These two sites have online Spanish games that kids can use to practice vocabulary related to different professions. The first is an online activity with images of tools used by different professions and scrambled words. Players simply unscramble the word and type it in the blank using capital letters and, of course, accents if needed. I like this game because it only show tools to represent the professions and not people. Students have to be [...]
I have written about 9letras before, but with the school year starting I thought it would be a good idea to remind teachers and parents of this great resource. 9letras is a blog by Alberto Abarca Fillat of Huesca, Spain. Alberto shares educational material that he creates for teaching Spanish and his website has a huge number of printable activities for young Spanish learners. These are some of the features and pages that make 9letras [...]
These online activities are provided by the Spanish publisher Editorial Teide as support for their textbooks. They are designed for children in Spain, but many of the activities are also appropriate for Spanish language learners. These activities for Primer Ciclo (6-8 years old) deal with basic concepts, vocabulary and language structures. Some of the games are very simple, for example, categorizing objects as duro or blando. Others, like Viviendas diferentes use more language and would [...]
This traditional Spanish game, El juego de la oca, is a board game similar to Snakes and Ladders. Players roll dice and move in a spiral to reach the center of the board. If they land on la oca (the goose), they move ahead to the next oca and roll again, saying De oca a oca y tiro porque me toca. If they land on the bridge, they move to the next bridge and roll [...]
These printable Spanish memory cards and lotería game are from El jardín online, a site from Argentina. There is a set for professions and another set for farm animals. These cards are in black and white. Kids can color them, which is a great Spanish language activity, and then use them to play memory or other card games. Also, both sets of cards are in Word format, so that you can change the vocabulary if [...]