Welcome to our 5th Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Spanish Playground is honored to again be a co-host for this important…
The school year is winding down and a lot of us are looking for ways to pull together content and…
Music makes learning fun! Rockalingua is an educational website with songs, videos, games and printable activities to teach Spanish to…
Exploring art and artists provides a wonderful context for learning language. Although many of the artists we talk about in…
I am sharing Maya’s Blanket / La manta de Maya as a part of the Read Around the World Summer…
Learning about trees is an important part of learning about the environment and caring for the planet. With these stories…
When children tell someone about a story, describe a character, or say why they like a book, it helps them…
The Place Where You Live / El lugar donde vives is a beautiful bilingual book about places and how we…
My Peruvian son-in-law, Jorge, does a simple magic trick little children love. Our family was together in Mexico over winter…
There are wonderful activities available online that were not originally intended for teaching a second language. If you want to…
Feelings in Spanish are part of the curriculum of most elementary programs. More important, they are essential vocabulary for helping…
I am so happy to be able to share a resource for teaching language through cultural content to upper elementary…
Día de Muertos is a wonderful celebration. It has lots of color and fun and is also an opportunity to…
Most days, teaching kids Spanish is fun. Playing together and watching your children learn will motivate you. Most days, you…
The Pew Research Center reports that in 2010, there were 4.5 million U.S.-born children whose parents were unauthorized immigrants. The…
The Secretaria de Educación Pública (SEP) of Mexico makes many government textbooks available free online. These books in PDF format…
Raising kids with two or more languages is hard work. All of us feel overwhelmed at times and need encouragement…
Award-winning author Carole Roman has written a series of picture books to introduce young children to different countries and cultures…
These five short Spanish poems about fall are by Douglas Wright, a well-known children’s poet and illustrator from Argentina.
It’s Friday and time for the Friday Five. Use these easy Spanish activities with your kids or students. The activities…
I have used Cuadernos Digitales Vindel many times when I needed basic math problems or language activities and did not…
These nine printable Valentine cards are made for kids to color and give to friends or family. They are perfect…
Many of you are familiar with MisCositas.com and the wonderful collection of resources available on the website. In addition to…
These online activities are an excellent way for children to practice the colors, numbers, shapes and letters because all of…
The Noyo Spanish Vocab app for iPad is a supplemental vocabulary builder for beginning Spanish learners. It is available from…
Summer’s coming and it is time to give away a few products to help kids learn Spanish in the months…
“Y ahora, pon un círculo rojo alrededor del triángulo. Mira, ¡ya llegó tu comida.” I used to entertain my kids…
This group of cyclists is in Guanajuato, Mexico. Talk about this photo to help your child learn Spanish. The questions…
The new Whistlefritz DVD is now available! La Fiesta de Fritzi is on the Whistlefritz website with their other great…
These Spanish poems for children are by Douglas Wright, a well-known author and illustrator from Argentina. He writes poems and…
What is your ringtone? You might want to try something different when you hear this one. This idea is from…
Photographs are one of the best ways to provide a context for Spanish language tasks. With the visual support provided…