadalupe is represented as a manifestation of the Virgin Mary in the Americas. Guadalupe is also a symbol of Mexico. Read below about Guadalupe's first appearance in Mexico in 1531,


"According to traditional Catholic accounts of the Guadalupan apparitions, during a walk from his village to the city on the early morning of December 9, 1531, Juan Diego saw a vision of the Virgin - a young girl of fourteen to sixteen, surrounded by light- at the Hill of Tepeyac. Speaking in Nahuatl, the Lady asked for a church to be built at that site in her honor. When Juan Diego spoke to the Spanish bishop, Fray Juan de Zumárraga, the bishop asked him for a miraculous sign to prove his claim. The Virgin asked Juan Diego to gather some flowers at the top of the hill, even though it was winter when no flowers bloomed. He found there Castilian roses, gathered them, and the Virgin herself re-arranged them in his tilma. When Juan Diego presented the roses to Zumárraga, the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe miraculously appeared imprinted on the cloth of Diego's tilma."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe