This online Spanish game with native-speaker audio is a good way for children to practice vocabulary and listening comprehension while they are sorting, grouping and matching. Listening to native-speaker Spanish is also important for pronunciation. The set of activities is called Un poquito de orden and there are three temas (topics), each with several activities. Click on the link below to reach the online Spanish game. The site sometimes takes a little while to load. [...]
With these free printable pictures, kids find the differences and practice common Spanish words. These Spanish activities, Encuentra las diferencias, are from Minihogar Kids, the children’s section of El Minihogar. The puzzles are designed for native-speakers, so the solutions are in Spanish. Kids can use the words as they look for differences and then see the written Spanish words when they check their answers. There are three Hello Kitty scenes and two scenes with the [...]
Don’t these pigs looks happy? Talk about this great photograph to help your kids learn Spanish. The questions that follow, like all the Learn Spanish with Pictures activities, are ordered to help children master the vocabulary and gain confidence with the language. Start with Describe the photo (1), and be sure to point to the pigs as you talk about them. Use gestures, facial expressions and actions to help your child understand what the words [...]
This make-your-own online puppet show is a great way to get kids speaking Spanish or any language. Start by choosing scenery and characters. Then you can move the characters around and have them talk to each other. They automatically turn toward each other, and you can move them below the level of the stage. There are four scenes to choose from and four pairs of characters. This activity is on UpToTen – one of the [...]
!Qué globos bonitos! What pretty balloons! Use this simple activity to practice colors in Spanish with the photo of balloons below. For children who do not read in Spanish, you can make the path with crayons or markers so they can see and talk about what color is next. Say the Spanish colors as you follow the path through the balloons. Follow the color paths from the top of the picture to the bottom. Move [...]
This is a collection of videos to use in the classroom, and many of them are short and appropriate for children learning Spanish. The government of Chile makes these videos available on the education portal Educarchile. You can download the videos to use with children learning Spanish. You can also watch them on the site, but they sometimes load slowly. Downloading them is easy and then they play really well. You can find the Spanish [...]
OnlineFreeSpanish has added a section of activities on Spanish syllables and the first one is ready to go! I am excited to use these with students of all ages who are beginning to read in Spanish. If my students can already read in English, I delay reading in Spanish until they have a good sense of the sound of the language and a range of vocabulary and structures. This is because children who already read [...]
These online games are a really good way to practice numbers in Spanish. Kids match the number they hear to the correct number on the screen. There are different games for practicing the numbers to 10, to 20 and to 100. I like these games because of the audio. Children hear native-speaker Spanish, so they learn to pronounce the numbers correctly. I also like that they are not simply counting and repeating the numbers in [...]
Talk about this photograph of taxis in Mexico City to help your child learn Spanish. The questions that follow, like all the Learn Spanish with Pictures activities, are ordered to help children master the vocabulary and gain confidence with the language. Start with Describe the photo (1), and be sure to point to the objects in the picture as you talk about them. Use gestures, facial expressions and actions to help your child understand what [...]
The games on Jugarjuntos.com are designed for native Spanish speakers, but they work well with young Spanish language learners too. There are a variety of games with audio to teach basic concepts. These games teach Spanish language learners vocabulary and also model correct pronunciation. Online game with audio teaches prepositions in Spanish This game has a picture with a dog house and a tree. Children hear a location in Spanish and move the dog to [...]
Storybird is such an amazing resource that it is hard to know where to begin to write about it. It is a collaborative storytelling site, designed to let children, or anyone, write art-inspired stories. The tremendous variety and excellent quality of the art make Storybird a wonderful tool for teaching and learning Spanish or any language. There are endless ways that the beautiful illustrations on this site can be used as a teaching tool. For [...]
This online activity from Chateau Meddybemps is a great tool for teaching Spanish prepositions. There are four animals in a scene with a few objects. Children can drag and drop the animals anywhere in the scene including into a doghouse. As they play with the scene, they can practice using Spanish prepositions like entre (between), adentro (inside) and afuera (outside). They can stack the animals up to practice encima de (on top of) and debajo [...]