Listen to this short Spanish audio description of a very common object. Can you guess what it is? This is…
- February 1, 2012
- Audio, Colors, Food, Online activities, Pronunciation, Vocabulary
- December 1, 2011
- Online activities, Printable, Pronunciation, Reading, Vocabulary, Websites
Online Free Spanish has added more syllable activities. This set uses the letter m plus the vowels: ma, me, mi…
- November 25, 2011
- Body parts, Clothes, Colors, Language learning, Product reviews, Songs, Verbs, Vocabulary
Magic Spanish for Kids is an award-winning audio CD about a magical trip to Mexico. Two friends, Bobby and María…
- November 9, 2011
- Clothes, Colors, Food, Holidays, Online activities, Preschool Spanish Activities, Printable, Pronunciation, Reading, Shapes, Toys and Games, Vocabulary
This online Spanish game with native-speaker audio is a good way for children to practice vocabulary and listening comprehension while…
- October 24, 2011
- Product reviews, Toys and Games
Spanish in a Basket was such a treat to get in the mail! It is a lovely wicker picnic basket…
- October 23, 2011
- Preschool Spanish Activities, Printable, Toys and Games, Vocabulary
Bingo in Spanish is a good way to review vocabulary with kids of any age and it is good listening…
- October 16, 2011
- How to, Online activities, Preschool Spanish Activities, Videos, Vocabulary, Websites
This is a collection of videos to use in the classroom, and many of them are short and appropriate for…
- October 10, 2011
- Clothes, Colors, Day and Night, Fall, Greetings, Holidays, Language learning, Months, Outside, Outside-Nature, Preschool Spanish Activities, Product reviews, Pronunciation, Seasons, Songs, Spring, Summer, Verbs, Videos, Vocabulary, Websites, Winter
I just watched the Whistlefritz Spanish for Kids DVD – Las estaciones. It is so well done! I am going…
- October 7, 2011
- Día de los Muertos, Halloween, Holidays, Numbers, Preschool Spanish Activities, Songs, Verbs, Vocabulary
Los esqueletos, The Skeletons, is a great song for kids learning Spanish. It fits in well if you are doing…
- October 1, 2011
- Audio, Numbers, Online activities, Pronunciation, Toys and Games, Vocabulary
These online games are a really good way to practice numbers in Spanish. Kids match the number they hear to…
- September 25, 2011
- Animals, Poems, Preschool Spanish Activities, Pronunciation, Songs, Verbs, Vocabulary
Todos los patitos is a children’s song in Spanish that tells the story of a family of ducks that goes…
- September 23, 2011
- Spanish Friday, Values, Videos
I am participating once again in http://latinaish.com/ ‘s Spanish Friday. Join us! Hace unas semanas un grupo de amigos hablábamos…
- September 18, 2011
- Numbers, Preschool Spanish Activities, Pronunciation, Songs, Verbs, Videos, Vocabulary
This catchy song and video teach the Spanish numbers 1-10. The video shows the numbers as kids hear and sing…
- September 7, 2011
- Day and Night, Family, Preschool Spanish Activities, Pronunciation, Songs
Children learning Spanish will identify with Juan, the little boy in this song who protests that it is too early…
- August 25, 2011
- Preschool Spanish Activities, Songs, Toys and Games, Verbs
There are several Spanish versions of London Bridge, the British children’s song. In Spanish it is called Este puente va…
- August 24, 2011
- Fall, Months, Numbers, Outside, Outside-Nature, Printable, Reading, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Uncategorized, Vocabulary, Websites, Winter
As school starts and the seasons change, teachers and parents will be talking about the months of the year and…
- August 12, 2011
- Online activities, Reading, Vocabulary, Websites
El juego de Beenny (Beenny’s game) teaches children correct Spanish pronunciation, to read and write the sounds of Spanish, and…
- August 8, 2011
- Animals, Body parts, Clothes, Colors, Family, Food, Holidays, House, Months, Numbers, Online activities, Outside, Outside-Nature, Pronunciation, Reading, Vocabulary
The Diccionario Multimedia is from the Portal de Educación – Junta de Castillo y León. It has common Spanish vocabulary…
- July 27, 2011
- Animals, Body parts, Books and Stories, Day and Night, House, Online activities, Outside, Outside-Nature, Songs, Videos, Vocabulary
