Spanish Curriculum for Elementary School: Conversa Books Giveaway!

48 Comments

• Cassandra

  Oct 1, 2012

  I am a first year teacher teaching K-8 Spanish. Needless to say, I am still building resources. I would be in heaven to have these books for my upper elementary students. They would love it!! They are so eager to learn more! Currently they are learning the parts of the body vocabulary. Crossing my fingers!!

• Karen

  Oct 1, 2012

  We homeschool so right now we’re working on Me gusta and the verb ser. Right now I’m cobbling together a curriculum using Paso a Paso textbook and other resources.

• Joanna P

  Oct 1, 2012

  My students are working on presenting projects on Spanish-speaking countries to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

• Kim K

  Oct 1, 2012

  My two kids ages 4 and 6 are in immersion/dual language programs at school. I am also learning spanish because I know they need to hear the language as much as possible. I have implemented a word of the day in our home and we also learn everyday activities and phrases through song.

• Laura Kelly

  Oct 1, 2012

  My students and I are working on telling time (in math) and describing structures of crayfish (in science).

• Maria

  Oct 1, 2012

  We got my 6 year old stepson a spanish tutor last year. She taught him a little bit of everything, numbers, emotions, shapes, animals, clothing, etc. Unfortunatly she moved out of state and since then my stepson has been begging me to teach him. Since I only know a little bit more than he does, we are basically learning together. We have lerned some food and conjugating some verbs in yo and tu forms.

• Katie Bushmaker

  Oct 1, 2012

  I’m a pre-k – 5th grade elementary spanish teacher. I am developing my own curriculum with pretty much no budget. THese would be wonderful! This week in the lower elementary grades we are working on colors, and animals. My kinders are starting a unit revolved around oso pardo, oso pardo (brown bear, brown bear). This awesome set of books would be awesome for my 600+ students!

• Katie Bushmaker

  Oct 1, 2012

  Oops, forget to say what my 3rd-4th graders are working on, we are reading some books to celebrate hispanic heritage month and reviewing our shapes. Getting ready to start a new unit.

• Jenny

  Oct 1, 2012

  wow…600+ students!! My days suddenly seem so simple!

• Elaine

  Oct 2, 2012

  I am a K4-8th grade Spanish teacher. I use TPRS with all my students, but I don’t have a curriculum for elementary at this time. I’ve been creating it myself, but this resource would be so helpful! Right now with elementary we are learning greetings, how to say the date, and colors, focusing on Fall with the wonderful resources you posted the other day! Thank you!

• Holly

  Oct 2, 2012

  I homeschool my three children and I would love more sources for them, it so hard to find them. Rigt now we are reviewing our colors and counting through twenty. We are also daily working on our calander, climate, and season charts in Spanish as well as learning fall vocabulary.

• Melanie

  Oct 2, 2012

  I am a pre-K & elementary Spanish teacher. I would LOVE these books! This week we are reviewing colors, and some of our songs while beginning days of the week and “donde esta” in combination with some rimas!

• Silvia Zaragoza

  Oct 2, 2012

  With my third graders we are working on describing ourselves, we will soon start by describing family members and saying where we are from.

• Rosario

  Oct 2, 2012

  I am a K-8 Spanish teacher and am currently juggling many topics for many grades. My 4th and 5th grade students are currently learning reflexive verbs. We learned how to tell time and say “a las”. They made a daily schedule where they wrote what they did and at what time. They presented these schedules to their classmates. It was interesting to see that many chose “Me despierto a las 11:00” for their typical “sábado”.

• Tonya

  Oct 2, 2012

  I have two boys in a Spanish immersion program at school. I do not speak Spanish myself, but I began learning and teaching the boys basic Spanish before they started kindergarten. I want them to become fully immersed in the language, so I am constantly looking for new ways to incorporate Spanish at home. Recently we visited an orchard to pick apples, so I took this opportunity to teach them about the parts of an apple, and parts of a plant (semillas, tallo, raiz, hoja, etc). We are also learning about the fall season, weather and the upcoming holidays.

• Karen

  Oct 2, 2012

  I teach at a small, private elementary school and I currently have ZERO resources (besides what I find on the internet or make myself). These books would be amazing to get! We are working on the Spanish alphabet, colors, and months of the year.

• Debbie

  Oct 3, 2012

  I am teaching a Spanish circle and we are working on body parts.

• Jan

  Oct 3, 2012

  I teach Spanish to grades 4, 5 and 6 in Canada. Spanish resources are very hard to find. We are learning to describe people and playing ¡Adivina quién es!

