This booklet is designed to introduce and/or practice reading and writing in Romanian, as well as the following vocabulary and grammar topics: months of the year clothes jobs fictional and historic characters the vocative case the imperative mood The story is about Pingu, a penguin who like to dress up every month. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE STORY BOOKLET The story booklet can be projected on the interactive board. This is a good way to make sure all the students are engaged during the reading. Just open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader and choose Full Screen Mode from the View menu. Scroll down to turn pages. Print the document on A4 paper in Booklet size (go to File > Print > Page Sizing and Handling > Booklet) Fold the pages in the middle and staple them. If you do not have an interactive board in the classroom, it is a good idea to print the story in normal size to make a bigger copy that all the students can see and follow. After you have read the story once with the kids, ask them some comprehension questions. You might want to revise colors, months of the year, professions and some verbs that appear in the story, as well as any unknown vocabulary.

This game is a version of the I-Have-Who-Has game. It is designed to practice the days of the week in Spanish and the words ¨hoy, ayer, mañana´. DIRECTIONS: Print the document one-sided, laminate and cut out the cards. Distribute all the cards randomly to the students. The ideal number of players is 3 (4 cards for each student), but it will also work with 2 to 6 players. For bigger classes, you might want to print several copies. Select a student to begin by reading his card out loud and then putting it down. The other students listen attentively to each question, answer it if they have the answer card and then they read the next question. The game is over when all the cards are down. It is a great game to practice the newly taught vocabulary, as well as reading and listening skills.

This game is a version of the classic I-Have-Who-Has game. It is designed to practice the Romanian verbs naming various leisure activities, sports and hobbies in the first and third person singular. It is a great way to practice the newly taught vocabulary, as well as pronunciation and listening skills. Print the document one-sided, laminate it and cut out the cards. Distribute all the cards randomly to the students. The ideal numbers of player is 9 (4 cards per person), but it can also be played with 2 to 18 players. Select a student to begin by reading his card out loud and then putting it down. The other students listen attentively to each question, answer it if they have the answer card and then they read the next question. The game is over when all the cards are down.

This game is a version of the classic I-Have-Who-Has game. It is designed to practice using the verb* tener* and identifying and naming family members and some pets. It is a great way to practice the newly taught vocabulary, as well as pronunciation and listening skills. The ideal number of players is 6 (4 cards per player), but the game can be played by 2 to 12 players. Print the document one-sided, laminate it and cut out the cards. Distribute all the cards randomly to the students. Select a student to begin by reading his card out loud and then putting it down. The other students listen attentively to each question, answer it if they have the answer card and then they read the next question. The game is over when all the cards are down.

This game is a version of the classic I-Have-Who-Has game. It is designed to practice using the verb* avoir* and identifying and naming various toys and games. It is a great way to practice the newly taught vocabulary, as well as pronunciation and listening skills. Print the document one-sided, laminate it and cut out the cards. Distribute all the cards randomly to the students. Select a student to begin by reading his card out loud and then putting it down. The other students listen attentively to each question, answer it if they have the answer card and then they read the next question. The game is over when all the cards are down.

This is a simple board game designed to practice talking about activities at recess. There are two different versions. Version 1: Students express their likes and dislikes using Me encanta / Me gusta / No me gusta and the activity on the square they are on. Version 2: Kids make sentences with the adverbs nunca / siempre / a veces plus the activity on the square they are on to talk about what they usually do or don’t do at recess. INSTRUCTIONS Print on A3 paper or cardboard and laminate. You will need counters and dice. The students take turns to throw the dice and move the counters. On each square they fall, they must construct and say out loud the word that names the picture. If they fall on the goose, they must say the magic formula De oca a oca y tiro por que me toca, and then they can advance to the next goose and throw the dice a second time. If they fall on Vuelve a la salida, they must go back to the start. If they fall on Pierdes un turno, they must miss their next turn. The first player to get to* Llegada* wins. The ideal number of players is 2, so print as many copies as you need. If there are more than 4 players, the children will get bored waiting for their turn and they will not have enough speaking practice to make the activity meaningful from the point of view of language learning.

