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This is lesson 1 (28 pages) that covers a review of the basics. This lesson is intended for students who have already been introduced to these basics but could use a refresher. “Basics” includes worksheets covering the following Spanish fundamentals: Greetings & Goodbyes Calendar Seasons & Weather Colores Shapes

Are you ready for Earth Day on April 22nd? Use these fun Earth Day-themed activities to teach your Spanish students some Earth Day-inspired vocabulary and phrases! Activities include the following: Vocabulary-Picture Match (3) Earth Day Crossword Puzzle Earth Day Word Search Nature Picture Labeling Activity Color-by-Number Answer keys are included! ¡Feliz Día de la Tierra!

Are you ready for Valentine’s Day? Use these fun Valentine’s Day-themed activities to teach your Spanish students some holiday-inspired vocabulary and phrases! Activities include the following: Vocabulary-picture match (2) Valentine’s Day crossword puzzle Valentine’s Day word search Heart-shaped card Color-by-number Answer keys are included! ¡Feliz Día de San Valentín!

Reinforce learning of possessive adjectives with this fun board game! The object of the game is to be the first person to collect at least two flashcards in all categories using the correct possessive adjective & associated vocabulary word based on the picture. In order to play this game, students should first be familiar with Spanish possessive adjectives, (singular & plural), and simple vocabulary associated with food, school items, family members, household items, personal items, animals, and clothing. (Alternatively, you can write Spanish vocabulary words on the back of the flashcards if you want to focus on the possessive adjectives alone.) Possessive adjectives covered by this game are: MI, MIS TU, TUS SU, SUS NUESTRO(A), NUESTROS(AS) VUESTRO(A), VUESTROS(AS) SU, SUS Print out the game board on white card stock and cut into two half-size game boards, (you may need multiple copies). Laminate or use page protectors for durability. Print out flashcards on white card stock. Cut along the lines. For this game you will need: Game board, one per player Flashcards One dice Choose 4-5 students, or have students choose partners and work in teams. Give the players each a game board. Detailed instructions for playing the game are included.

I love using simple songs and stories to reinforce learning! Calico Spanish has a lot of great videos to teach basic concepts like “Me Gusta” and learning how to use descriptive words in Spanish. I’ve developed this activity to blend nicely with these videos by Calico Spanish. Directions… First, have students listen to the story on YouTube called “Así Me Gusta a Mí” by Calico Spanish. Then, have students listen to “Chocolate, Uno, Dos Tres…” by Calico Spanish. Then, have students complete the worksheets working together as a class.

Are you ready for Earth Day on April 22nd? Use these fun Earth Day-themed activities to teach your Spanish students some Earth Day-inspired vocabulary and phrases! Activities include the following: Vocabulary-Picture Match (3) Earth Day Crossword Puzzle Earth Day Word Search Nature Picture Labeling Activity Color-by-Number Answer keys are included! ¡Feliz Día de la Tierra!

Use this overview of conjugation regular verbs in the imperfect tense and supporting worksheets with your students. A great homework item, assessment, or just for extra practice. Also includes an introduction to “trigger” words for the imperfect tense. Clipart images courtesy of Pigknit!

Use this overview of conjugation regular verbs in the preterite tense and supporting worksheets with your students. A great homework item, assessment, or just for extra practice. Also includes an introduction to “trigger” words for the preterite tense.

This is a fun introduction to young Spanish students just starting their journey in learning Spanish basics. This workbook covers the following ten colors in Spanish: Rojo - red Amarillo - yellow Anaranjado - orange Verde - green Azul - bue Rosado - pink Morado - purple Marrón - brown Negro - black Blanco - white

DIY Spanish Camp - Everything you need in one place! (111 pages total!) Are you running a Spanish Camp and not sure where to start? After years of running my own Spanish Camp for students ranging from Kindergarten to 5th grade, I have come up with an easy-to-follow and comprehensive guide for delivering a camp that students will love! By following my DIY Spanish Camp, you’ll have absolutely everything you’ll need to run a fun and engaging camp! The recommended duration of this DIY Spanish Camp is 5 days with each day of camp running approximately 4-6 hours. Choose the countries you want to visit and the order you want to follow. The guide suggests a possible itinerary, but it is meant to be flexible based on your specific needs. If you are running a full day camp, use all the suggested activities and visit all the countries. For a shorter camp, omit some of the activities or travel to fewer countries. This camp can be held either indoors or outdoors! Table of Contents… DIY Spanish Camp Overview Camp Kick Off ! Ready to Travel! Welcome, Name Tags, Camp Rules & Ice Breaker Passport Template “Hacer la Maleta” Game & Activity Travel Journal Running Your Camp Day-by-Day (see below for more detail) SPAIN Boarding Passes, Passport Stamps & Currency Activities, Crafts & Games Recipes (Tortilla Española, Paella & Virgin Sangria) PUERTO RICO Boarding Passes & Passport Stamps Activities, Crafts & Games Food (Arroz con Gandules) CUBA Boarding Passes, Passport Stamps & Currency Activities, Crafts & Games Recipe (Ropa Vieja) COSTA RICA Boarding Passes, Passport Stamps & Currency Activities, Crafts & Games Recipe (Gallo Pinto) PERU Boarding Passes, Passport Stamps & Currency Activities, Crafts & Games Recipe (Chicha Morada) ARGENTINA Boarding Passes, Passport Stamps & Currency Activities, Crafts & Games Food & Drink (Empanadas & Yerba Mate) MEXICO Boarding Passes, Passport Stamps & Currency Activities, Crafts & Games Recipes (Traditional Guacamole, Mexican Mole Sauce & Agua de Fresa)

