Teaching Spanish one hour at a time

I've started teaching beginning Spanish lessons to our neighbor's little boy (kindergartener) and in return my daughter is taking piano lessons from his mom.  It's great because it forces me to do a lot of review with my kids.  Boy can my kiddos act up having their mom as their teacher.   Here's what we did today.

• Simon dice-- to practice body parts
• Head and shoulders knees and toes in Spanish
• Power glide Spanish
• Numbers - 10 in Spanish
• Sang "1, 2, 3"  (track 6) from Sing A Lingo (I heard my kids singing this later throughout the day.  Score!)
• Simple conversation using hola, ¿Cómo te llamas?, Me llamo,  ¿Cómo estás?, bien, mal, así así and adiós.
• My students then got to cut and paste using some of their new vocabulary words from the  Teach Them Spanish Kindergarten book.
• Played outside jumping on numbers I had written in chalk saying each number in Spanish as we jumped on it.
• Counted things the kids collected in Spanish.  (This reminds me of some of our Spanish at the park outings.)

This week I plan to review the above and...

• Sing the Siete Dias song to learn the days of the week at the calendar.

To the tune of The Adams Family

Siete días (snap, snap)

Siete días (snap, snap)

Siete días (3x) (snap, snap)

Hay domingo y hay lunes 

martes y miércoles

jueves y viernes 

Y después hay sábado   

Siete días (snap, snap)

Siete días (snap, snap)

Siete días (3x) (snap, snap)

• Sing and dance to tracks 4, 5 and 8 from Sing A Lingo. Each of these songs (Marcha, Ponte a bailar and lava las manos) incorporates body vocabulary.
• Sing "Cinco deditos" to the tune of 10 little Indians

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco

Cinco deditos son

• Play dominoes to review numbers through 10 using this free printout.

• Say and act out the Los Sentidos poem to review body vocabulary.

 Here are some of my other preschool Spanish class lessons:

August