The front sheet is printed and children complete details of their school. Then they choose one of the three monsters, and decide on the number of eyes etc. Once they have written sentences about their monster they can cut it out and stick it to the other side of their front sheet. I show the children how to make opening mouths for the monsters, in the same way as Easter cards have chicks with opening beaks. Then the sentences they wrote go on the very back. Lots of cutting and sticking.

Here is the song and stickers to put on bodies! I ask the children to try to draw the items if they can.

Lots of ideas for teaching these words, to follow up with dotted, illustrated words to trace over and take home.

In addition to these 2 books with sentences about manners that learners earn points for using, I like learners to make a poster of 'las palabras mágicas' - please, thankyou, pardon, etc. in Spanish.

The children in my Spanish club sing this as one of their weekly songs. They learned it while making pet arañas to take home.

A short story with threes that the children can respond with 3 actions to each page. The pages can then be altered to other numbers so the children can give different number of reponses. There is a little book for the children to colour and take home.

Words and music to the popular toddler group song, with a ropey version of myself singing the song to help with pronunciation and tune (I hope)

Simple statements which can be introduced with pictures, acted out in a drama class, then followed up by illustrating a mini book. The document is printed on both sides of one sheet, then it will cut down the middle long-ways to fold into a book.

There are sentences to trace over and space for children to put their faces. I like to get passport photos of the children and they can cut out their faces and stick them in.

A Spanish nursery rhyme - the chicks say cheep, the dogs bow wow - with finger puppets to make, with lyrics and music indicated.

Chu Chu wa is a marching song with actions that become increasingly sillier. The tune is available on youtube (I recommend Grupo Encanto), and the children can draw actions before performing song as a reward at the end.

An investigation of Ir and Irse, with examples to match to translations, and a song with dual language lyrics from Spanglish Academy on Youtube.

An explanation of masculine and feminine, introducing el and la, and an opportunity to guess the gender of animal words. A test of the animal words is also included. If you can get hold of sing, watch and learn Spanish published by McGraw Hill the animals in this activity are all those in the first video/ song on the dvd, which makes nice revision.

In a small group work with each child to edit this book so the names are people in their family.

Different ways of saying goodbye and various slides to help learners practice them.

I give my learners a greetings card with the term dates I want them to remember.

The children work towards a barn dance with Spanish lyrics, giving and asking for names.

Drill instructor action song and games to play, using numbers and body parts.

A series of notes and activities to learn vocabulary related to finding an appropriate flat.

The illustrations explain the sentences, so the children can work out and tell me what they mean. Once we have had a look at a video and a dance there is a worksheet testing knowledge of body parts named in the song.