Educapeques is an educational portal with lots of resources for teachers and parents. On the website, Editorial Educapeques of Spain offers games, printables, stories and poems for children. Many of the activities and materials can be used with Spanish language learners. You will want to explore Educapeques to find what best fits your situation, but I will mention a few materials that work well with kids learning Spanish. Printable Spanish Games for Kids This printable [...]
This Spanish song for children is called Invierno. It is by Grupo Encanto and, as you can guess from the title, it has lots of winter vocabulary. These are the winter words in the song: la nieve – snow las nubes – clouds el invierno – winter el frío – cold el muñeco (de nieve) – snowman la bufanda – scarf el viento – wind el trineo- sled The lyrics to the song follow the [...]
The school year is starting and many of us will be working with the days of the week in Spanish and the calendar. Talking about the month of September, children can practice questions, numbers, and the days of the week in a meaningful way. I wrote about the days of the week and the calendar last year, and this post has updated PDFs of the same activities for September 2012. I had plans to make [...]
The days are getting longer and warmer, and I have started to talk about spring in my classes. Here are a few helpful resources if you are thinking about the changing season too. La asociación mundial de educadores infantiles has a set of ten coloring pages of different flowers. These are common flowers and coloring them is a great way to brighten a room, learn vocabulary and learn to identify flowers. There is also a [...]
Chillola is a website designed to let children explore different languages. The site has lots of basic Spanish vocabulary accompanied by images and native-speaker audio. It also has a variety of printable activities. The vocabulary is divided into categories including numbers, colors, shapes, school words, animals, fruit, vegetables, food, the calender, weather, time, house, vocabulary, prepositions, and opposites. The activities for several of the categories show one screen with pictures of all of the vocabulary [...]
Kids can practice Spanish days of the week, months and numbers with this online activity. It is simple, but excellent for Spanish language learners. It teaches (or reinforces) several important aspects of Spanish language including: – the days of the week are written with lower case letters in Spanish. – the months are written with lower case letters in Spanish. – the week on Spanish language calenders starts on Monday. – the days of the [...]
Let’s Learn to Speak Spanish: Conversational Workbook and CD is a set of worksheets and activities by Susana Murphy, published by the non-profit One World Foundation. Susana sent me a copy of this book because she realized it would be helpful to many Spanish Playground readers. These activities are an excellent supplement to an elementary Spanish program. The book is also a great choice for parents who want to reinforce a school program or introduce [...]
I have been having a great time with the Whistlefritz CD, Cha, Cha, Cha -Spanish Learning Songs. This award-winning collection of songs for children has a combination of original works and traditional music in Spanish. Visit the website to learn more about the Whistlefritz Spanish CDs and Spanish DVDs for kids. The CD Cha, Cha, Cha is designed for children learning Spanish, but this is music that native speakers will enjoy just as much. The [...]
Do you have children starting Spanish in school? If you are looking for games and activities to supplement what they are doing in class, The Everything Kids’ First Spanish Puzzle and Activity Book has lots of fun ways to practice basic Spanish. Kids who like word games and activity books will love this book. It is packed with mazes, codes, word searches, hidden pictures and other puzzles that reinforce basic Spanish vocabulary and concepts. There [...]
It is easy to talk about the calendar and the weather in Spanish with these colorful materials. They are provided by the Asociación mundial de educadores infantiles and they are all PDFs that you can download and print. There are signs with the Spanish months and the days of the week. There are numbers for the date, both day and year. There are also colorful signs for the seasons in Spanish. My favorite part of [...]
I just watched the Whistlefritz Spanish for Kids DVD – Las estaciones. It is so well done! I am going to explain why I liked it, in detail, but I understand that some of you want just the basics and to know if the product is a good investment. The DVD is intended to introduce kids ages 2-7 to basic Spanish related to the seasons. María is explaining to her friend Fritzi the mouse when [...]
These Spanish poems for children are by Douglas Wright, a well-known author and illustrator from Argentina. He writes poems and songs and, in addition to his numerous books, publishes his work on his blog, El jardín de Douglas. He also generously gives me permission to share them here. I love these two short poems about fall. They are perfect to use with Spanish language learners. The vocabulary is not too complicated, and the rhythm makes [...]