This is a song with pictures, perfect for the very littlest children learning Spanish. Luna has the words luna (moon)…
- July 22, 2011
- iPad Apps, Online activities, Spanish Friday, Toys and Games, Videos
Por lo general no me gustan los juegos. El ajedrez y los juegos de cartas no me interesan lo suficiente…
- July 8, 2011
- Body parts, Colors, Food, Online activities, Preschool Spanish Activities, Pronunciation, Toys and Games, Vocabulary
This is a set of four games to teach vocabulary. I think they are great for children learning Spanish because…
- June 27, 2011
- Animals, Books and Stories, Colors, Crafts, Days of the week, Food, How to, Printable, Vocabulary, Websites
I love using story sticks with kids learning Spanish. The pictures reinforce what they hear, and the movement helps them…
- June 24, 2011
- Audio, Family, Online activities, Toys and Games, Verbs, Videos, Vocabulary
In this video, two children are describing a common word in Spanish. The video is just one minute long, but…
- June 22, 2011
- Animals, Audio, House, Online activities, Outside, Outside-Nature, Playground, Toys and Games, Videos, Vocabulary
What a fun way to review basic vocabulary in Spanish! This video is by a speech and language therapist in…
- June 17, 2011
- Colors, Opposites, Position words, Songs, Toys and Games, Vocabulary
This is a popular Spanish language song and game based on opposites. Kids play it in lots of Latin American…
- June 12, 2011
- Adult learning, Online activities, Product reviews, Websites
Are you learning Spanish with your child? Have you studied Spanish, but would appreciate a chance to review? Rocket Spanish…
- June 7, 2011
- Animals, Body parts, Clothes, Colors, Days of the week, Greetings, Letters, Opposites, Preschool Spanish Activities, Pronunciation, Songs, Vocabulary
The songs from two of my favorite CDs for teaching Spanish to children are now available on iTunes. We Love Spanish…
- June 6, 2011
- Audio, How to, Online activities, Videos, Vocabulary
This is one of a series of videos called Adivina la palabra de hoy (Guess Today’s Word). The series is…
- May 31, 2011
- Colors, Crafts, Online activities, Videos, Vocabulary
This short video from Discovery Kids lends itself to lots of Spanish learning activities. As Doki paints a picture, he…
- May 16, 2011
- Numbers, Preschool Spanish Activities, Songs, Vocabulary
Me gusta contar (I like to count) is a Spanish counting song. I like this song because it teaches kids…
- May 6, 2011
- Days of the week, Songs, Vocabulary
This song teaches the days of the week in Spanish. It is from Los pimpollos, an educational television program from…
- May 3, 2011
- Books and Stories, Printable, Reading, Vocabulary, Websites
I am a big fan of mini-books, so I was happy to see that OnlineFreeSpanish has added a selection of…
- April 18, 2011
- Clothes, Colors, Language learning, Online activities, Outside, Outside-Nature, Printable, Videos, Vocabulary, Websites
PBS has launched the web-original series Noah comprende to introduce children to Spanish and also to the process of language…
- April 13, 2011
- Animals, Colors, Numbers, Preschool Spanish Activities, Product reviews, Videos
I was excited to get this DVD in the mail from The Bilingual Fun Company. What great work Jennifer Manriquez…
- April 9, 2011
- Opposites, Position words, Pronunciation, Songs, Videos
This is fun and effective song for teaching Spanish to children. The tune and the actions make it fun. The…
- March 30, 2011
- Songs, Toys and Games, Videos
This game, Pelota de ping pong (Ping pong ball), has a simple song in Spanish, lots of movement, and takes…
- March 28, 2011
- Online activities, Pronunciation, Reading, Vocabulary
is a set of activities for native speakers who are learning to read and write. Two of the activities in…
- March 23, 2011
- Body parts, Pronunciation, Songs, Vocabulary
Movement and music are valuable tools for teaching Spanish to children. Combining the two, children process the language at a…
- March 20, 2011
- Letters, Online activities, Toys and Games, Websites
The website OnlineFreeSpanish.com has lots of entertaining activities and games for Spanish language learners. For children learning the letters in…
