"Beware of Dog"/"Cuidado con el Perro" Sign Free and Printable

BILINGUAL DOG/PERRO SIGN

Recently I received a request for this sign from a friend of my mothers.  

It's cute really that Mom as well as her friends think that I am particularly crafty...sweet really.  I am not really all that crafty, and my "works of art" will never make me rich, but I guess as long as it gets the job done the I am doing okay, right?!?!

Okay, beings that I have already created it I saw no reason not to share it here. 

This sign is more than likely going to be used outside, which means that it needs to be weather proof.  Lamination is the most obvious way to retain color (the sun will still bleach it over time, I suggest downloading the image when you go to print, or bookmarking this page for reprints when needed) and protect paper signs from the elements in general.  However, not everyone has a laminating machine or wants to pay some printing shop to laminate a free sign.  I have that covered!

A clear (at least on one side) gallon sized freezer/storage baggie is wider than this printout, but just a tad shorter.  NO PROBLEM!  This baggie, with a little (very little) work can act as a plastic coating almost as well as lamination (maybe not as classy, but it works great in a pinch or on a budget!), and it can be doubled for more strength.  I do recommend using two baggies!  

Directions for "laminating" this sign with  gallon sized baggies:

THINGS NEEDED:

*print out of sign

*(2) 1 gallon sized zip-close freezer baggies per sign

*scissors

*tape

Step 1: Take the printed out sign and trim off the excess white along the sided (skimming the sides of top and bottom bones)

(Here I have trimmed one side.  It will fit in the baggie now, but I liked the look of both sides trimmed.  It's up to you how much you trim, just make sure to trim it enough to fit into the bag.)

Step 2.  Slip sign into baggie. (Make sure that the face/front of sign can be read through the baggie, cheaper store brands seem to have clearer bags, but use what you have as long as you can still easily see/read the sign.)

Step 3. Flatten with your hand to remove air. Seal baggie.

Step 4.  Fold baggie around the sign for a snug fit and tape the extra plastic to the back of sign (making the baggie the size of the sign.) 

Step 5.  (this one is optional) repeat steps 2-4 by putting the filled first bag into the second bag (this is just for sturdiness) and following said directions.

Now it is ready to be hung on a fence, or door, or stapled to a post or stake...whatever you do with outside signs.. :)

PS.  This kind of baggie laminating can be used on my other signs as well...I'll link to them below.

BILINGUAL SIGNS FOR AROUND THE HOUSE

BILINGUAL YARD SALE SIGNS

Let's Talk Cognates For A Minute (Minute and Minuto Are Cognates)

Let's start with a vocabulary lesson:

cog·nate
ˈkägˌnāt/Submit
adjective
1.
LINGUISTICS
(of a word) having the same linguistic derivation as another; from the same original word or root (e.g., English is, German ist, Latin est, from Indo-European esti ).

cog · nate 
KAG ˌ NAT / Enviar 
adjetivo 
1. 
LINGÜÍSTICA 
(de una palabra) que tiene la misma derivación lingüística como otro; de la misma palabra original o raíz (por ejemplo, el Inglés es, ist alemán, est América, desde esti indoeuropea).

(Thank you Google for the definition and the translation!)

For those of us who have a really hard time learning either Spanish (for English speaking folks) or English (for those who speak Spanish) but do not have that much trouble with "Spanglish" this makes all of that make sense! :)

Many of our words have common roots, or simply sound enough alike for us to understand these "cognate" words outside of our own language.

I have found some great help in learning some of these words.  There are great for children and early learners and those speak minimal of either said language (Eng/Esp).

I was at bilingualteacherclubhouse.com today and ran across a post from Ana over at Ingles360 that linked me to her page and this great download link list for SP/EN flash cards, mazes, matching games, memory cards and more!  Find it here  -->  INGLES360  (If you scroll past the pictures you will see a little floweredy box that is the direct link to the downloads page.)

Then for those of you who may just want a simple list with side-by-side comparisons (and that you can print without using colored ink) I have found this very simply designed wealth of awesome-sauce 3 page list from ColorinColorado.org.  It is no nonsense and ready for printing directly from the link listed at the end of this paragraph and I am going to be using this one with the hubby!  Find it here -->  Colorin Colorado. (This one is just right click and press print if your browser doesn't just offer up a printer icon.)

FREE PRINTABLE "LEARNING THE SHAPES AROUND YOU" (BILINGUAL EDITION) FILE FOLDER GAME

Okay, for me this was a two-for-one project.  This is a game that helps to teach commonly found shapes (circle, oval, square, rectangle, and triangle), but it also teaches a few words along the way.  I love multi-subject teaching/learning tools!

The top picture is page one.  Page one is the focal page.  By studying the shapes, and leaving them (page 1) available to view, the player goes from pages 2-5 (one at a time) and matches the shapes from page one by pointing out the circle (or whatever the shape may be that they are needing to recognize) and saying not only the name of the shape (in English and Spanish), if the "thing" that is the shape has a name (the mirror is "mirror" and "espejo") then that is to be said too.  Some (probably most) players may not be at reading level to do this alone. Not all pages have every shape from page 1, and  one  has tricky side-ways shapes and new shapes that the player may or may not know yet at all.

(Other smaller pictures below "page 1" are from other pages of the game.)

LEARNING THE SHAPES AROUND YOU DOWNLOAD

Free Printable Bilingual File Folder Game For Learning Colors

File Folder Game Link

Let's start off with the legalities:

Sesame Works is the owner of all things Sesame Street, my sad renderings were not created by Jim Henson or any Sesame Works affiliates.  Please do not sell this product, or claim that the images included are "Sesame Street (anything)" for the purpose of selling any part of this download.  Yayaya.  Did I cover it all?  Cool.  Let's get really started!

