Yearbook Quotes for Spanish Teachers

Looking for an inspirational quote in Spanish to sign in your students' yearbook? Here are a few suggestions:

Fotos from Instagram account: SpanishWorld1

Have a favorite quote? Share in the comments below!

Spanish Summer School Resources

Via TeacherMemes.com

If you are like me, you love your summers. For me, it's an opportunity to travel abroad and immerse myself in the Spanish language culture. For others, it may be a time to spend with family or rest. And for others, it may be an opportunity to earn some extra income by teaching summer school. If that is the case, we'd like to make your summer easier by suggesting these resources to use during your summer class.

We hope these resources engage your summer school students, whether it be an actual academic class or just a fun, camp-like experience.


Summer Spanish Printable Book
This printable activity book contains six activities that children can do over summer break, bringing language and culture to their vacation! The resource also includes a number of links for expanding on the cultural activities. The activities are 1)Recipe for making 'Paletas de fresa, 2) Summer vocabulary word search, 3)Play 'Rayuela', 4)Travel Bingo, 5)How to Make a Paper Mola, and 6)Grocery List in Spanish.


Summer Activity Set
This product includes two fun games and a word search to welcome "el verano" in your classes. Includes a bingo game, and a Yo tengo, quien tiene game. Features summer vocabulary words such as "el buzo, la pala, el sol, el cangrejo, el pez, la careta, la pelota, la paleta, la toalla, las sandalias, el traje de baño, la estrella de mar, los lentes de sol, el helado, el castillo de arena, 
la playa, el bronceador, el flotador, la silla, la sombrilla, la concha  de caracol, el balde, el pelícano, el bote."

Alma MovieTalk Lesson
Use this engaging and suspenseful short animated video to give your students comprehensible input. Includes a reading as well as a storyboard for students to re-tell the story.

Giant Board Game- Basic Spanish Questions
Turn your classroom into a GIANT Spanish board game while helping your students practice basic questions in Spanish.
This product includes 50 printable spaces and both teacher and student instructions for game play. Also included are EDITABLE spaces where you can add additional prompts or questions to target specific units or areas of weakness for your particular group of students.

Spanish Greetings and Intro Conversation
Practice greetings, introductory conversation, and small talk with this mini-unit containing 32 task cards. Simply print them out, hang them around the room or use stations to get your students engaged and creating conversation!

Spanish Animal Vocabulary
Missing Letters Animal Vocabulary Game is a fun way for students to learn and memorize animal vocabulary in Spanish without any prep (unless you want to cut the 1/2 pages puzzles in two parts!!). Students will read the clue about the animal, look for the missing letters in the oval, and unscramble them to reveal the animal! 

Spanish Speaking Country Coloring Set
Color by number flags for all 21 Hispanic countries.
Have students color these flags to make decorations for your classroom or for their rooms at home. 

End of the Year Activities

The end of the school year is in sight. The weather is getting warmer and the students are getting more restless. You need a good lesson to engage your students. We've got some great options for you for class projects and activities to get you through this!

Mundo de Pepita has this Printable Yearbook for Elementary students called "Un año entre amigos". Have students write fun messages to each other in Spanish to recall the fun times they've had in class.

Spanish Sundries uses this Giant Board Game to review for a final exam. This is a perfect lesson for those students who are always begging to play a game, while practicing answer questions at the same time.

SpanishPlans likes to have his students create and describe their own SuperHero at the end of the year.

Angie Torres uses this activity to set up 8 stations where students become the teacher to ask their peers questions to review themes from the school year.

SpanishMama talks about 10 amazing end of the year games. Whether, it's "Serpiente", "Bracket", or "Steal the Apple", these games and activities will make your students wanting more!

Emily Miller  tells us how her 2nd graders complete two year-end writing prompts: "Espero que en tercero..." (best response: "los niños aprendan a portarse bien!") and a prompt to give advice to next year's second graders. You can have your students write advice on how students can be successful in class or what to expect during the year.

Sol Azucar tells us about how she celebrates her students with End of the Year Awards. If you are looking for other ways to celebrate your students check out an earlier post.

What are your favorite end of the year activities? Share in the comments section below.

Spicing up Valentines Day

Do you have the winter blahs in your classroom?  Well, Valentine's Day is coming up soon and it's the perfect moment to re-engage your students with a few new activities.  Here are 10 Ways to Spice Up Valentine's Day in Your Classroom so that every kid leaves feeling the love.  We're language teachers, so we can teach whatever we want as long as the kids are using the target language.  Take full advantage of this and teach the kids some cheesy pickup lines, have them serenade another class, or try some speed dating.  Guaranteed good times!  To read all 10 ideas, click here.

SpanishPlans posts of the year

A great 2015 has come to a close. We started the year in South America and have since gone back to our classroom in Chicago teaching 8th grade Spanish. We highlight 5 of our top posts that we wrote in the past year that had the most views.