Instructions… First, watch this video on YouTube with your students. Encourage students to take notes during the video. Pass out the following four pages to your students and have them complete each page based on what they have learned. This is activity can also be used as a homework assignment by providing the YouTube video link ahead of time. (This video is available through the YouTube Kids app or website for safe, children-friendly viewing.) House outline on page 3 courtesy of Allison Fors.

Learn all the parts of a house with these visual aids. Included are both visual aids with and without Spanish labels for review with your students. Includes both the names of the rooms of a house and labels for the most common items that you find in each room. Mi Casa La Cocina El Comedor El Dormitorio El Salón La Oficina El Baño El Lavadero El Garaje

Use this fun “FamilyTree” activity to help your students learn the members of a family in Spanish! First, watch this YouTube video to review Spanish family vocabulary: MI FAMILIA (Mi Camino Spanish) Then, print out the tree on white cardstock so that you have one for each student. Print out the family pictures that you prefer for this activity on regular paper. (There are frames with pictures & labels, pictures with no labels, empty frames with labels, and empty frames with no labels.) Finally, have students present their family tree to the class in Spanish! Learn the following Spanish vocabulary: Mi Padre / Mi Madre Mi Abuelo / Mi Abuela Mi Hermano / Mi Hermana Mi Tío / Mi Tía Mi Primo / Mi Prima Mi Perro / Mi Gato Family clipart courtesy of Whimsy Clips!

There is no better way to teach kids about the names of foods in Spanish than with this fun, restaurant-style game! Students should first be familiar with basic food vocabulary in Spanish. Use menus, play money, place setting, and food flashcards and have kids role-play ordering food in Spanish at a restaurant. A class favorite for sure! NOTE! If you don’t want to bother with printing, cutting and assembling this game, send an email to info@micaminospanish.com and you can order this game fully assembled and ready to ship! Included with this resource: Menu for “El Restaurante Fantástico” Place setting, one with Spanish labels and one without, (fork, knife, spoon, plate, glass, napkin, salt & pepper) 48 Food Flashcards with Spanish vocabulary for food items related to breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, and desserts Fake dollar bills (1’s, 5’s, and 10’s) Detailed instructions for playing the game

¡Vamos a Hacer un Picnic! Check out my video preview to see how this game is played. This is honestly the most efficient & fun way to teach a lot of vocabulary quickly! Students love it! This is a fun game played with a single dice used to teach students the names of common food items in a fun, interactive way! In order to play this game, students should first be familiar with basic food vocabulary in Spanish. There are six categories and the first five include 12 food items in each: Fruits or “FRUTA” Vegetables or “VERDURA” Main Dish or “PLATO PRINCIPAL” Drink or “BEBIDA” Dessert or “POSTRE” If a player rolls a 6, he/she loses one item to the ants! Directions: For the game board, choose one of two pages, (one for a smaller, paper saving option and one for a larger option). Print out enough so that you have one per player or team. Laminate for durability. Print out pages 4 & 5, front-to-back and keep as a reference for game play. Print out the food cards on cardstock, (12 of each category), and cut along the lines, (pages 7-11). For this game you will need: One dice Place setting, (one per player/team, small or large) Food flashcards, (printed on cardstock) Teacher Tip! Help students learn this vocabulary by writing the Spanish name for each item on the back of each flashcard. Also, if you like this game, be sure to check out one of my best selling resources, “¡El Restaurante Fantático!” How to Play… The object of this game is to be the first to collect at least one food item from each category before the ants take something away! The first player starts by rolling the dice. For a “1”, choose a fruit, “2” a vegetable, “3” a main dish, “4” a drink, and “5” a dessert. If a player rolls a “6”, he or she loses one item to the ants! If a player already has an item from a certain category, he/she may collect another for up to 2 items per category. For a more difficult game, the players must use the correct Spanish word for each item in order to collect it. If a player does not know any of the items or says the name incorrectly, the teacher should say the correct name out loud and move on to the next player. For a more simple game, teach the Spanish word for each item that is chosen to the players as review. The first player that collects a food item from each category is the winner. Recommended number of players or partner teams, 4-5.

