Animals, Songs, Verbs, Vocabulary 13 August 2010

In addition to using tener to talk about what we have, we often use tener to express the way we feel. These are phrases that we use everyday.  Use them with your child to model the verb tener in its different forms.
Comment on how you feel before you ask your …

 Animals, Crafts, Outside-Nature, Vocabulary 12 July 2010

This activity for making a butterfly from a paper plate is from Manualidades para niños; thanks to them for the permission to embed the video! Make this butterfly with your child and at the same time provide the opportunity for her to listen to and understand native-speaker Spanish.  Your child …

 Animals, Online activities, Outside-Nature 28 June 2010

This is a set of activities designed for native Spanish speakers to practice farm animal vocabulary and numbers.  The activities are simple and short, and they are great listening practice in Spanish.
There are three types of activities. There are two levels of each type of activity, but both are very …

 Animals, Body parts, Songs, Vocabulary 2 June 2010

Rhymes and songs are a wonderful way for children to produce Spanish.  The rhythm and rhyme help them pronounce the words. Also, reciting rhymes or singing they produce grammatically correct sentences. They learn Spanish structures and lots of vocabulary, and they have fun!
Cinco ratoncitos is a traditional rhyme that is …

 Animals, Songs, Videos 1 May 2010

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Listening to songs is one of the best ways for children to learn Spanish verbs and correct Spanish pronunciation.  Singing songs in Spanish they produce correct grammatical structures. This is the Spanish version of Five Little Ducks sung by the Brazilian singer Xuxa. Xuxa is very popular in Latin …

 Animals, Books, Colors, Vocabulary 18 April 2010

Reading a wonderful picture book is a powerful experience. Language, color, and ideas come together to create a world that captures a child’s imagination.  Brown bear, brown bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle, does just that.  Oso pardo, oso pardo ¿qué ves ahí?, …

 Animals, Colors, Photographs 6 April 2010

Look at the picture with your child. Read the questions that follow and answer them together.  Don’t worry about understanding every word in the questions.  You can often understand the main idea without understanding each word.  The ability and the confidence to listen (or read) for the main idea is …

 Animals, Videos 22 February 2010

This a wonderful video of a child making the animal sounds.  ¿Cómo hace …? (What does…say?) is the question that her mother is asking.  The answers speak for themselves!