- March 8, 2011
- Adult learning, Online activities, Videos, Vocabulary, Websites
I have had a few email exchanges recently with readers of Spanish Playground who are learning Spanish with their children…
- March 3, 2011
- Numbers, Position words, Videos, Vocabulary
Matemáticas en todos lados is a free Sesame Street Spanish language video available on Amazon Instant Video. It is Episode…
- February 25, 2011
- Online activities, Position words
This activity involves listening to instructions that describe a location and then clicking on the object in that location. Native…
- February 7, 2011
- Holidays, Pronunciation, Songs, Valentine's Day, Videos, Vocabulary
My kids learned a lot of Spanish through popular music. When they were small, we listened to music in Spanish…
- January 29, 2011
- Preschool Spanish Activities, Product reviews, Pronunciation, Songs, Vocabulary, Websites
I recently wrote about a song to teach children the vowel sounds in Spanish. The song A,E,I,O,U is by Carolina…
- January 27, 2011
- Body parts, Online activities, Preschool Spanish Activities, Pronunciation, Toys and Games, Vocabulary, Websites
This is a great set of online activities for introducing the body parts in Spanish or for focused practice with…
- January 19, 2011
- How to, Language learning, Preschool Spanish Activities, Product reviews, Pronunciation, Songs
In English, we associate learning vowel sounds with learning to read. However, children who are learning Spanish should learn the…
- January 11, 2011
- Songs, Toys and Games, Vocabulary
The game I Spy is Veo, veo in Spanish, and it begins with a simple rhyme – a question-answer exchange…
- December 17, 2010
- Animals, Books and Stories, Online activities, Vocabulary
This online story is an unusual version of Los tres cerditos (The Three Little Pigs) meant for native Spanish speakers…
- December 11, 2010
- Language learning, Poems, Songs, Verbs, Vocabulary
There are two past tenses in Spanish, the preterite and the imperfect, and in order to use them correctly, Spanish…
Language and culture are inseparable. The Catholic church has a strong presence in Spanish-speaking countries, and many traditions center around…
- November 28, 2010
- Family, Language learning, Product reviews, Videos, Vocabulary
Movies and television are excellent sources of authentic language for children and teens learning Spanish. Young people all over the…
- November 13, 2010
- Outside-Nature, Poems, Reading, Verbs, Vocabulary
Spanish poems to use in an elementary language classroom can be hard to find. One of my favorite resources is…
Congratulations to Luis Pescetti for his Latin Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album! He is such a talented performer –…
- November 8, 2010
- Animals, Books and Stories, Online activities, Pronunciation, Vocabulary
Children learning Spanish as a second language, or in minority language situations, get most of their exposure to the language…
- November 4, 2010
- Animals, Body parts, Songs, Videos, Vocabulary, Websites
For children learning Spanish, music is a wonderful source of language and culture. In the case of Luis Pescetti’s songs…
- October 26, 2010
- Body parts, Songs, Verbs, Vocabulary
Children need to hear the past tenses in Spanish over and over before they can use them. There are two…
- October 15, 2010
- Body parts, Online activities, Vocabulary
These activities for learning body parts are part of the website created by the Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas which is…
- October 6, 2010
- Playground, Poems, Pronunciation, Toys and Games
Spanish rhymes, like eeny-meeny-miny-mo in English, are an easy way to add Spanish to your home or classroom. These are…
- October 4, 2010
- Animals, Books and Stories, Online activities, Questions, Verbs, Vocabulary
Traditional features of many picture books make them excellent Spanish-language learning tools. For example, illustrations that support the Spanish text…
- October 1, 2010
- Body parts, Preschool Spanish Activities, Songs, Verbs, Vocabulary
Saco una manito (I take out one hand) is one of the first songs that many Spanish-speaking children learn. Even…