This is a fun activity for students to help them learn how to describe the weather in Spanish! This is a fun craft that can be used for all beginning Spanish students from Kindergarten and up! The only skills required are that the students know how to read and to draw. The activity takes about 1 hour to complete and can be used every day to help students remember how to describe the weather on any day of the year! Fun, easy, and extremely helpful! Note! There are two versions of this activity. One that is more advanced and one that is more basic. Use the one that is most appropriate for your students! Spanish Vocabulary covered: Hace sol. Hace calor. Hace viento. Está lloviendo. Está nevando. Hace frío. Está nublado. Está medio nublado.

How to Use this Guide… This guide has EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED for teaching an entire year of Spanish to Kindergarten ~ 2nd grade! It is intended for use with beginning Spanish students who are learning Spanish as a second language. (It is not recommended for Spanish immersion classes.) This guide starts with a clickable TOC and contains over 200 PAGES covering 10 complete units that include the following for EVERY unit: Unit Overview with Scope & Sequence Visual Aids Age-Appropriate Worksheets for Writing Practice Coloring Pages & Tracing Activities Short Stories Clickable YouTube Hyperlinks for Lesson-Related Videos Recommended Bilingual Read Alouds Each unit is broken into individual lessons that include a corresponding visual aid and a recommended scope and sequence. YouTube videos are also included with clickable links. Several worksheets are provided with each lesson that include tracing and coloring activities. As you move through a unit, you can check the box when you’ve completed part of the lesson so that you don’t lose track of your progress. Table of Contents… How to Use this Guide Unidad 1 - Los Saludos Hola, ¿Cómo te llamas? Buenos días. / Buenas tardes. Buenas noches. ¿Cómo estás? Una Conversación Básica en Español Unidad 2 - El Alfabeto y Los Números El Alfabeto Los Números 1-10 Los Números 11-20 Unidad 3 - Los Colores y Las Formas Los Colores Las Formas Unidad 4 - El Calendario y El Tiempo Los Días de la Semana Los Meses del Año Las Estaciones ¿Qué Tiempo Hace? Unidad 5 - La Escuela Vuelta a la Escuela En Mi Mochila Unidad 6 - ME GUSTA y Los Verbos Unidad 7 - Las Partes del Cuerpo Unidad 8 - ¡Los Animales! Los Animales de la Granja Mis Mascotas Los Animales Marinos ¡Vamos al Zoológico! Unidad 9 - Mi Casa y Mi Familia Mi Casa Mi Familia Unidad 10 - Las Frutas Acknowledgements! Toon graphics courtesy of Ron Leishman Digital Toonage! Animal & family clipart courtesy of Whimsy Clips! Shapes courtesy of Krista Wallden – Creative Clips! Alien Family courtesy of Chirp Graphics! Fruit clipart courtesy of Speech Doodles! Weather clipart courtesy of Creating4 the Classroom! School clipart sampler 2 SMART Chicks! Back to school images courtesy of Lilly Silly Billy!

Practice writing and learn new Spanish vocabulary for words starting with the Spanish vowels ~ A, E, I, O, U!

First, start with this video overview: Spanish-Speaking Countries of the World! Then, introduce your students to all 21 Spanish-speaking countries of the world using this country fact sheet activity. (Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Spain, Equatorial Guinea) Print out all 21 pages and assign one country to each student. (Or, focus on only a few countries at a time and have students work in small groups.) Students will first have to do simple research on their assigned country and fill out their country fact sheet. Then, students will fill in all of the blanks on the country fact sheet and color the flag, the map, and draw pictures with labels where needed. Finally, students can present their country to the rest of the class in Spanish! TEACHER TIP! For a more in depth look at each country, check out my individual country fact sheets with country-specific videos and related activities. For this EXACT SAME resource but in ENGLISH, click here! /teaching-resource/-13201162 Check out my YouTube Playlist ~ Spanish-Speaking Countries of the World (Mi Camino Spanish)

Teach your students the names of food in Spanish using this fun activity with minimal prep! This activity works for all grade levels. For younger students, focus on coloring, cutting, gluing and practicing the food vocabulary. For older students, have them skip coloring and cutting and just draw their favorite foods and then have them focus on the verbal presentation. Super versatile and lots of fun. Use the first page as a visual aid to review the names of food with your students. Print out the following pages so that you have enough for each student. (Note: Food sheets are designed for cutting in half to save on paper.) Have students decide which meal they are going to choose: El Desayuno (breakfast) El Almuerzo (lunch) La Cena (dinner) *Then, have students color and cut out their favorite foods and paste them onto the place setting. Encourage students to label food names in Spanish. Include the names of each part of the place setting for an extra challenge, la servilleta, el tenedor, el plato, el cuchillo, la cuchara). Finally, have students present their favorite meals to the rest of the class in Spanish! “Para el desayuno, mi comida favorita es…” “Para la cena, me gusta comer…” “ Etc.