Educapeques is an educational portal with lots of resources for teachers and parents. On the website, Editorial Educapeques of Spain offers games, printables, stories and poems for children. Many of the activities and materials can be used with Spanish language learners. You will want to explore Educapeques to find what best fits your situation, but I will mention a few materials that work well with kids learning Spanish. Printable Spanish Games for Kids This printable [...]
These questions in Spanish are useful for all kinds of activities, including board games, classroom games or just asking each other for fun. Children learn many of these words and structures in elementary school. They also are familiar with the content. Of course, what kids understand will depend on their level and age. You can always reword the questions to make them easier for your students or children to understand. Una preguntita is a continually [...]
These Spanish questions are based on vocabulary children learn early in their exposure to the language. The questions include words for numbers, seasons, colors, animals and food. I use questions like these for all kinds of games and activities, including board games. Una preguntita is a growing collection of questions that encourage kids to draw on information they know to understand Spanish. Although some words in the questions will be new, kids use their prior [...]
This set of Spanish questions is based on some of the first vocabulary that children learn. The questions include words for numbers, body parts, colors, animals and food. I use questions like these for all kinds of activities, including board games and classroom games. Una preguntita is a continually growing collection of questions that encourage kids to draw on information they know to understand Spanish. Although some words in the questions will be new, kids [...]
Una preguntita is a continually growing collection of questions that encourage kids to draw on information they know to understand Spanish. These questions are perfect for all kinds of games and activities. Although some words in the questions will be new, kids use their prior knowledge as context to understand and answer. You can find a more complete explanation of using knowledge as context here and a set of questions for very beginners here. Be [...]
Una preguntita is a continually growing collection of questions that encourage kids to draw on information they know to understand Spanish. Although some words in the questions will be new, kids use their prior knowledge as context to understand and answer. You can find a more complete explanation of using knowledge as context here. You can find a set of questions for very beginners here. Be sure to check back for more question sets. These [...]
This time of year there are lots of plastic eggs around. If you find yourself with a few extra, consider making a language activity where kids match the two halves. You can put a sticker on one half and the word on the other, or a number and the corresponding word. Kids can also match synonyms or antonyms. I like making Spanish games for kids where they put something in the egg to help reinforce [...]
This is the simplest activity ever, but children produce lots of Spanish as we play and they associate the words with actions and pictures. This is a game I usually play with preschoolers, but kindergarteners and even older kids have fun with it, too. We call the game Busca, busca. You can play with one child, two children or a group, inside or outside. All you need are small pictures that represent a word the [...]
Listen to this short Spanish audio description of a common word and try to guess what it is. This is one of a series of videos called Adivina la palabra de hoy (Guess Today’s Word). Most of the Spanish audio in these short videos is excellent. The series is produced by a private non-profit from Spain that promotes the teaching of Spanish, the Fundación de la Lengua Española. In this video, two children describe a [...]
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London are beginning and they are great fun to talk about with kids in any language. The following resources provide information about the Olympic Games in Spanish. The information and activities are at a variety of levels and can be adapted for children learning Spanish. 1. Calendario Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012- This calendar shows all of the scheduled events of the Olympic Games. It is from El mundo, [...]
It is going fast, but there is still a lot of summer left to enjoy. Here is a list of activities to do during the remaining days of vacation and on into the fall. Kids can read the suggestions in Spanish, check off the activities they have done this summer and choose new ones to try. This Spanish list of activities is part of creating a print-rich environment for children learning the language. You will [...]
These photos of the American flag are a fun way to speak with Spanish with kids as the United States gets ready to celebrate Independence Day. You can use them for activities like these: – Read the descriptions and find the picture that is being described. – Take turns describing a picture and guessing which picture is being described. – Teachers can project the pictures onto a whiteboard and use them as a tic-tac-toe board. [...]