These printable wheels make it easy to talk about the Spanish days of the week. The days are on the outside wheel, and the inside wheel helps kids talk about them relative to hoy. There are two versions of the inner wheel. One has ayer, hoy and mañana and the other adds anteayer and pasado mañana. I have to admit that I really do not like to teach the days of the week. I know [...]
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 [...]
Cada día de la semana (Each Day of the Week) is a song about the days of the week in Spanish. It is by Disney Jr. España and it is just ridiculous enough to appeal to kids. The video below has the lyrics on the screen so that kids can sing along. The song has a fun rhythm and once kids are familiar with the words, they will love singing with the video. There is [...]
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 [...]
Songs are a good way for children to learn the days of the week in Spanish. If they understand the concept of the week in English, they are learning new labels. As they apply the words to their daily activities they will learn the words at a deeper level, but songs are a good way to start. Here are two songs that work well to teach the Spanish days of the week. The first focuses [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
9letras is the blog of Alberto Abarca Fillat of Huesca, Spain. Alberto shares educational material for teaching Spanish and the website has an impressive number of printable activities for young Spanish language learners. All of the material is created by the author, and lots of the activities have pictures to help Spanish learners interpret the language. Many of these activities with pictures are designed for beginning readers. They also work well with children who do [...]
The activities in this post have been updated for 2012. You can find them here: The Days of the Week in Spanish – Printable Activities for Talking about the Calendar It is important that children learning Spanish hear and use whole language – language in a context with meaning – rather than just memorizing vocabulary like the days of the week in Spanish. Talking about the calendar, children can practice questions, numbers, and the days [...]
Children can learn lots of Spanish while they are focused on another task. These printable charts are designed to help kids establish healthy eating habits, but they are an excellent way to teach the days of the week in Spanish. They are also great for using Spanish food words. These printables are from Nourish Interactive, a site dedicated to promoting a healthy lifestyle. Each day, children color stars or a box to show that they [...]
This song teaches the days of the week in Spanish. It is from Los pimpollos, an educational television program from Peru. There is an official YouTube channel where you can hear lots of educational songs from Los pimpollos. As this song says, the days of the week give our lives order. Learning the days of the week helps children place events in time and understand routines. When they learn the days of the week in [...]
This is a free book of fun and practical activities for teaching Spanish to children. ¡Aprendo jugando! Actividades de Español para niños y niñas de 6 a 9 años (I Learn by Playing! Spanish Activities for Boys and Girls from 6 to 9) is available to download in PDF format so that you can make copies of the activities and games. Teachers in Spain, with the support of the Spanish government, created the materials to [...]