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At Calico Spanish, we started with dreaming of creating the best Spanish songs for kids. In 2009, our YouTube channel was born in 2009. Our original videos capped at a measly 7,000 views- compare that to the 120+ million views that Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent audition received! Everyone has to start somewhere, right? Fast […]

Elementary Spanish teachers, how is your school year going?  You’re a quarter of the way through! As you move through this semester with your early Spanish learners, we wanted to help you help them with our YouTube Basics Playlist.  This is something we’ve put together to help you organize your class around target-language music.  This […]

How do you teach children clothing words in Spanish? Well, you approach it like any other set of vocabulary – in context. – Follow us on Twitter – There’s some spirited questioning in the early language (and secondary!) field about how best to present some concepts.  Daily activities, particularly reflexive verbs, is one.  You’ll hear […]

What do you get when you update a 100-year-old Spanish children’s ronda with a peppy country beat and lyrics related to time, the house, feelings, and activities?  We can’t wait to show you. I know we’ve been releasing a lot of new music lately (see Pañuelito, and Amiguito, and Así me gusta a mí, and Todo mi […]

We’re at it again!  We’re releasing another all-new music video for young Spanish learners, and this one has baila written all over it.  So, let’s dance! – Follow us on Twitter – (Side note: If you missed our other recent song releases, you’ll want to check them out: Move your body, find the pañuelito, and tell us what […]

Is there anywhere a fun song for early Spanish learners that targets prepositions of location?  We couldn’t find any.  So we did it ourselves. What phrases, exactly? We call this song “Pañuelito” (little handkerchief). It accompanies Level C of Calico Spanish Stories, themed “I Live Here.”  In this level, several of the Video Stories feature our characters […]

Could you use a new music resource to help your early learners use me gusta?  What about descriptions and activities? How about a brand new Calico Spanish song? Wait. Just a minute. You mean, like the songs that are among the most popular children’s Spanish learning songs on YouTube?  The ones with millions and millions of […]

The weekly #LangChat conversation was fast paced as everyone tweeted away about how valuable music is in the language classroom. Highlights of why it is valuable included the ability to really engage students as you introduce culture, teach new vocabulary and grammatical structures, and give kids opportunities to hear native speakers. Thank you to all […]