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¡El Alfabeto! Spanish Alphabet Literacy Center for Kids

May 25, 2021 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Teaching literacy in early grades is just plain fun. And literacy centers make it even more enjoyable – for us and our students.

More and more early learners are working on learning Spanish. Which is a great thing.

Learning how to use more than one language is fantastic for brain development, social skills, and creative thought – particularly for early grades!

And that’s why I’m excited to share this printable Spanish alphabet literacy center for kindergarten and first grade!

This huge resource is an awesome start to teaching children the Spanish alphabet and common Spanish words!

And if you’re working with ESL students, this is also a wonderful way to practice early literacy skills.

Read on to see how to get your copy (and a free sample)!

Need more ideas for teaching Spanish? Don’t miss our list of books for learning Spanish in early grades!

El Alfabeto Spanish Alphabet Literacy Center for Kids

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Spanish Alphabet Lesson for Early Grades

This resource is jam-packed with hands-on Spanish alphabet literacy activities.

And I mean, packed.

Spanish Alphabet Learning Flashcards for Kids

This early literacy resource includes two sets of color Spanish alphabet word flashcards (plus line art versions).

The first set features words and pictures, while the second features pictures and a blank rectangle.

Students can cut and paste the alphabet word labels onto the cards. Or you can use hook and loop dots to make them into a reusable activity.

Spanish Alphabet Cut and Paste Activity for Kids

There’s a cut and paste alphabet word worksheet (with a line art version).

And an answer key for this and each activity too!

Spanish Alphabet Phonics Worksheet for Kids

After learning how to pronounce each word, help your students review beginning sounds with two pages of match the letter sound worksheets.

Line art versions of these are included too.

Spanish Alphabet Trace and Write Activity

Plus, there are seven pages of read, trace, and write worksheets to help students practice writing and reading each Spanish word.

And a line art version if you need to save on ink!

Want to use all of the review activities at centers? Simply laminate each page and let students complete them with dry erase markers.

Get a look at some of this Spanish literacy center in action in the video below!

Spanish Alphabet Pronunciation Chart for Kids

This Spanish early literacy center also includes a pronunciation chart for each of the Spanish words in the resource.

This is so handy if you need to help your students isolate the syllables in each word.

Spanish Alphabet Pronunciation Chart for Kids

A color and line art version is included. And, even better, you can get this pronunciation chart free!

Keep reading for details.

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Printable Spanish Pronunciation Chart for Kids

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Printable Spanish Letter Worksheets for Kids

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Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Months of the Year Flashcards

January 28, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Want to learn more español with your kids? These Spanish months of the year flashcards are perfect for learning los meses del año!

You can use these for calendar time, spelling practice, a matching game, and more. And, since the English and Spanish month words are on each card, you can even use them to introduce the months of the year in English. Great for a preschool calendar unit!

If you’ve been following along with our free printable flashcards series, you’ll remember that we’ve already featured Spanish days of the week flashcards, Spanish food flashcards, Spanish family flashcards, and Spanish opposite word flashcards. Be sure to add these to your growing Spanish flashcards collection!

Need more Spanish language learning resources? Don’t miss our list of kids’ books for learning Spanish at home!

What’s In the Spanish Months of the Year Flashcards Pack?

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This pack includes three sets of months of the year flashcards. One set features both English and Spanish months, another features only English, and the third displays the Spanish months and abbreviations only.

Use them to review English and Spanish months of the year with your young learners!

As you’ll notice, the months of the year are not capitalized in Spanish. Don’t worry! That’s not a typo. 🙂

In Spanish, days of the week and months of the year are both written in all lowercase letters.

The resource also includes a pronunciation key to help you say the words correctly.

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Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Number Flashcards 1-10

November 5, 2018 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

We’re back to learning español this week with a new set of free printable flashcards! This time, we’re sharing Spanish number flashcards for numbers 1-10!

Childhood is a wonderful time to learn a foreign language. Kids’ brains just slurp up the nuances of language like you would not believe. So why not give them a head start? Plus, Spanish is super fun to use!

If you like these, don’t miss the rest of our printable Spanish flashcards! There are sets featuring Spanish verbs, clothing words, days of the week in Spanish, and more!

What’s In the Spanish Number Flashcards 1-10 Pack?