 :)

..., I made my own game!

And then it went nuts!  It started as a simple 6 sectioned board/page, each section marked with it's own color.  I used the colors from the rainbow (red-purple) and then I made little "medallions" with character faces on them to match up.

That turned out okay, so I kept going...now it's a full game with 26 medallions with 4 skill levels, and now it's bilingual (Sp/En)!

If I had to give this an age range, I would say that this is for 18 months and up.  

PDF download file has 5 pages, one 6 section board, 3 pages of medallions and 1 page of instructions.

The instructions are in Spanish for this one, but it's simple: 1.) print,  2.)cut out circles (medallions) but not the ones from the 6 sectioned board! 3.) Match medallions color to board section colors.

Note:

**As the levels progress you will find that some medallions have more than one color or have "shades" that allow them to belong to several categories.  Grow baby brains, GROW!!!**

:)

!!UPDATE!!

I also have a full English version available, simply click the link below.

English Language (non-bi-lingual) Version

Bilingual Parents It's Free To Join Read Conmigo!

I was over at SpanishBaby today and I saw a link for a site called Read Conmigo (Read With Me) and they have free downloadable and printable books for their members!

I just had to take a moment to check this out and boy am glad that I did!

My little Dinky is now the owner/shredder of two new books that I just printed out!

There are more than 20 titles to choose from, and below are pics of the two we chose today.

The selection is for Pre-K through grade 5.  I picked these two, well, to be honest...the covers stole me!  I know, I know, never judge a book by it's cover!  But at Dinky's age (18 months), reading is more about quality time between the two of us and not so much on his ability to read...he can't yet, so that's a good that it's not based on that!  ;)

Anyhow; this is a free service for bilingual families and teachers which is kindly offered by Infinity Insurance.  

This is a site that I gladly joined!

Thank you Infinity for this grand gesture and for recognizing the needs of our bilingual families!  

CLICK ME TO GO TO "READ CONMIGO"

FREE PRINTABLE TEACHER APPRECIATION AWARD RIBBONS

For those of you who may remember be from Free Printable Fun For Everyone this is not a new topic for me.  I have mentioned (over at freepintablefun.org) that the end of the school year is upon us and that we should show some love for the teachers who helped to get us through!

I have created one piece print and cut award ribbons (the one's from the other site were paper crafts and had to be assembled, these are already complete.)  

Below are pictures that you can click on the corresponding links to download a copy to print.  (Though normal printer paper is fine to use, cardstock will be stronger and last longer as a hangable decoration.  As always, stay within your budget, use what you have, the cardstock is merely a suggestion!)

WORLD'S GREATEST TEACHER RIBBON

EL MEJOR PROFESOR PREMIO

You may be asking why there are two ribbons, one being in Espanol when we live in an English speaking country with English speaking teachers? (Other than the obvious, hence the term "ENGSPANOL" at the top of the page...)  Here is my response, "There are Pre-K - 12th grade teachers all over this great nation who teach predominantly Spanish speaking students every day!  And ESL (English as a Second Language) students (no matter what their ages, and there's age limit that I am aware of)  are in every city that I've ever been to."  So, supply and demand! :)  ...Besides that, there is a "www" in front of my blogs address which leads to to think that anyone one from the whole wide world can be seeing what I put on the "world wide web"...I would like to cater to them as well! ((cheeky grin))

Happy day to you all!  I hope that you will use these printables to thank your teachers, or thank them some other way...but just please do thank them...they work hard for you and yours! :)

--Stephanie C.C.

NOTE: FREEPRINTABLEFUN IS NO LONGER RUNNING PROPERLY.  THIS DOES NOT AFFECT THIS SITE, HOWEVER I AM TRYING SYSTEMATICALLY TO REMOVE ANY LINKS THAT ARE CURRENTLY LEADING THERE.  ANY MENTION OF FREEPRINTABLEFUN(dot)ORG WAS MADE WHEN THE SITE WAS HEALTHY AND MAY AGAIN BE ONE DAY...HOPEFULLY! :)  

Making "Figurative Speaking" Less Literal For Newcomers To The English Language

Let me first introduce a word that was new to me yesterday- idiom.

Merriam Webster defines this word as:

Main Entry: id·i·om 
Pronunciation: id--m
Function: noun
1 : the choice of words and the way they are combined that is characteristic of a language
2 : an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole <the expression "give way," meaning "retreat," is an idiom> 
- id·i·om·at·ic  /id---mat-ik/ adjective 
- id·i·om·at·i·cal·ly  /-i-k(-)l/ adverb 

Idiom is basically a figurative word or phrase used in common conversation that has words that should not make sense while being used together, but the word or phrase are popularly accepted to have a generic meaning that has nothing (or little) to do with the actual words used, ie. "Bruce is taking forever in the bathroom!" This does not mean that Bruce is stealing "forever" while he was in the bathroom (that just wouldn't make sense); it likely means that he has been in the bathroom for a long amount of time.  Another example is: "It's raining cats and dogs!"...you understand that it's raining hard..., but to someone who hasn't heard that before?!?!  So, let's help cut out some confusion! :)

I have a link posted below that will take you to a page that allows one to study commonly used IDIOMS and their meanings.  This is a great conversation builder, and huge confusion cutter! :)  Thanks Dave from Dave's ESL Cafe!  

Meanings and Examples of Idioms from Dave's Cafe  

Special note:  I didn't see a way to download a copy of this list to print, but you could left-click and drag your mouse over the text (list) to highlight and then right-click your mouse and choose the "print" function.  This may make it easier to use, especially if someone is trying to help another individual for they can have two copies, and also it's much easier to make notes on paper than on the computer screen! ;)   

I hope that this is as helpful for you and yours as I hope it will be for me and mine! :)