Here are a few resources that I have created and used in the past to teach my students about Christmas celebrations in Spanish-speaking countries: My favorite Christmas songs FREE Mexican Christmas traditions reading Readings and activities for typical Christmas traditions…currently, just La Pastorela, El Día de los Inocentes and El Día de los Reyes Magos.…
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Guajeros and -IR verbs
I promised a reader I’d have these uploaded by the 20th, and by golly I’ve made the deadline! Use these notes to teach a focused grammar lesson on the present indicative of -IR verbs without departing from culture or comprehensible input. Your students will learn about the guajeros of Guatemala–children that live and/or work in garbage…
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Rafael Nadal and -ER verbs
A reader recently wrote and requested that I add -ER and -IR present indicative verb notes to my TpT page, and I am very excited about the facelift that I gave the notes that I used to use! Since I am always trying to work cultural into the content that I teach, I figured that…
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El Día de los Muertos
El Día de los Muertos is Saturday, so that means that you have a whole week to teach it to your students!! I just put the finishing touches on lesson plans for novice/intermediate Spanish students that will give you 3-4 days of instruction about the holiday. You can download the plans here! They include a three-level…
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Gazpacho – La Ogra
I am going to post this because it is really great. And it’s really terrible. Between this and ‘What does the fox say?’, my mind is just blown. I mean come on! They are insane! Songs about how to make Gazpacho and what a FOX says? They are hilarious and engaging, but PLEASE! What ARE…
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El amigo simpático Lesson Plans
Finally! After referencing my Amigo simpático script and plans for two years now on my curriculum map, I am finally posting them! Click here to download lesson plans for a six-day unit for Spanish 1 that will introduce your students to the structures tienes que, no puede, simpático, and le ayuda with several discussion-based activities and a story. It includes follow-up activities…
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Chicken Bus Song
After reading Esperanza with my classes last year, I’ve been meaning to work up some more resources on Central American ‘Chicken Buses’. My kids enjoyed learning about them so much! It took awhile for me to find good video resources on them (there are a lot of low-quality ‘home videos’), but I got there! This song is…
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¡Viene un hombre! Script and Plans
The very first lesson plan that I posted on this blog was for a unit focused on “Biblioburro”, the donkey library in La Gloria, Colombia. This year, I finally re-vamped the unit that I had been working with since 2011 so that it fit into my curriculum map better. I wanted it to focus on…
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Spanish II Final Exam, Take 2
My maternity sub is unavailable on one day during finals week, so I needed to develop a new final exam for Spanish II that did not involve the use of the computer. (Last year, I gave my students this exam based on the video La leyenda del espantapájaros.) Wanting to do as little work as…
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El Gaucho Lesson Plans
This is a week-long unit that uses the structures from the script “Mama’s Boy” (“needs”, “works at”, and “lives alone”) to talk about the iconic Argentinian Gaucho. After acquiring the structures, students learn about Gauchos through a reading, a video, a song, and a cartoon. Download the resource pack for these lesson plans here.I updated them…
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