Resources for sports: listening, speaking and writing

I find it interesting how my classes ebb and flow. When I taught just middle school, there was a whole sports unit in Spanish 1B. When I switched to Spanish 1, I would discuss some sports through various themes- likes and dislikes and around any big sporting event, but I didn’t create a whole unit

Aymara legend: quinoa

I have been delving back into teaching elementary this year. While many of my activities transfer, I am trying to figure out how to adapt some of my other lessons to make them work for younger students. This unit includes two of the activities that have worked for me: TPR whiteboards and a listening checklist.

Struggling to transition to comprehensible input

As more and more teachers start to incorporate comprehensible input into their classes, sometimes it just doesn’t work or click for you- or perhaps one or two of your classes.  I remember after seeing Jason Fritze teach a story in California my first year, I jumped in on Monday.  Whew.  My students literally had NO

Brillante Viernes: September 6, 2019

Happy Friday!  I hope you are winding down your week and had a successful one!  For me, I remembered that I could teach- haha!  At the beginning of every year, I think- do I remember what I am doing?  After the last class, I remember that I do!  My biggest takeaway for switching schools is

Back 2 School: Classroom decorating

  Missed the first two posts in the series?  Check out my first post about a summer round-up and my second post about emergency sub plans. Magnolia designer I am not.  Also, normally I am decorating wayyy past the time of this post.  However, here are some of my favorite tips from previous years! If

El Mundo En Tus Manos 2019-2020! Changes and more ways to use articles in your classes

Great news!  El Mundo en Tus Manos is back again for the 2019-2020 school year!  If you haven’t subscribed or downloaded a free edition, it is a five article newsletter that highlights news in the Spanish-speaking world in comprehensible Spanish.  It allows your students to become aware of what is happening throughout the world while

Time for a newsletter!

I have been dragging my feet for awhile about creating a newsletter for my blog (approximately a year and a half!)  Then, Tina Hargaden told me I should- and I felt like it was the sign I needed to create a newsletter!  My plan is: to send a monthly newsletter to feature a new video

End of year video app smash with Flipgrid, Adobe Spark and Goosechase!

So each year, I have wanted to put together an end-of-the-year video for my students.  But each year, I don’t have enough pictures or videos to make it happen.  When I was at the conference with Tina this past summer, I was committed to make it happen.  I still didn’t take nearly enough pictures this

Spring Break Saturday!

Happy Saturday!  (I am trying to keep up the alliteration!)  I am back from Disney, and I wanted to share a resource for you for Monday and a few of my favorite resources that I have seen this week. First, I have made two new Flipgrids for the month of April.  After some reflection, I

Noticias and new Flipgrid music topic

Happy Sunday!  I have two new activities for you to use in class this week!  First, I have my most recent edition of news from last week.  This week I wrote about: Spain’s fastest goal in soccer Popular restaurants in Chile Spanish fashion chain opens a new type of store Emigrants returning to Cuba Music/comedy