Bingo in Spanish is a good way to review vocabulary with kids of any age and it is good listening practice, too. There are lots of printable bingo games online, but this version with pictures of common words is great for children learning Spanish. The game is made available by the Asociación Mundial de Educadores Infantiles. There are only eight pictures on each card and you play until the whole card is covered. The cards [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recognizing patterns is an important pre-math and pre-reading skill for children. Talking about patterns is also a valuable language activity for kids learning Spanish. The word for patterns is secuencias in Spanish. Secuencias are an easy and fun way to practice vocabulary. There is a lot of repetition and even if the patterns are easy, kids have fun with them. There is also enough language involved that children work with common verbs like seguir (to [...]
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 [...]
As school starts and the seasons change, teachers and parents will be talking about the months of the year and the calendar. This activity from El hada de papel is great for teaching and talking about the seasons and the months. It is a round calendar of the seasons in Spanish and it is pretty, easy to make, and easy to understand. I like this activity because kids draw a tree for each season, helping [...]
I love the first days of class! It is exciting to be back, and it is an opportunity to get everyone off to a good start. Starting back, I try to use activities where kids are sharing information about themselves in Spanish. I create activities that use familiar vocabulary, have pictures, and are structured to let kids hear and then produce Spanish. Talking about things they like with gustar, kids can share personal information, either [...]
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 [...]
Posters in Spanish are one of the easiest ways to add Spanish text to a child’s world. Posters are easy to change and move, so that children continue to notice them. You can make your own posters in Spanish at home, make them online or buy them. Read more about creating a text-rich environment for children learning Spanish here. There are plenty of advantages to making your own Spanish language posters. Most important, you can [...]
You might be familiar with Wordle, the really fun website that makes word clouds with any text. Wordle is a great tool for adding Spanish to any space. The program works with individual words, so to make it an effective tool for children learning Spanish you will need to use related vocabulary and add context. You can add context by making a Wordle to describe a photograph and displaying them together. Another option is to [...]