This game is a version of the classic I-Have-Who-Has game. It is designed to practice the verb to like and other verbs naming various leisure activities, sports and hobbies in the first and third person singular. It is a great way to practice the newly taught vocabulary, as well as pronunciation and listening skills. Print the document one-sided, laminate it and cut out the cards. Distribute all the cards randomly to the students. The ideal numbers of player is 9 (4 cards per person), but it can also be played with 2 to 18 players. Select a student to begin by reading his card out loud and then putting it down. The other students listen attentively to each question, answer it if they have the answer card and then they read the next question. The game is over when all the cards are down.

This game is designed to talk about feelings and emotions and some situations that might trigger them. It is a game of matching cards. There are two sets of card, one orange (questions) and one blue (answers). INSTRUCTIONS: The ideal number of students is 5, but the game can be played by 2 to 20 students. Hand out the answer cards evenly to the students. Keep the question cards and put them in a pile face down. Take a card and read the question out loud. The students who has the answer card reads it out loud and keeps the pair. The winner is the one who pairs all the cards first. After the students have played the game a few times, you can designate one of them to read the questions.

This booklet is designed to introduce and/or practice the vocabulary related to family. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE STORY BOOKLET The story booklet can be projected on the interactive board. This is a good way to make sure all the students are engaged during the reading. Open the document in Adobe Acrobat Reader and choose Full Screen Mode from the View menu. Scroll down to turn pages. Print the document in Booklet size on normal A4 paper. Fold the pages in the middle and staple them. If you do not have an interactive board in the classroom, it is a good idea to print the story in normal size to make a bigger copy that all the students can see and follow.

This is a classic card game of pairs. It is designed for the students to practice describing animals. The goal is to form and discard pairs of cards. There are three sets of cards: The first set has cards that describe animals (Vive en… / Come …/ Es … Tiene …/ Da … / Hace …). The second set has cards with images of the animals and the written Spanish word under the image. The third set has only images of the animals, without the written word. Print the document one-sided, laminate and cut out the cards. DIRECTIONS: Print the document one-sided, laminate and cut out the cards. The ideal number of players is 4 (4 cards for each student), but it will also work with 2 to 8 players. For bigger classes, you might want to print several copies. Distribute all the animal cards. You can choose whether to use the set with or without the Spanish names of the animals. Put the description cards face down in a pile. The teacher takes a description card and reads it out loud. The student who has the described animal, says its name in Spanish and gets the card to form a pair. After the students have played the game a few times, they will be able to take turns in reading the description cards themselves in pairs or groups.

This resource is designed to practice telling the time in Spanish and talking about every day of the week´s routine activities. This resource includes: 1 board game to practice the time (sharp, quarter past, half past, quarter to) 1 board game to practice the time (every five minutes) 1 board game to practice asking and answering about daily routines (What time do you wake up?) 1 board game to practice asking and answering about daily routines with the days of the week, parts of the day and time (*What do you do on Thursdays at three o´clock in the afternoon? * INSTRUCTIONS: Print each page one-sided on A3 paper/cardboard and laminate. To play the game you will need two dice and many counters. Set up centers with all four games and have students find a pair and play the games one by one. Set a limited number of times each student should throw the dice (for example 5), depending on how much time you have. Students earn one counter for each correct answer. When the students have played all the games, they count their counters to see who has the most . Students take turns to throw both dice. They read and answer the question that corresponds to the numbers on the dice (e.g.: where 1 and 6 meet on the grid).

This resource is designed to practice telling the time in Spanish and talking about every day of the week´s routine activities. This resource includes: 1 board game to practice the time (sharp, quarter past, half past, quarter to) 1 board game to practice the time (every five minutes) 1 board game to practice asking and answering about daily routines (What time do you wake up?) 1 board game to practice asking and answering about daily routines with the days of the week, parts of the day and time (*What do you do on a Thursdays at three o´clock in the afternoon? * INSTRUCTIONS: Print each page one-sided on A3 paper/cardboard and laminate. To play the game you will need two dice and many counters. Set up centers with all four games and have students find a pair and play the games one by one. Set a limited number of times each student should throw the dice (for example 5), depending on how much time you have. Students earn one counter for each correct answer. When the students have played all the games, they count their counters to see who has the most . Students take turns to throw both dice. They read and answer the question that corresponds to the numbers on the dice (e.g.: where 1 and 6 meet on the grid).

