Spanish Class Game, Agarra la Rana!
We’ve been playing “Agarra la Rana” to review vocabulary in our Spanish classes! Check out how to play and find the link to a free printable of Frog Points to use with your classes!
National Foreign Language Week: Spanish Classes
Celebrating National Foreign Language Week with your students is a great way raise awareness about the benefits of studying additional languages in school.
Día de los Muertos Store Hop & Giveaway!
El Día de los Muertos is a time to remember loved ones that have gone before us. This year, some of your favorite Spanish stores on Teachers Pay Teachers are offering you the chance to get some fantastic resources and a chance to win a $50 TpT gift card.
Day of the Dead Hop and Giveaway
Inspiration for Foreign Language Teachers, Books to Encourage
Are you a world language teacher looking for a little inspiration?
Whether you are getting ready to head back to school or looking for a way to motivate you through the mid-year slump, you can definitely find some inspiration from this teacher-recommended list of books below.
I always say that the more we share, the more we can learn. I posted an open question to an amazing group of Spanish teachers on Facebook and they had an outpouring of responses with plenty of books to help encourage you through the school year!
Please peruse this list of books for teachers and leave a comment below if you have been particularly touched or inspired in your teaching by a book you have read!
Grin & Grab it Day! 3-22-2015, FREE SPANISH LESSONS today only! :D
Grin and Grab it Day 3-22-2015
This post is about Grin and Grab it Day 3-22-2015. Several sellers are participating, and we hope you find this to be a good opportunity. If you have read this blog before, you will know Grin and Grab it Day is when we make some usually priced Teachers Pay Teachers products free for the day. We do not all live in the same time zone, so just check and see if the items are free, and”grab” them if they are. Don’t wait! Of course, we so appreciate kind feedback if you like a product. This post will also point out some always free items, just in case you weren’t aware of them.
La Profesora Frida’s TeachersPayTeachers gift code GIVEAWAY! Celebrating 1,000 followers on TpT!
I am feeling so blessed and so humbled to have reached 1,000 followers in my TeachersPayTeachers store. I want to celebrate and give back to YOU, the people who keep me motivated to continue creating lessons to share with teachers around the world.
Please help me celebrate by entering to win one of 2 TpT gift codes!! First prize is for a $25 TpT gift code and second prize is for a $10 TpT gift code. 🙂
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Spanish Valentine’s Day Lessons!! El Dia de San Valentin, El Dia de los Enamorados!
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner!!
Come check out La Profesora Frida’s BIG Bundle of Valentine’s Day Activities for your Spanish classes!
There are a bunch of fun activities in this packet that you could use all week! Choose one or two to supplement your lessons each day leading up to Valentine’s Day, or set up Dia de San Valentin stations and have students work through the activities at their own pace.
They’re not only fun for you to use with your students, but are also great to have on hand for your Fast Finishers during the month of February, and are perfect emergency sub plans because they are self contained lessons.
Spanish class: REVIEW Games for Verb Conjugation!
Picture this:
Your ENTIRE Spanish class ALL participating in a REVIEW of SPANISH VERB CONJGUATIONS and every single one of those kiddos having FUN!
Yup, totally possible! Octopus On Guard is a super fun game that your students will actually ASK to play!
One of the BEST things about this game: NO prep! Just print and go!
The premise of the game is that the Octopus is guarding her treasure and students must “pop the bubbles” in the way!
–Students pair up and are armed with a marker (or highlighter or colored pencil, etc!).
–The teacher calls out conjugated verbs in English and the students race each other to find the correct conjugations in Spanish.
–When a student finds the correct conjugation, they “pop the bubble” by coloring it in.
(The student who found the correct bubble can then tell their partner where to find it so the partner can color it in too.)
–Whoever finds the correct conjugation first, earns a point.
(My students just keep a tally on the side of their papers.)
–The student with the most points at the end wins!
(What do they win?? Bragging rights, usually! lol)
Another way to play this as a whole class is to use it as a “matamoscas” or “flyswatter” game!
The “little” Octopus on Guard! packet contains 1 game each for AR / ER / IR verbs in the PRESENT TENSE! <– a great way to try out the games with your students
But you can also find Octopus on Guard with game boards for:
Spanish Present Tense, Imperfect, Preterit, Conditional and Future TENSES:
Spanish -AR verbs Octopus On Guard!
Spanish -ER verbs Octopus On Guard!
Spanish -IR verbs Octopus On Guard!
And I recently added a bunch of Octopus On Guard games that have pictures instead of words to review vocabulary, AND… (drumroll please) There is now an EDITABLE Octopus On Guard set so you can create games to match YOUR curriculum! Hurrah!
“Octopus on Guard” is a great review game and motivator. This game can go quickly! It’s a great warm up activity or closer at the end of a lesson.
You can laminate these and use them over and over again throughout the year!
If you’d like it to last a little longer, consider photocopying double-sided and play “rounds.”
I hope you LOVE these games as much as my kiddos!
~La Profesora Frida
Spanish Class: Adding Pronunciation / Speaking Activities without interrupting your schedule.
I have seen a few teachers post that their New Year’s (Teaching) Resolutions include creating more opportunities to grade Pronunciation activities in their classrooms.
Creating Pronunciation grades can be tricky. How often should one grade Pronunciation? Obviously, we assess pronunciation all day, every day in our classes. We model pronunciation and listen for mistakes and help our students modify as necessary.
But our students need to understand the importance of correct pronunciation. After all, “Yo tengo hambre” is NOT the same thing as saying “Yo tengo hombre…” 😉
And if your students have seen Will Ferrell’s cute Tweet floating around on Facebook, they may have finally learned that accents DO matter and there is a rather important difference between años and anos….and papá and papa…
The problem I ran into in the past with Pronunciation grades was that it always took a 1/2 class period to a whole period to get through all students. And what do the other students do while each student comes up to my desk to recite their Pronunciation assignment??
Well, I think I’ve solved the problem. 🙂
Communication in the target language is always the goal for a foreign language student. Sometimes our students need a bit of motivation to speak in the target language and help feeling comfortable speaking in front of others.
This packet was created to help provide a tool to guide your students in pronunciation activities every week throughout the school year. You will be able to assess your students’ pronunciation on a WEEKLY basis and MONITOR their progress throughout the school year!
Missed out on doing Pronunciation activities during the first semester? No problem. Read through the activities, decide where your Spanish 1 students are and just start there.
TRACKING SHEET, RUBRIC and ORAL PROGRESS REPORTS are included to help you stay organized and help to provide your students visual guidelines and feedback.
48 WEEKS of a weekly pronunciation assignment have been provided as well as blank frames so you can add anything you like.
The BEST ADVICE I have heard for using my packet is a genius idea from another teacher–
She assigns one Pronunciation activity a week and has her students call her work phone and leave voicemail messages reciting their assignment! That way she doesn’t have to take away from classroom teaching! Genius! I think this is amazing advice. If you choose to do your Pronunciation assignments this way, you can do the grading in a more relaxed manner and at your leisure.
What are YOUR ideas and advice for Pronunciation grading in your Foreign Language class? Please leave a comment below and share your ideas with us!
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La Profesora Frida