5. Top Reasons for and against Spanish Names:
Due to an earlier blog post, we re-opened the debate on giving your students names for Spanish class with this list of reasons for and a list of reasons against this practice. This was probably one of our most commentated posts of the year as well.

4. Spanish Webquests:
With more schools going 1-to-1 or the extended use of mobile devices, readers were interested in engaging their students with authentic websites to navigate. This post includes a web quest for clothes, food, house, soccer, and using an online dictionary.

3. Spanish Instagram:
We posted 40 authentic Instagram accounts for the Spanish classroom including accounts that post beautiful pictures from the culture, Spanish Memes, and famous accounts, among others. The use of this social media is growing as you can find many Spanish teachers on IG these days.

2. My Favorite Lessons:
Posted in the last days of 2013, this post talks about our five favorite lessons and how you can incorporate them into your class.

1. English Pop Music in Spanish
Seems like our readers certainly enjoyed finding covers of pop music including Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars translated to Spanish.

Closing: Encourage users to subscribe to your blog and what to look forward to in 2015.

Top Posts from Sra Cruz

I'm Katherine of sracruz.com.  2015 marked my first year of blogging.  As this year winds down and a new one begins, I wanted reflect on my most popular posts of the year and share them with you.

5.  Using Memes to Teach Verb Tenses

I love to joke that memes are my love language!  I have a folder of memes on my phone ready to text to my friends when the moment arrives!  Spanish memes can be a great teaching tool, especially for verb tenses.  In this post I talked about using memes in class and shared my Pinterest boards with memes grouped by verb tense and topic.

4.  Spanish Teachers on Instagram

2015 was also the year that I joined the Instagram world!  In this post I shared the 9-square stories of some of my Spanish teacher friends, talked about hashtags to use for Spanish class and to find your #spanishtribe, and linked to SpanishPlans' great post about using instagram to find authentic resources to use in your class.

3.  10 Ideas for Hispanic Heritage Month

This blog post was a compilation of 10 ideas to teach and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in Spanish class.  It has lots of activities, crafts, and teaching tools to learn about and celebrate the histories, culture, and contributions of Hispanic Americans.

2.  Adding Culture to Your Spanish Class

If you struggle to fit in culture with the rigor of your Spanish curriculum, this post is for you!  This talks about how I've used a resource called Cultura Diaria to teach a Hispanic culture facts for each day of Spanish class.  It's a great class starter and resource to help you teach culture every day.

1.  First Days of Spanish Class

My most popular post of 2015 was a 3-part post on what to do during the first days of Spanish class.  I talk about relationship-building activities, going over rules and procedures, and using TPR vocabulary to get students speaking and understanding right away.  

Don't miss any posts in 2016!  You can subscribe to my blog or follow me on Bloglovin.  Happy New Year!  

Fun for Spanish Teacher's Top Posts of the Year

¡Hola! My name is Carolina, and I run a blog called “Fun for Spanish Teachers,”  a little corner of the internet dedicated to build connections and share ideas amongst the world language teachers anywhere on this planet! I have been teaching for 15 year in the United States, and I love having a space where I can share what has or hasn’t worked for me in the classroom. After all, teaching is always filled with surprises that you constantly learn from.  My goal for the upcoming year is to continue adding content for the elementary level, but I also plan to grow to offer more for middle school teachers! I invite you to subscribe to my blog to stay tuned for more teaching tips, ideas, and resources for Spanish class.

Here are the most visited posts in the 2015!

5. An Idea For The First Day of School
It doesn’t matter how long you have been teaching, the “first day butterflies” in your stomach are real! This post gives you some ideas for that first day. Many of the ideas shared in this post can be adapted for different levels.

4. 10 Cultural Games for Spanish Class

Knowing how to bring language, culture, and fun together is key when teaching Spanish at any level. This post is a compilation of some traditional games that students at the elementary, middle, and even high school level will enjoy. And YES, you will be teaching language in context!

3. Spanish Teachers to Follow on Social Media

This post lists a group of Spanish teachers of different levels who are active on social media. All in one place!

2. Ready, Set, Go! Ideas for Traveling Teachers

Not having a classroom represents a challenge for many teachers at the elementary level. Since many visuals and props are needed, and we teach so many different grades, this requires a special degree of organization and planning. In this post, I share how I've tackled this challenge, and what has worked for

me. If you are a traveling teacher, you might be able to find some useful ideas here!

1. Five  Reasons to Use Interactive Student Notebooks in Elementary Spanish Class

Interactive Student Notebooks have been a life-saver for me and a wonderful teaching tool at the elementary school level. I started using them last year and fell in love with them! Finally, the Interactive Student Notebook is a way to keep my students’ work in one place and an awesome tool to connect with parents.