• Hilary

  Oct 3, 2012

  Our theme/topic of study this week is spiders. The lesson is centered around Eric Carle’s book “La arana muy ocupada”. This looks like a great resource! Thanks!!

• Taryn

  Oct 3, 2012

  I am lucky to be teaching at an elementary school that values langauge learning. However, it is a private school with a small budget, so purchasing materials is a slow process. My older students have been asking and asking for “libritos” to check out and read to their families. They would be beyond thrilled with the Conversa books! Currently, we are learning basic introductions, greetings, and farewells, counting and associated phrases, and colors. We are looking forward to starting our next unit on introducing other people, particularly members of our Familias. Muchas gracias!

• Christina G.

  Oct 3, 2012

  I am a volunteer Spanish teacher at my sons elementary school. This was our first week of lessons, we worked on basic greetings, colors, numbers, just to gauge the level of understanding for the students. This looks like a fabulous resource!

• Maria

  Oct 4, 2012

  Hola! I am a 1st -8th grade Spanish teacher at a small Catholic school. I would love to use the Conversa books as I have been very interested in the TPRS method! A few examples of what my students are learning include: greetings, colors, numbers, insects and songs for the younger grades. 3rd grade is learning about the seasons, months, and weather along with learning the song “Otoño Llegó”. 4th grade is learning prepositions and how to use them in sentences.

• Marisol

  Oct 4, 2012

  I teach K-3 Spanish and we are currently learning about feelings. Students enjoy making feeling faces with pumpkins out of construction paper. The Conversa Books giveaway would be a great addition to my Spanish resources. Thanks!

• Kate Remillard

  Oct 4, 2012

  I am homeschooling my kindergartener. Each day we discuss date/calendar in Spanish and discuss the weather in Spanish. We are additionally working on Salsa Episode #105 this week. Finally, we sing our Spanish songs about fall each day. We would enjoy giving Conversa books a try!

• Mary G.

  Oct 4, 2012

  My youngest students have been learning colors/numbers/TPR commands, while my 4th-7th have begun participating in and reading stories we’ve been creating from our vocabulary and PQA practice.

• Clarissa Kjersten

  Oct 5, 2012

  I am a K-8 Spanish teacher at a small Catholic school. I use a teacher created curriculum for K-3. Right now we are learning about colors, days of the week, and body parts. I think this would be a great addition to my resources as I build a strong Spanish program for our school!

• Christine

  Oct 5, 2012

  In our elementary program, grade 3 has just finished their first animal story describing animals, what they eat and like to do. In grade 4 the storytelling is continued, with students beginning to use Cuentame series. Additional resources would be great!

• Crystal

  Oct 5, 2012

  I teach 1st-4th grade and I am looking for new materials to implement. Third and fourth are currently working on present tense verbs, commands, and second, time and the hour, first is learning colors, numbers and the calendar. Thanks for this opportunity!

• Cindy

  Oct 5, 2012

  I am currently teaching my oldest high school level spanish. My younger children have been begging to do something on their level. These would be great!

• Jocelyn

  Oct 5, 2012

  I am a teacher of grades 3-5 Spanish. We have been working on basic conversation skills, the days of the week, the calendar and date, and now the seasons. As this is the first year of the program, I am also co-building the curriculum with the K-2 Spanish teacher. Any additional resources would be greatly appreciated!

• jean

  Oct 5, 2012

  This week my students are working on re-telling a story I wrote by writing their own version of the same story. They are also working on oral proficiency by sharing their work with others. Thanks!

• Kaylee Sanchez

  Oct 5, 2012

  I teach Preschool-6th grade Spanish at two campuses at a private, Christian school, and I am currently doing storyingtelling with 1st-6th graders. We are just finishing a story including the structures “habia,” “tenia,” and “queria tener.”
  This has been a fun story with student actors, a mini-stuffed chihuahua, a wig and plenty of humor! I have been impressed by the students capabilities in engaging in storytelling at such a young age, and I am excited for how far we can go together this year! Next week, grades 4-6 will begin reading the story we told in class.
  I have requested Conversa from my school since I have NO curriculum, but this year is extra tight so I have not been granted anything yet….I’m contemplating a curriculum car wash 🙂

• Sally Meyers

  Oct 5, 2012

  We teach Spanish at the elementary level and right now we are working on learning feelings and emotions to better describe how we feel! Also I have a class of beginners that is starting from scratch. 🙂

• Laurie Rubin

  Oct 5, 2012

  I teach Spanish 2 days a week at Bodega Bay School in California. 9 students in my K-2 class. 11 students in my 3-5 class. I’m enjoying Conversa materials.

