Bring culture, reading, and hands-on learning together with a tissue paper cempasúchil craft for El Día de Muertos! In this video, I share a simple mini craft project that supports comprehensible input while students follow directions completely in Spanish. This activity connects culture with language practice and gives students repeated exposure to informal commands in… Read More Cempasúchil Craft for Día de Muertos Spanish Class
Bring el Día de los Muertos into Spanish class with a flexible ofrenda project students can adapt by level. In this video, I share a practical project idea for creating an ofrenda in Spanish class. It can work for novice learners, Spanish 1, Spanish 2, and Spanish 3+, depending on how much language you ask… Read More Ofrenda Project for Día de los Muertos in Spanish Class
Help students build confidence narrating in the past with short, contextual preterite practice! Learning to narrate in the past takes time, especially in Spanish with so many irregular verbs. In this video, I share a simple way to give students “little and often” practice using the preterite in context. This activity focuses on talking about… Read More Preterite Practice for Talking About Halloween in Spanish
Help students build stronger past narration skills in Spanish with practical, context-rich activities! Narrating in the past takes time. Students need vocabulary, verb control, and lots of meaningful practice with forms like the preterite and imperfect. In this video, I share several ways to make past narration more approachable through conversation, personal narratives, familiar stories,… Read More Activities to Build Past Narration Skills in Spanish
Make Spanish adjective practice clearer and more interactive with opposites, silly examples, and a self-correcting sheet! In this video, I share a simple way to introduce and practice Spanish adjectives using opposites, twin-style comparisons, and polar-opposite examples. These contexts give learners a practical way to understand meaning and then use adjectives to describe themselves or… Read More Teaching Spanish Adjectives with Fun Opposites and Self-Checking Practice