A Spanish seesaw song I wrote to teach young children the Spanish vowel sounds

Simple words and sheet music with colour coded notes (a couple of the notes are smudged - apologies), including translations.

The idea is for the children to colour strips of paper as the words indicate (all red, mostly red, a little red) and then cut them out. The learners follow the teacher's Spanish instructions to make shapes with their strips of paper.

An everyday good morning song.\nA circle song, with 2 ladybirds in the middle. At the end of each verse each ladybird goes to the circle to choose a friend ladybird until we get to 8 and it stops there each time. (The singing is just for demonstration and never sounds like I would like it to!)

This lesson shows learners how to give advice in Spanish, and has several 'problems' that can be developed and used to practice the advice language. I have also included a 'Ser and Estar' poster making activity because we think about inherent permanent aspects of a person and ones that are changeable in this class.

Learners read a Spanish text with the teacher about what Mexican children do for their birthday, and answer questions about it. Learners study the months, sing the months, and write about their own birthdays.

This lesson guides learners into asking about, giving, and understanding opening times, making a description of markets in your country, writing back to a friend to give information about a shop. \nThe Spanish is all quite simple, and uses the present tense.

Exchange personal information like telephone numbers and where you live, through situations like meeting in a cafe, or exchanging business details. Roleplay being grown up.

Introducing will and going to futures, the learners build a monologue and a dialogue about their forthcoming vacation followed by a performance for a group of peers who need to note details.

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.