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This pack of Spanish number flashcards lets kids learn both English and Spanish number words at the same time!

Use the first set to review both languages, then the second to practice reading and comprehending Spanish number words alone.

Each card includes the number and the number words for reinforcement, especially with early learners.

A pronunciation guide is also included, so you’ll get a chance to practice saying each number correctly.

Scroll down to get your free Spanish number flashcards 1-10 set!

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Easy Spanish for Kids with Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids®

April 20, 2018 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

We’ve been learning Spanish with our kids for the past few years and, while they’ve been enjoying their lessons, they’ve also seemed just a little bit…bored in the process.

It’s understandable. When you learn a foreign language, you spend a lot of time repeating vocabulary words, listening to rules of grammar, and writing sentences over and over. That can get old pretty quickly, especially for little ones.

I looked around for a program that would be more kid-friendly without being too easy. And that’s when I found out about the Spanish curriculum from Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids®, which is exactly what I was looking for!

With this program, my kids are learning Spanish and having fun at the same time! Worried about time commitments? You can use this program in as little as 15 minutes twice a week!

Read on to see how this Spanish for kids program works and check out how you can score a coupon code or win a copy of the Level 1 lesson free!

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Easy Spanish for Kids: Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids®

What’s included in the Spanish for Kids program from Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids®? Here’s a look at Levels 1 and 2.

Since we were using the online Spanish curriculum, we received printed workbooks, vocabulary card games, word stickers, a plushie of Squisher, the International Inchworm, a mini frisbee, and a pencil. My five-year-old ran off with Squisher and I haven’t seen him since.

As you can see, the Spanish curriculum includes multiple levels to help kids build on the vocabulary they learn. There are also online quizzes and practice activities for them to try. By the way, if you don’t want to use the online program, you can pick up the Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids® Spanish DVD set instead.

In the video lessons, kids use Spanish vocabulary words to have simple conversations. Common objects are labeled with the Spanish vocabulary words for them. (Kids get a chance to do this in their own homes too, as you’ll see later on.)

Vocabulary words are also introduced on the screen as kids see each object.

Plus, they can use the Rapid Review challenge at the end of each level to test their memory of the vocabulary words they learn.

What I love the most about the video lessons, though, is that each lesson follows a simple storyline that’s understandable and funny. My kids couldn’t wait to see what happened next! They enjoyed watching each lesson because it was entertaining and then they wanted to act out the scenes themselves. They were practicing Spanish vocabulary without even knowing it!

After each video lesson, kids can take a reading quiz that gives them a chance to match up the vocabulary words with pictures from the video.

They can also take a listening quiz to practice identifying Spanish words when they hear them. (Personally, understanding what is said to me has always been my weakest area in Spanish. So helping kids learn to do this early is a great skill.)

Using Foreign Language for Kids by Kids® Spanish for Kids Lessons

While the video lessons from Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids® are awesome, they’re only half of the program! The curriculum also includes lots of workbook and hands-on activities to reinforce what kids learn from the video clips.

We used several of the enclosed Level 1 stickers to label common objects around our home.

All of the vocabulary words were covered in the video lesson, so it was easy for the kids to spot them on their own.

They even learned to use basic expressions such as me gusta (I like) and no me gusta (I don’t like). As you can see, it was easy for them to figure out which things they like and don’t like around our house.

We printed a couple of pages from the digital workbook to let them try a few Spanish learning worksheets.

My third-grader was partial to the word search.

And my fourth-grader liked drawing pictures of things he liked and didn’t like. He doesn’t like cleaning – something I was already WELL aware of.

After we completed level 1, we broke out the Level 1 vocabulary cards to play a spirited game of Go Fish.

The vocabulary cards include pictures of objects and scenes from the video lessons and written expressions for the kids to match up.

Even our five-year-old got in on the fun!

My children are having a ball learning Spanish for kids with Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids®! Interested in checking out the program? You can choose from the Early Learner Set for young ones, a Single Level Set if you want to go slowly, or the Super Set if you’re ready to learn Spanish for the long haul!

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Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Zoo Animal Flashcards

April 17, 2018 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

What kid doesn’t love going to the zoo? We take ours every month and they always find a new animal to obsess over. Last time, it was the lions. (To be fair, lions are pretty awesome.)

