# Art box project! ¡Proyecto de la caja de arte! **SUPPLIES NEEDED** - printed activity sheets - crayons or colored pencil - scissors; glue stick **WHAT TO PRACTICE** Make an art box where you can store all your paper artwork! Color in and cut out the sign for your art box. Pick a box that is big enough to lay your papers flat, like a large shoe box. Make sure you always put your completed artwork away in the box for safe keeping. **Weekend Project:** Find a way to make a fun game out of cleaning. It might be using a timer to try to beat-the-clock, rolling dice to find out what chore each person gets, or doing it as imaginative play. Included in this lesson: Art box activity sheet **NOTE TO GROWN UPS** Once you create a game that works well for your family, stick to it! Consistency is key in building new routines at home. # Download Activity Sheet: \Download PDF](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/60f5a89e108c2683c870592d/6142e938df40520322100935_23-Art-Box.pdf) TAGS - Animals - Art - Customs - Food - Geography - History - Music & Dance # Ask a Bilingual Expert Raising a bilingual child? On this page, our very own Director of Learning Design and Efficacy, Sophia Espinoza, addresses some of the most common questions, concerns, and curiosities around the benefits of bilingualism. **Get the scoop below!** Sophia Espinoza is a career educator and curriculum designer with seven years of experience teaching in private and independent schools across the country. She is an expert in 21st-century education, including technologically-powered personalization, multilingual and multicultural curriculums, and social-emotional learning. ### Benefits of Bilingualism (FAQs): - **Any advice on managing two Spanish dialects in the household?** Now that our world is more interconnected than ever, there are plenty of families where each parent could be from a different country in Latin America, with distinctive dialects, vocabulary, slang, and culture. And that’s totally ok for kids to be exposed to. Their perspectives are broadened and they learn to communicate cross-culturally, it’s a thing to be celebrated. - **What do you recommend if I’m not completely fluent and my child’s school doesn’t have an immersion class?** I always encourage as much Spanish exposure as possible. Don’t worry about immersion classes availability or not being completely fluent as a parent. Use the Spanish you know, even if you may need to speak Spanglish... - **Do you recommend teaching different subjects in different languages?** Parents who live in an English-speaking country need to remember that children are always going to learn English; their world is in English, their peers speak English. However, it’s important to give kids as much education as possible in the home in Spanish. - **How can my child learn language through play?** Play-based learning in children aged PreK/K should take the form of pretend play... - **What are the social and cultural benefits of bilingualism?** Learning a new language goes hand in hand with learning about that language’s culture... - **What are some cognitive benefits of bilingualism?** By introducing your child to a second language early, you are giving them the chance to access the cognitive benefits to being bilingual. Research shows that bilingual brains have better executive functioning in for instance focus and working memory.