Dual language prek classroom

Need some guidance for teaching preschool Spanish? You’re in the right place! Young children are the perfect age to soak up a new language. I'm currently raising my own three kids bilingually, and have taught classes to this age group as well. It's never too late to start, and 3-5 year olds are really fun to teach! In this post I've compiled my favorited strategies for you. To get started in learning Spanish together, you Can Do three things: 1. Outline some beginning topics. You can create…

We had a request for anchor charts from PreK. So here you go! I took these photos at Gabriela Mistral Early Childhood Center in HISD in Houston. What a fabulous school for 4 year olds! My friend, M…

Bilingual classroom decor. Center or station posters for the bilingual English-Spanish or Dual Language Classroom for your back to school classroom decor. English words are in blue and Spanish words are in red, for those following the Gomez & Gomez model. It includes 31 center signs to label your learning stations and cards for the pocket chart.

Here a few pictures of my dual language classroom last year. These were taken in March. It was my first year in Dual Language and what a le...

These printable Spanish color word playdough mats are perfect for early learners who are practicing color recognition! Great for early literacy centers too!

If you teach Spanish reading to beginning readers in the USA more than likely you are expected to teach high frequency words. Here are 3 things you may want to keep in mind when teaching these words: 1. Spanish high frequency words are not sight words. Sight words in English, are words that usually cannot be decoded phonetically or 'sounded out'. Because of this, we teach children to recognize them by 'sight’ that is, to memorize them. Spanish however, is a mostly phonetic language, words…

Atención bilingual teachers! Check out these 9 Spanish back to school books that are perfect for the dual language classroom. Plus I include activities for each book 📚❤️

I have always believed that it takes a ‘special’ kind of heart to be a kindergarten teacher – sugar maybe? As an upper elementary educator, I often take for granted that children come to me already knowing how to hold a pencil or writing words with spaces between them. This week, I had the rare [...]

Working with a Buddy Chart

I love classroom jobs. It was something I overlooked for the first 2-3 years of teaching but once I implemented student jobs in my Spanish immersion class the magic happened. Here are three things I learned from implementing student’s jobs (trabajos del salon) in my Spanish classrooms: 1. Student’s love jobs. My kids were always ... Read More about Classroom Jobs in Spanish