Beginners Spanish – Laying the Foundation (ebook)
The ebook, Beginners Spanish – Laying the Foundation, is a book you can assign to your students in its entirety,…
Author: Gretchen Melo
El Puente Bilingüe Beginners Spanish Product Catalog for Teachers
Welcome! Here you will find beginner Spanish products I have created for teachers and their students, in list form with…
Spanish Lessons, with or without a Spanish Teacher?
This might be a very unpopular post… or not. What is a teacher? Someone who bestows information onto others? A…
El Puente Bilingüe Montessori Spanish Lessons – Week One
When you make something from seemingly nothing, to share that “something”, and witness it help someone is a feeling like…
Who We Are and What We Do, A Montessori-Inspired Lesson Guide – Introduction
By Gretchen Melo Friends, what we have here (below my logo) is an introduction to a lesson guidebook on which…
My Swedish Ancestors, the Hegemony of English, and Day of the Dead
“It is now 1985,” read my son, “and my grandpa will be seventy-eight years old. […] He tells of changes…
The Choice is Yours
Like many, I have been doing a lot of reflecting and self-evaluating over the past 6 months. I have stayed…
“Me” Inside of “We”
The United States is a unique country, and there are many qualities that make it so. One unique quality, which…
Finding Power in Inadequacy
I am not very good at drawing, but I do it from time to time. Sometimes I draw or doodle…
A Bilingual Bridge
Who are you and what are you doing here? No, not existentially. Literally. What brought you to this page? Was…