Since we’re still working on teaching our kids Spanish, I thought I’d make up a set of Spanish zoo animal flashcards! These feature several popular zoo animals in both English and Spanish, which means you can use them to teach kids how to identify zoo animals in either language!

Read on to see how to get yours! And don’t forget to check out our other printable Spanish flashcards, including Spanish clothing word flashcards, Spanish family flashcards, and more!

Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Zoo Animal Flashcards

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This flashcard pack includes the Spanish and English words for the following animals:

Elephant
Giraffe
Hippo
Lion
Monkey
Panda
Tiger
and Zebra!

A complete pronunciation key is also included, so you and the kids will be able to practice pronouncing each animal word correctly.

Scroll down to see how to get your copy of our Spanish Zoo Animal flashcards!

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Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Weather Flashcards

March 22, 2018 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

Learning about how to talk about the weather is a great way to build a foreign language vocabulary. Just think about it: How many times a week do you mention the weather in English? A lot, right? I think I must tell my kids “It’s windy!” a dozen times a day. Especially when I need them to remember their hats.

So for our newest set of printable Spanish flashcards, we’re sharing a Spanish Weather Flashcards pack! These cards are great for learning how to use common Spanish weather expressions! Read on to get yours!

Ready to try more Spanish vocabulary practice for kids? Be sure to check out our Spanish Clothing Flashcards and our Spanish Parts of the Body flashcards while you’re here!

Printable Spanish Flashcards: Spanish Weather Flashcards

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In this flashcard pack, you’ll find Spanish expressions for the following phrases:

It’s sunny
It’s cloudy
It’s hot
It’s cold
It’s windy
It’s snowing
It’s raining
It’s hailing

In addition, the pack contains a set of flashcards featuring the English expressions and a set with just the pictures for easy quizzing!

You’ll also find a Spanish pronunciation guide to help you learn how to say each phrase correctly. That way, you won’t have to guess at how to say each phrase. 🙂

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Spanish Community Helpers Printables

May 6, 2016 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

We love learning Spanish in our homeschool! And we’ve been sharing printable Spanish flashcards on the blog over the past several months. This time, though, I wanted to share something a bit more extensive. Which is how we came up with these Spanish community helpers printables!

These are an excellent addition to a community helpers unit for preschool or early elementary grades. Or if you’re working on learning basic Spanish vocabulary with older kids, let them work with the pronunciation guide and flashcards for memorization!

If you enjoy these, check out some of our other Spanish learning printables, including our A to Z Español Super Pack, our Spanish Verb Flashcards, or our Spanish Telling Time Worksheets!

Spanish Community Helpers Printables Pack

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This printable pack features Spanish and English words and images for eight different community helpers:

Doctor
Veterinarian
Dentist
Firefighter
Crossing Guard
Farmer
Police Officer
and Chef!

There are printable flashcards for each community helper in English and Spanish, as well as full-size pages with the English and Spanish words and traceable phrases for practice.

One note: Some of the phrases are gender-specific. For example, the image of the firefighter is a woman, so the phrase is “la bombera”.

If the firefighter is a man, though, the phrase would be “el bombero“. The same is true with the phrase for doctor: a female doctor would be “la médica“, while a male doctor would be “el médico“.

A full pronunciation guide is also provided!

Using the flashcards is a great way to help kids memorize these words in both languages!

Kids can take turns matching the English to Spanish community helper words using the corresponding flashcards. Plus, there are cards that have no pictures at all – to help them learn to recognize the vocabulary words.

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This post is part of the Community Helpers Unit Study Roundup! Check out these posts by my fellow bloggers!

Community Helpers Letter Find Worksheets from 3 Boys and a Dog

Teaching Children to Appreciate Community Helpers from Crafty Mama in ME

How Kids Can Help In The Community from Play Dough & Popsicles

Fire Station Tour from Something 2 Offer

Community Service Books from The Jenny Evolution

Community Helpers in the UK from Tales of Education at Home

Community Helpers Graphing Game from Simple Fun for Kids

Community Helper Learning Toys from Brain Power Boy

Community Helper SuDoKu from Royal Baloo

Community Helper Vocabulary Printable from Schooling a Monkey

5 Spanish Resources for Kids

November 10, 2015 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

We love learning Spanish in our homeschool and we’ve featured many printables and programs for learning it on the blog over the years. But there are also online resources for learning Spanish that are super helpful for teaching it to children. See some of my picks in today’s post!

