La Familia

Your Spanish speakers will look at each of the five pictures and choose which sentence describes it the best. Some of the sentences are awfully similar, so make sure they're practicing their best visual and reading comprehension! 

Young Spanish language learners trace the letters that make up common family vocabulary (madre, padre, abuela, abuelo, and hijo) and then draw pictures to represent each word. Consider having learners bring in a picture of their family...

To acquire new skills, kids need to practice at home too! Give native Spanish speakers this take-home assignment to help them learn words and their opposites. The examples given are day and night and cold and hot. The youngster works...

Give your class this school-to-home connection so they can develop skills outside of school. Your young, native Spanish speakers will tell their guardians three things they did at school that day. Then, each person signs the bottom of...

Your native Spanish speakers are learning how to improve their writing by adding descriptive words and adjectives. With a family member or guardian, they identify words to describe certain items, such as an apple. Then, after they...

Build oral fluency in your young, native Spanish speakers. First, an adult reads a short passage to their youngster. Then, the youngster practices reading the passage multiple times. Then, after they perfect the passage, they record 10...

Give your native Spanish speakers this at-home practice opportunity to reinforce descriptive vocabulary. First they draw their favorite animal, and then they create a short story about their animal. When the assignment is complete, both...

Help your young native Spanish speakers develop description skills. With this school-to-home instructional activity, parents will help their youngster write a story that uses details. Both the parent and child are asked to sign the...

Create growth charts with your young learners! This would be a fun activity for the beginning of the year, as you could continue to revisit the charts throughout the year! Also consider having the class make a prediction before the...

Learners explore the Spanish words for family members. They identify family members in Spanish and say the words for where people live. Students explore how say where people are from and they describe a family member in a poem.