Many of you are familiar with MisCositas.com and the wonderful collection of resources available on the website. In addition to thematic units, videos and other resources, the site offers a set of illustrated Spanish words and phrases that are commonly used in the classroom. These printable words and phrases can be colored and hung in the room or adapted to different activities. This set of Passwords Perfectos, as they are called on MisCositas.com, includes common [...]
Los pollitos is a printable story and coloring book of a traditional children’s song. In addition to the story-coloring pages, it has figures for stick puppets, picture cards for games and a teacher and parent guide with ideas for using the material and additional activities. The song is available to download from Music with Sara, and there is a YouTube video of the song with the illustrations. I had a wonderful time collaborating with illustrator [...]
These free Spanish coloring pages from Song School Spanish include lots of basic vocabulary. The pictures are big, clear and labeled in Spanish. There are pictures for many common nouns related to topics like food, animals, weather and the parts of the body. There are also sheets for numbers and colors. In addition to common nouns, there are Spanish coloring sheets for the question words, emotions and most common verbs forms, like tengo, tienes, quiero [...]
Teaching words as opposites, antónimos or opuestos, increases a child’s Spanish vocabulary. The relationship between the two concepts helps kids understand both words. There are lots of activities that you can do with opposites. The ones I mention work with my printables, or you can easily make your own cards with different vocabulary. If the vocabulary is new to your child or students, you will want to start with just a few pairs. You can [...]
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 [...]
These printable Spanish lacing cards are a hit with students, especially the ones who do best with hands-on activities. The cards are basically matching or fill-in-the-blank exercises, but kids do them by lacing string or yarn to join the two columns. If they lace the cards correctly, the yarn on the back of the card matches the lines. These are not preschool lacing cards. One of the cards focuses on colors and animals. The order [...]
I mentioned on Facebook that I had other printable puzzles with scrambled pictures that can be used to practice Spanish. That was after I wrote this post about using scrambled pictures with Spanish language learners. I have a had a few requests to post the other puzzles, and also a request for the easiest way to add content. Here are two more puzzles with pictures of a house and of sunflowers. The puzzles and boards [...]
These printable puzzles are short, self-checking vocabulary or reading exercises. Kids cut the scrambled puzzle apart. Then, they match the words on the pictures to the spaces on the board and glue down the squares. If they have the right answers, the squares will be in the right places to make the picture. The picture helps sort out the answers they are not sure of. You can use these puzzles with any content. When I [...]
I am in Peru enjoying time with family and in just a few days we will be ringing in the New Year with friends, fireworks and a variety of New Years traditions. If you are celebrating the New Year with children learning Spanish, or talking about el Año Nuevo with a class, you might want to share the tradition of eating twelve grapes at midnight, just as the New Year begins. This custom started in [...]
The American Academy of Pediatrics published these New Year Resolutions in Spanish and English in 2010. In addition to being really good goals for the coming year, they are great material for language activities for children learning Spanish. I have suggested activities below including printable cards for playing memory. These Spanish New Year propósitos focus on staying healthy and safe. They are grouped by ages: preschool, 5-12 and over 13. The resolutions are about daily [...]
The page, Ayudas Gráficas, has an great collection of printable graphic organizers in Spanish. Graphic organizers are an excellent tool to use with all learners, but they have particular advantages with children working to master a second language. – Graphic organizers are an effective way to assemble the vocabulary students need to write or talk about a topic. – As children organize information visually, they write key vocabulary and see the relationship to other terms. [...]
These printable Spanish alphabet cards from Mr. Printables are free to download for personal and classroom use. I make a lot of my own simple printables, but I am limited to clip art because I have no artistic ability. These cards are cute, with pretty colors that kids will love. Just click on the link below and scroll down to download the pdf. Link to Printable Spanish Alphabet Cards Spanish Alphabet cards from Mr. [...]