This little dialogue can be used between the waiter and the client as the children choose between 2 healthy snacks to start the Spanish session

Toddler group management will be familiar with the rhyme: clap your hands, 123, put your hands upon your knee. Here is a Spanish version I wrote for a toddler group but use in reception.

Learners use Spanish words for shapes and numbers, and give each other instructions to create the shape using language only (no peeping). Encourage the use of Spanglish - use the Spanish words you can and the English words to supplement.

Give each child a sheet to cut up, and 5 white slips and one yellow slip. Children play in teams, hiding the slips under the people on the cards, telling the team members who has the golden card and why, then trying to remember where each person has hidden the card.

This is a ready made game for learners to use to practice their numbers in Spanish. The children prefer to use bigger cards so I blow the image up to A3 paper.

The children repeat sentences and guess meaning from pictures. Tutor models sentences without the N and asks which letter is missing. The children write in the letter n on the sheets to complete the words. The children sing a song and invent actions for it, which repeats the same sentences.

3 simple verses with music and words in Spanish and English translation. Good to sing at the beginning of a session. Actions to go with the song are self explanatory.

Blow up the dominoes sheet to A3 paper, and groups of children make domino chains. Then find out about lucky grapes on clock chimes and colour in a sheet about it.

There are 7 different images, all quite small. This is a relaxing reward part of Spanish classes, where the only Spanish the children need to say is the word that appears on the card, and 'Chócola' the word I use for 'snap' in Spanish.

I read the Henré Tullet book to the children, keeping my Spanish comments to 'presiona aquí, rojo, amarillo, azul' and the numbers. Then I got the children to colour in this sheet and cut it out carefully so they have their own Henré Tullet cards to read to me/ each other/ take home.

Children design their own board, then use these cards instead of dice to determine how many spaces they progress and whether they go up or down.

I use this resource to get all the children to say 'soy un pollito' etc., as I divide them into 3 teams for points earning purposes. It links nicely with a story on the growstorygrow website (subscription necessary for that), but also works as a nice session that stands on its own.

Jobs with pictures labelled in English and in Spanish so learners can play pelmanism naming the job in the language they are looking for.

A simple game that only needs 6 post it notes to complete. I present the animals to the children, who take turns to find the animals that make the given sounds. Then the children have a copy of the sheet each to colour and play with.

Counting off fingers as members of the family, either give the learners the sheet as it is for them to trace around the letters, or enlarge everything to give them a little book which they can augment with pictures of their family.

A revision of the present perfect, with 2 tasks: review what you have done since you won the lottery, and write to a friend saying what you have done so far to get ready for Christmas.

Spanish activity .ppt pack for specialist and non-specialist teachers. Over forty five ready made lessons and activities based on Pedro Rabbit This is Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of the naughty rabbit who has a narrow escape from Mr McGregor’s garden, but Peter is now Pedro, and it is Señor McGregor chases the scared animal around el jardín. The slide show includes the story as well as: Songs and chants that you can build into your routine. There are links so you can easily find them on YouTube, and lyrics with translations to support your class performances. Writing and colouring activities for all ages. Make love cards for those at home, explore and talk about colour, draw and label your ideal house, make a welcome sign, a family tree, a scarecrow, and change the labels on your neighbourhood map so your streets look a little more Spanish! Routine words and activities, such as monitoring the weather or keeping records for watering a plant. Maths activities such as creating bar charts, counting, multiplying and garden design. Physical games and races that use Spanish phrases. Mindful activities such as tallying birds on a feeder, or being aware of the sounds around us. A dice game to collect parts of a parasol and an umbrella, that also teaches the words for sun and rain. Reading activities, including a recipe for small cakes that la Mamá de Pedro gets for her bunnies; and a science text about the onions that Señor McGregor grows. Vocab testing on words in the story, cognates, and a word search that includes all the food and drink in the story, with suggestions for further activities for children who need extensions. Roleplays set in a doctor’s surgery and in a café. There is also a script that children can learn to present a “where is the rabbit?” sleight of hand trick. Whole group activities that you can build into your classroom routine, such as a Spanish version of “heads down, thumbs up;” a finding activity similar to the hotter colder game; a Pedro dice adaptation of Simon says, with suggested instructions based on moving parts of the body; guessing who sneezed (!) and thinking of lots of uses for a bucket.

4 minute video to watch (optional) Vocab work sheet consisting of: Match English to Spanish Word search dictionary activity (with key) Observation style quiz based on video (with answers)

The children count with you in Spanish to 20 with the numbers in front of them, then work to guess how many animals are in each group before counting and labelling them in Spanish.

Identifying items from the Spanish speaking world Classroom language Spelling rules Getting to know you questions