A first lesson, with giving our names, and words with ll in them.

I use this to incorporate a bit of physical learning and Spanish to learning about the life cycle of frogs.

A song and jumping dance to get hearts going and Spanish flowing first thing. Enjoy! \n\n I have included a ropey version of me singing the original song to give you an idea of the tune. Listen on low volume!

The colour guessing game using different coloured socks in bags. I have included a daft video of myself playing the game with a Spanish speaking puppet!

A worksheet to use after looking at the BBC Primary Spanish site, which consolidates learning about personal information, and includes a flag colouring activity.

Learners are given time words relating to the future to put in chronological order, starting from now. Learners match verbs to their collocations, then interview peers about when they will do the actions on the list, inventing answers if necessary.

Phrases about car rental which learners may use to try to complete dialogues about car rental.

Having completed 2 songs about wanting and eating bicuits, the children can trace over words in a comic strip and colour in the biscuit picture.

Find the fireman, roll out the flames, draw a firedog (american tradition), match capital and small letters as you find the water and flame partners. All part of thinking about fire and people who help us, using Spanish.

2 socks with the same design. Stripey, spotty, or plain, the design is labelled in Spanish so all we have to do is name it and find it.

Name all the presents under each card and choose a present.\n\nUse the foam pieces your teacher gives you to decorate your tree, taking turns to pass the bag of pieces around.

Lots of activities to learn facial features and colours, and some colouring.

Variations on a theme of 2 little dickie birds. I use a different creature each week, but otherwise the rhyme remains the same. Words, creature faces to stick on fingers, and an audio to hear how it sounds roughly.

A simple song, roughly recorded to give you an idea of the tune, and a nice plenary for reception classes as it lends itself to actions:\nJump bunnies, prick up your ears\nSleep bunnies, put down your ears.\nWords and music

A song with actions to say yes and no.

This is a nice craft activity or simply a finger rhyme. There is a lovely version of this song by Grupo Encanto on Cantajuego Volume 4. You can see it on the 2nd half of the video linked above.

Count the hands and say what they do - clap, wave, talk etc.\nRead the words that come up and put your hands in if you have that strip. Count how many hands are in.

This turns into a nice book when copied onto both sides of one sheet. We learn that the word for 'this' in Spanish is different for masculine and feminine words. Then we revise recognising masculine and feminine words and get the sentences correct together. In the books it is pencil first, then pen, then test each other on the sentences using the pictures as prompts.

A Spanish take on the spotty dogs game, with pictures to colour, language to learn, and cards to craft.

Words, instructions and cards for children's first Spanish pelmanism game.