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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

To use this set of Spanish community helpers printables, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are listed below. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

Printer (with ink)
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Pencils
Scissors
Laminator (if you want to laminate the Spanish community helper flashcards)

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.

Scroll down to get your copy of our Spanish Community Helpers Printables!

Ready to learn more Spanish with the kids? Try these learning resources!

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

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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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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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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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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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Free Printable Flashcards: Ser and Estar Flashcards

January 6, 2015 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

¡Hola, todos! It’s time for another edition of our Free Printable Flashcards series!

This week, I’m sharing a free set of ser and estar flashcards, which are great if you’re learning español!

Ser and estar are very important verbs in Spanish, but it’s easy to confuse them. Although they have the same basic meaning, they are used in different settings.

Also, they are conjugated differently, so if you’re talking about yourself, you use one form of ser or estar and if you’re talking about someone else, you use a different conjugation for each one.

These printable Spanish flashcards are awesome for young ones (and adults) who are working on memorizing these basic Spanish verb conjugations!

Want more printables for learning Spanish? Don’t miss our Spanish family words worksheets and our printable Spanish verbs flashcards!

Learn how to use Spanish verbs for to be with these free ser and estar flashcards!

Free Spanish Ser and Estar Flashcards

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Learning the difference between the verbs ser and estar is a huge stumbling block for a lot of Spanish students.

The problem is that both verbs literally mean “to be”, so it’s very easy to mix them up.

The trick is learning when to use each one, since they’re reserved for specific contexts and meanings.

If you’re unfamiliar with the usages of ser and estar, SpanishDict has a great primer you can use to learn the basics.

Printable Flashcards for Learning Ser and Estar

In the meantime, grab our free flashcards to learn how to conjugate each verb correctly for the appropriate pronoun, such as yo (I), tú (informal you), and nosotros (we).

The pack includes one set of flashcards featuring the Spanish forms of ser and their English equivalents and a second set of cards featuring the forms of estar.

There is also a set of blank cards with just the Spanish conjugations, which kids can use to memorize their English meanings.

What we did was laminate the ser and estar flashcards that included Spanish and English.

We left the set of just Spanish cards unlaminated, so the kids could copy down the vocabulary themselves.

Scroll down to get your printable ser and estar flashcards!

Be sure to see these other Spanish learning resources!

Help early learners build a daily routine with these English and Spanish daily routine cards!

These printable Spanish zoo animal flashcards are so much fun for kids who are learning Spanish!

Ser and Estar Flashcards - Free printable flashcards for learning ser and estar conjugations in Spanish!

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Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Days of the Week Flashcards

September 22, 2014 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

We’re continuing with our Spanish learning with this pack of free printable flashcards for learning the Spanish days of the week! We’ve already covered days of the week in English, so it’s adelante a español (on to Spanish)!

I love teaching Spanish to my kids. It helps them to converse with others, learn more about another culture, and even broadens their understanding of English! (There are several English terms that are heavily influenced by words from Latin languages, including Spanish, French, and Italian.)

If you enjoy these Spanish days of the week flashcards, don’t miss our other Spanish learning resources, including our Spanish community helpers printable pack and our Spanish alphabet mega-pack!

Spanish Days of the Week Flashcards

To use these flashcards, you’ll need the following:

Printer (with ink)
Printer paper
Scissors
Laminator (if you want to reuse the cards later)

In the pack, you’ll find flashcards for each day in both English and Spanish:

Monday – lunes

Tuesday – martes

Wednesday – miércoles

Thursday – jueves

Friday – viernes

Saturday – sábado

Sunday – domingo

Don’t know how to say those words in Spanish? No worries! The flashcard set has a pronunciation guide too. 😉

Stop by Year Round Homeschooling to grab “¡Los Días de la Semana!¨Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Days of the Week!

And don’t forget to grab our other free Spanish flashcards for learning opposite words and for learning Spanish food words!

Read “Learning the Days of the Week in Spanish” at Year Round Homeschooling

Want more awesome resources for teaching Spanish to your kids? Try these posts!

Plus, get more tips for teaching foreign languages to your kids on my Foreign Language for Homeschoolers Pinterest board!

Spanish Community Helpers Printables Pack

5 Spanish Resources for Kids

5 Resources for Teaching Kids Spanish – Year Round Homeschooling

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Free Spanish Ser and Estar Flashcards

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Spanish Days of the Week Flashcards

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