This game is a version of the classic I-Have-Who-Has game. It is designed to practice naming and describing fairy tale characters. The ideal number of players is 8(4 cards per player), but it can also be played in groups of 2 to 16 players. INSTRUCTIONS Print the document one-sided, laminate it and cut out the cards. Distribute all the cards randomly to the students. Select a student to begin by reading his card out loud and then putting it down. The other students listen attentively to each question, answer it if they have the answer card and then they read the next question. The game is over when all the cards are down.

This is a simple board game designed to practice identifying family members and pets in Spanish. There are two different versions, one with the members of the family and the other with pets. Students must name the picture in the square they fall on, e.g. “Es la madre. / Es un gato.” There is also a blank version for the students to fill in with words and/or drawing and create their own personalized board game. INSTRUCTIONS Print on A3 paper or cardboard and laminate. You will need counters and dice. The students take turns to throw the dice and move the counters. On each square they fall, they must construct and say out loud the word that names the picture. If they fall on the goose, they must say the magic formula “De oca a oca y tiro por que me toca”, and then they can advance to the next goose and throw the dice a second time. If they fall on Vuelve a la salida, they must go back to the start. If they fall on Pierdes un turno, they must miss their next turn. The first player to get to* Llegada* wins. The ideal number of players is 2, so print as many copies as you need. If there are more than 4 players, the children will get bored waiting for their turn and they will not have enough speaking practice to make the activity meaningful from the point of view of language learning.

This resource is designed to practice the verbs related to sports and the verbs* encantar, gustar, odiar.* It is a great way to practice newly taught vocabulary and structures as well as speaking skills. There are two versions of the same game: one with pictures and words and one with pictures only. There is also a blank board for the students to add vocabulary and/or illustrations to create their own personalized board games. Students can start playing the easier version and once they know the vocabulary, they can turn the board on the other side and play the version without words. INSTRUCTIONS: Print double-sided on A3 paper/cardboard and laminate. To play the game you will need a die and counters. Students take turns to throw the die and move their counter accordingly. They answer the questions with the help of the prompts on the game board in big colored letters and follow the written instructions. The winner is the one that gets to* Llegada* first. The ideal number of players is 2 (you can print as many copies as you need).

Distance Learning Special: Los animales (Nombres) - Minilesson Video+Activities This is a complete, ready-to-deliver Distance Learning lesson. It is designed to help the students learn new vocabulary and practice reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. It includes: A MP4 (video) minilesson on the names of toys in Spanish with images, animation and professional sound. Follow-up activities in the form of a 6-page pdf file that can be uploaded to SeeSaw. Steps you need to take to assign this lesson and the follow-up activity pages to your students in Seesaw: Upload the video minilesson on Seesaw, as a link, in the Multimedia Instructions or Example section. Ask your students to watch the video at least twice to familiarize themselves with the new vocabulary. Upload the pdf document on Seesaw, in the Add Template for Student Responses section, using the Upload tool. Each page of the document will upload as a page in Seesaw. For the first pages, you need to write labels in Seesaw to match the images. Then, pile the labels up in a corner and have them drag and drop them under the right images. The students will complete the activity, following the instructions on each slide. They need to use the drag and drop tool to label the pictures, the markers to mark the right answers and the typing tool to fill in the blanks. You could also ask the students to read some of the pages aloud and record themselves so you can check their pronunciation and give feedback. You can divide the activity into 2 parts if you worry it might be too much to assign to your students at once. Simply upload the document to Seesaw and then delete the pages you wish to leave for a later date. If you do not intend to use this resource to upload to Seesaw, you can just send the worksheet to your students to download and print.