Today is Tuesday, so it’s also time for another party with the Laugh and Learn linkup! See our features from last week below and then read the newest posts on parenting and homeschooling!

5 Spanish Resources for Kids

Spanish is so frequently spoken in the U.S. now that, in some areas, it’s almost a native language instead of a foreign one. To me, that makes learning Spanish a necessity for our kids, not a hobby. So I’ve looked around for some good online Spanish resources that make teaching español to kids easier!

Stop by Year Round Homeschooling to check out five of the resources I’ve found for teaching kids how to speak Spanish!

5 Resources for Teaching Kids Spanish – Year Round Homeschooling

For even more Spanish learning fun, check out some of our other Spanish language posts!

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Welcome to our 58th week of Laugh and Learn – Homeschool and Parenting Linkup!

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Tina

Tina lives abroad in Latin America with her husband and four children. Currently in Mexico, Tina is active in homeschool, travel, and her Bible ministry. She blogs about all of their adventures, and more at Los Gringos Locos.
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Selena is a writer and a homeschooling mom to four kids, including three with ADHD/SPD. Selena and her husband, Jay, are committed to teaching their children at home and loving every minute of it! You can read about the family’s homeschooling experiences at Look! We’re Learning, written by Selena!
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Sarah lives in Kentucky, USA, where she and her husband homeschool three children. Sarah writes for and about, families with special needs. She hopes to provide support and encouragement to all special needs parents in the homeschool community. Visit Sarah at Dedicated Homeschooler.
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Haley hopes to encourage stay at home moms. She wants to help them learn how to make an extra income, to stretch a budget, to make crafts, and other useful information. Haley always has updates on the kids, and their funny antics. Visit Haley at Haley’s Vintage Finds & Deals.
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Lindsey Marie is a passionate writer eager to touch the hearts and minds of her readers. As a devoted mother to two, happy homeschooler, and scatterbrained housewife, she’s on a mission to find love and joy in “the simple life” and invites you to join her! She shares this journey with you at The Nitty Gritty Mom .
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The Winners for the Week of October 27th:

Tina’s pick for this week…

Note from Tina:
My kids love Play-Doh (I think they will like moon dough too!) I love lavender essential oils. What a great idea to mix the them together!
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Selena’s pick for this week…

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Science is probably the only school subject I fear teaching, especially as my kids get older. Learning to investigate these topics at an early age will help my kids become more scientifically-inclined for the later grades.
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Sarah’s pick for this week…

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I really appreciated these tips for teaching self control to children. We’ve struggled with this on and off for years. It has taken consistency, and a great deal of self control on our parts to teach it well.
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Haley’s pick for this week…

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I love these tips! We were just talking about starting an allowance for our kids and her tips for the 3 jar system will be handy.
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Lindsey’s pick for this week…

Note from Lindsey:
I’ve been wanting to dive into lapbooking for a while now and Tina’s idea-filled post makes it so much easier.
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How to Teach Sign Language to Preschoolers

June 16, 2015 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

As you might be aware, we use Sign Language fairly often in our family. (For examples, see here, here, here, and here.) Many experts agree that the years from birth to age 5 are the prime years for introducing a foreign language to kids. But is it really possible to teach sign language to preschoolers?

Of course it is! Baby sign language has become extremely popular, so preschoolers are naturals as signing. But what does it take to teach ASL to very young children? Today I’m sharing a post I wrote for Learning 2 Walk that’s all about how to teach sign language to preschoolers!

Today is also another edition of the Laugh and Learn Linkup, so scroll on down to read our features from last week and the newest parenting and homeschooling posts!

How to Teach Sign Language to Preschoolers

One of the biggest suggestions I can give to teach ASL to preschool-aged kids is to keep it extremely simple and relaxed. When young children have fun, they end up learning naturally! And there’s no reason why learning sign language shouldn’t be fun!

For even more tips and suggestions, visit Learning 2 Walk to read the post “How to Teach Sign Language for Preschoolers“!