The global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is changing faster than news stories can be written and published. The virus has brought almost every major system to challenges perhaps never faced before. Healthcare. Finance. Food service. Transportation. Education.
In this challenging time, we at Calico Spanish want to support learners and their families and teachers. We've worked hard to create the most effective, research-based, and downright fun online Spanish curriculum for kids available. We've been actively brainstorming how we can make our digital elementary Spanish lessons available for every child affected by school closures due to coronavirus precautions (or a snowstorm, for that matter!).
We've come up with three ways you can use our online curriculum while schools are closed.
Digital elementary Spanish lessons
FREE PDF of 10 days of lessons
First, we've developed a free PDF with 10 lessons any family can use. These lessons are easy and fun to do, whether the parents or other caregivers speak Spanish or not. Each lesson gives step-by-step instructions and is fully supported by resources from our Stories curriculum, including Video Stories, activity sheets, posters, and flashcards. In these lessons, children will work on:
- identifying the number of objects in a group (1-7)
- saying what a day of the week it is and what day of the week a birthday falls on
- asking and answering the question "How old are you?"
- contrasting items that are big and small
Getting the PDF is easy - just click below, enter your email, and you'll receive an email with the PDF. Upload it to your school learning management system, include it in your newsletter, link it on your website - however you need to get it to your young Spanish learners and their families!
Need more online Spanish curriculum?
With any subscription, you'll get 200+ hours of planned lesson content across 4 levels, so you can move around to whatever content best fits your learners' ability. All of the lessons were written to be able to be implemented by anyone, regardless of Spanish ability, so they can support literally everyone in this time of shuttered schools.
One low price gives you access to our complete curriculum for
elementary school Spanish learners. Get started today!
For our subscribers
Send Stories home
We know those of you already using the Calico Spanish Stories curriculum are all over the map as far as where your learners are concerned. If you want to build your own plans using anything available in your subscription site, we want to support you too.
Usually, the Video Stories that are the core of every Stories unit are locked behind a firewall and only the subscribing teachers can access them. However, to face this unprecedented crisis, we've created a new way for schools to provide families with at home video access. You can learn more about this new feature at our Remote Learning page. (This is an optional supplement; additional fees apply.)
We also updated our activities to enable teachers to post them in Google Classroom. Again, details on accessing all of our tools for hybrid, remote, and distance learning can be found on our Virtual Learning page.
Email us if you have questions on how to best meet the needs of your students during this challenging season of teaching Spanish remotely.
One more thing...
Don't forget that our videos and games page is always available with no login and no external ads. If you have more ideas for ways we can support you in this time, please let us know. Stay healthy, stay safe, and keep learning.