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We recently told you about Pañuelito, a culturally authentic game for reviewing vocabulary in Spanish class.  Here we share Doña Ana. If you want a game that gets learners singing instead of drilling, Doña Ana is worth adding to your rotation. It is a traditional ronda — a circle song-and-game — played across Latin America […]

If your class needs to get out of their seats but you still want them producing and processing Spanish, a quick round of pañuelito does both. It’s a movement game played in Spanish-speaking countries for generations — also known as el juego del pañuelo — and it adapts to almost any vocabulary set you’re already […]

Answer: They’ve changed. All three of these are examples of language changes in recent years, at least in Spanish.  Thus, they’re the three biggest changes we made in our recent rather significant update to Calico Spanish Classic for Schools, our beginner level for elementary Spanish teachers (now retired from print but still available on TeachersPayTeachers). – Follow us […]

Has it seemed to you that the topic of weather and seasons has been the hardest to pin down in a catchy, effective song for early Spanish learners?  It has for us.  So, we made our own. “Las estaciones” weather/seasons Spanish song The weather and seasons are so interconnected that it was natural to put […]

What’s the top complaint of elementary world language teachers?  TIME. I cannot tell you how often I hear teachers and world language district specialists alike lament the prevailing mood in schools and districts that we really ought to be producing better results in language proficiency in our younger learners, and we really ought to be […]