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 [...]
Congratulations to Ashlee Resch and Maritza, the winners of this giveaway! I have two sets of Spanish activity books and picture books to give away to my readers. Each set contains two activity books (64 pages each) and five picture books. These are the materials in each giveaway: Cuaderno de vacaciones from Ingeniería Educativa – The giveaway includes two of these activity books (Preescolar 3 and Primaria 1). You can read the publisher’s description [...]
Tesoros de lectura is a Spanish reading program from MacMillan/McGraw-Hill. It is the counterpart to the English program, Treasures. As a part of the program, the publisher makes available a variety of support materials for teachers and families. Specifically, there is a weekly letter with activities to send home. Although the activities are intended for classes using the Tesoros de lectura program, they provide excellent examples and are a wonderful resource for teachers and parents [...]
The website Aplicaciones Didácticas has a collection of short Spanish readings for children. The readings have comprehension questions that can be answered online, or you can print the reading and questions. The 40 Spanish readings are not arranged in order of length or difficulty. Some of them are very simple and appropriate for many language learners, so it is worth reading several to find the ones that work for you. There are a variety of [...]
The vowel sounds in Spanish are essential to correct pronunciation and, of course, to learning to read. A song about las vocales from OnlineFreeSpanish and a printable Spanish activity book from Orientación Andújar give children lots of practice with Spanish vowels. The song La ronda de las vocales teaches children the names of the vowels, which are also the vowel sounds. It reinforces those sounds by using them in rhyming words. For example, children sing [...]
Kids learning Spanish can practice vocabulary and agreement with this photo collage based on the colors of the American flag. The common objects in the pictures are red, white and blue. Here are a few ideas for using the photos with Spanish language learners: – Read the descriptions. Try to find the photographs in the collage. (PDF below) – Categorize the objects by color. Find and name the red things, the blue things and the [...]
Talking about this photo of a little girl playing in the sand is a excellent way to speak Spanish with children. 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 [...]
Talk about this great picture of a woman on her bike 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 [...]
April is National Poetry Month and it is a wonderful time to share poetry with children. The rhyme and rhythm of poetry appeal to kids. They love to play with language and reading and listening to poems is a fun way to expose them to Spanish. One of my favorite poets for children learning Spanish is Douglas Wright, a well-known artist, poet and author from Argentina. He generously shares his work on his blog El [...]
These printable Spanish certificates are an easy way to recognize a job well done. There are lots of backgrounds and designs to choose from. You can also choose from a wide selection of things to award a certificate for, including participation, good behavior, achievement in Spanish, attendance, student of the month, student of the week, improvement and just general recognition. The certificates are very easy to make. Just scroll through the backgrounds and designs and [...]
I did this project with a class last week to explore las texturas and the Spanish words to describe them. The printable Spanish labels (you can download my pdf below) give examples of things that are smooth, rough, hard, soft, spongy and sticky. The kids found objects with those textures and attached them to a board with the labels. We talked about other things with the different textures and how objects can often be described [...]
“Y ahora, pon un círculo rojo alrededor del triángulo. Mira, ¡ya llegó tu comida.” (And now put a red circle around the triangle. Look your dinner is here!) I used to entertain my kids waiting in restaurants or before appointments with drawing games where we gave Spanish instructions to each other. All we needed was paper and pencils and the game passed the time quickly and fairly quietly. Below you will find a couple of [...]