• Vanessa

  Oct 5, 2012

  I am currently teaching Spanish to my son who is in kindergarten and my nephew who is in second grade. Every day we go over a word bank (shapes, colors, animals, foods, etc.), discuss school days in only in Spanish, work on a Salsa episode and do some reading. I would love the oportunity to give the Conversation Books a try.

• Vanessa

  Oct 5, 2012

  *Conversa
  Sorry it was the autocorrect

• Darcie

  Oct 5, 2012

  I am a certified K-12 Spanish teacher and I currently homeschool. I’m always on the look-out for new curriculum resources!

• Mikayla

  Oct 5, 2012

  My 3rd/4th graders learned el despertador, suena, and se despierta. I teach in a Catholic School so we also started learning the Hail Mary prayer.

• Erin

  Oct 5, 2012

  Good books and reading materials + kids = language aquisition. I am always searching for more to offer my highly literate group of elementary Spanish students and this series seems to fit the bill. We would love to try it out with our kids, and if appropriate, use it in the expansion of our foreign language program.

• Megan

  Oct 5, 2012

  I teach K-8 Spanish so I’m teaching a myriad of topics this week including seasons and weather, bedroom, body parts, likes and dislikes, greetings, food, leisure activities, and more!

• Rebecca Reid

  Oct 5, 2012

  I’m teaching the basics to my kindergarten aged son and a small group of 4-10 year old homeschool friends! We focused on greetings and the goldilocks story/words last week. Now we’re going to focus on making soup and learning vegetable vocab, etc! This sounds like it would be nice for as we progress. Thanks for the giveaway.

• Sra.

  Oct 7, 2012

  Gracias a Dios! Enseno a una escuela catolica. Me encanta su sitio de Internet. Gracias para su trabajo. En este momento, los estudiantes de K-8 grados estan repasando de sus saludos, los numeros, la hora y algunos verbos para expresar informacion sobre su mismo. Gracias otra vez a su sitio.

• Kristin York

  Oct 7, 2012

  I’m only half time at a high school but have 2 little ones. I couldn’t begin to count the number of times friends and acquaintances have asked me to teach a Spanish class for little ones – this would totally push me to action! Thanks for the offer!

• Christine Brown

  Oct 7, 2012

  I am a newly hired preK thorugh 8 Spanish teacher on the southside of Chicago. I have taught for many years in CPS, but I finally got the opportunity to teach what I have always dreamed about–Spanish! I work with children that come from very disadvantaged backgrounds and with no prior knowledge of the language. My principal is integrating the Spanish language program for the first time. This is an exciting adventure for everyone. The only problem I have is that I have no textbooks…actually no resources funded by the school (I was given a small box of supplies and the usual $100 expense for outside supplies). I am trying desperately to find something tangible in addition to hearing me speak the language. I am responsible for all my supplies, which includes all copy paper, crayons, construction paper, maps, decorations, pens, pencils, anything that one would expect to find in a classroom. I would love to have a book to use with the kids. Needless to say, I spent over $300 this weekend buying crayons, copy paper, pencils, and the like for the children. I wish I could do more, but I am a single woman with not much to spare financially. Please consider helping my students. There is so much they can achieve with a little support. Thank you very much!

• Maritza

  Oct 7, 2012

  With my second graders this week we are going to be finishing a little booklet they made about farm animals, Along with the ;booklet we are ;learning a song from YouTube “La finca del tio Ramon”
  Thank you for all the new ideas you are posting everyday in your website!!!

• Jeanne

  Oct 7, 2012

  I teach preschool- 8th grade. We are working on numbers, colors, animals, pronouns and verbs.

• Tracey Masters

  Oct 8, 2012

  I homeschool my daughter. I have degree in Spanish and would love to try this curriculum. We are currently using a thematic approach to learning the language. It is very important to me that she learn Spanish. We are currently learning about different celebrations ad verb conjugations. We sing, play games, have conversations, and read books in Spanish. I will often add in art and math speaking in spanish 90% of the time even though I am not 100% fluent. My friends have asked me to work with their children too but they vary in ages. This would be of great help. Thank you.

• Katie Bushmaker

  Oct 8, 2012

  It seems that many of us are in the same boat. Melanie-could you share what you used for your Eric Carle lesson? It feels good to know with the amount of people that are teaching “without a curriculum” that we are all teaching the same things 🙂