Middle school spanish activities

Back to school procedures are important to establish during the first day of school. Help students develop routines and procedures in your Spanish class for excellent classroom management strategies. These are 5 simple & easy classroom management strategies, routines, and procedures that I use in my middle school Spanish class and with high school students to maintain order and maximize learning. Low prep & stress free! Read this blog article for more details! #Spanishteachers #WLteachers

This blog article provides a detailed explanation for the first day of spanish class with middle school students. Includes ideas for seating arrangements, introducing cognates in Spanish, and how to gets kids speaking Spanish on the first day of class! Also includes free lesson plans for the first week of class with middle school students (grade 6,7,8) and high school Spanish I students in grades 9 or 10. Interactive, fun first day of Spanish class without just going over rules. Back to…

Taco Tuesday is one of my FAVORITE games to play each year! This competitive activity is designed with middle and high school Spanish students in mind, but I have seen it played at lower levels as well! This tutorial post will talk you through game prep, gameplay, and various differentiation ideas to try with all of your language learners. Editable templates are available, as well as pre-made game sets. Digital options are ready now too! Click through to learn more!

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 – October 15! As Spanish teachers, we get to celebrate it all year long! Before we begin a month of celebrating Latino heritage, let’s provide context. Do your beginning Spanish students know where Spanish is spoken? Teaching Spanish-speaking countries is a fun way to get students ready for HHM. Here are 5 activities to learn names of 21 Hispanic countries. Add them to lesson plans for upper elementary, middle school, & high school Spanish classes.

No textbook? No problem. Here is a typical scope and sequence for Spanish 1 (Spanish I) in a middle school or high school classroom. Includes year long Spanish lesson plans with games, activities, notes, vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening, speaking, integrated technology, culture, homework, assessments, tests, quizzes, & projects. Take the guess work out of Spanish lesson plans with an easy to follow teacher guide that focuses on all thematic units taught in a Spanish 1 class!

{Affiliate links used.} I am closing out the school year with my Spanish lessons and wanted a way to review the vocabulary we have been working on. I came across on Pinterest a post about Kaboom! It was created for elementary classrooms, but I thought it would be perfect for language learners also! So here is how you go about it: First of all you will need... Jumbo Craft Sticks Sharpie Markers Cups (Not see through) Since I work with a lot of different levels of students I had several…

Spanish Interactive Notebooks If you've read my posts on teaching Spanish without a textbook, you know I've moved away from teaching explicit grammar. I don't introduce verb charts until at least December, and every year that gets later. For the first part of the year, our grammar section sits empty. This is because students are acquiring grammar structures through comprehensible input, even when they don't know it. Our 'class content' section is chock-full of grammar. It's just not…

Adolescence is a complex and interesting stage of life. It may be challenging to maintain teens’ interest in their Spanish classes. Here are a few helpful tips to keep in mind as you integrate Spanish vocabulary activities for high school into your lessons. To learn more, visit our blog post.

Are you struggling to teach Spanish writing to your students? If your Spanish students are writing short, choppy first-grade level sentences, try using Spanish writing templates to dramatically improve and formalize their writing. If this is happening in your class, you're not alone. Many students struggle to write in English so when you ask them

Cute in class labeling activity, have students assemble and label different meals or foods

Do you need Spanish writing activities and Spanish writing projects to use all year long with your high school or middle school students? Look no further. This is the ultimate writing resource for Spanish class that both teacher and students love.

Hand-on review game for Spanish class

Spanish Adjective Activities | Teaching descriptive adjectives is one of my favorite units in Spanish class! Here are five fun activities for teaching Spanish adjectives to describe a person physically or by personality. Find a complete unit with everything you need to get students describing themselves and others. Plus practice with no-prep worksheets, find a list of adjectives to define and find in a word search, and draw self-portraits to label physical characteristics, and other games!

Are you in search of engaging and educational Spanish activities for Thanksgiving? Look no further than our collection of Spanish Thanksgiving worksheets and puzzles, printable resources designed for learners who want to explore Spanish Thanksgiving traditions. These worksheets are specifically designed for learners who want to improve their understanding of Spanish vocabulary and grammar related to this special holiday. They can also learn about unique Spanish Thanksgiving traditions such…

I don't know about you, but I sometimes struggle to do enough meaningful speaking activities with my students in Spanish class. It can be really hard when they don't feel like speaking Spanish, especially in levels one and two. In my time as a Spanish teacher, I've found a few activities that are easy to use and the students enjoy and get excited for. Keep reading to find out my three favorite activities and one can't-miss tip that will change how your students speak in class!

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Spanish learners need the opportunity to practice using the words they know. As they practice speaking, they build confidence and fluency and also retain what they learn. These bingo-card style challenges each have 16 easy Spanish speaking activities for children to do at home. There are different ways you

With this Spanish sentence building activity, students use three words to build a sentence. They choose a word of each color to construct the sentence. In addition, each sentence describes a picture. The vocabulary in this activity is familiar, so students understand the nouns and verbs when they read