It seems somewhat backwards that students of a foreign language tend to learn about the grammar of a language before they can actually speak the language. With our first language, we learn how to speak words first as a baby, then sentences as a toddler, until...
Year: 2015
Christmas Tree Ten Frames in Spanish
Much of what I do for Spanish lesson ideas consists of scouring the internet for meaningful learning activities in English, which I then translate into Spanish. When I began researching math curricula for my Kindergartner, I came across the word subitize, which...
That’s Not My Pumpkin: A Spanish Story to Learn Spanish Colors
Buy these here!What Could Be So Hard About Learning Colors? During a conversation with my sister-in-law the other day, I realized learning colors in Spanish presents some problems I had forgotten about. She said, "I noticed when we were watching a...
B de bruja {The Letter Bb in Spanish}
Next up! The letter B. Two letters in, I'm still finding words that can relate to the fall theme; today that's bruja and búho, or witch and owl. At our house we'll be using some drawing tutorials to learn the new letter and words. (For help with...
A de araña {The Letter Aa in Spanish}
For the last two Octobers we have done letter-focused learning along with many others around the internet as part of 31 Days of ABCs, hosted by All Done Monkey, and this year it's on a hiatus.** In its place, I thought we could have fun learning the Spanish letters...
Learn Spanish With Kids: Unit One–The Spanish Alphabet
Don't Give Up. Before reading any further: go buy yourself this mug. Drink your morning coffee or tea or lemon water from it each day for a reminder that--you got this! (If you haven't been following along lately go here to see what I mean by...