Did you know that teaching Spanish introductory conversation and greetings vocabulary can actually be fun? While it’s one of the most useful topics we can teach our students because, let’s be honest, it’s the first thing they’ll need to know…
INSIDE: No-prep Spanish sub plans even a non-Spanish-speaking sub can do. 🙌🏻 I still remember the sinking feeling I would get every time Jolene walked into my classroom. Jolene was the secretary at my school and a visit from…
I was sitting on an airplane just last week flying out to Denver to visit my parents, and I was working on making lesson plans prettier. Because it makes me happy when they’re pretty. 🙃 The woman next to me…
When I started investigating comprehensible input or CI, there were so many accounts that helped me understand what CI was and learn more about activities! Having a community to turn to has been invaluable. It was so great to have…
Tick, tock! It’s time to teach your students about Spanish time. This post is chock full of great ideas for Spanish time activities, lesson plans, and resources so that your students will master telling time, pronouncing time correctly, and spelling…
It’s almost the end of the year and I can guess how you’re feeling. Let’s go with a combination of feelings. Tired? Overwhelmed? Stressed? Over it? (Yes. Over it is a feeling!) So, I created a list to help you…
I always worked in schools that required some multiple-choice tests. It’s great and all when students can fill in bubbles correctly and prove they learned something. But I want to see them use the language. And that’s where an engaging…
Sometimes a good Spanish movie is just what you need in class. Used appropriately, films can be a perfect way to spark interest when beginning a unit, for subs who don’t speak Spanish… or that day when you’re getting over…
There are a lot of intricacies and nuances to teaching Spanish commands. You start thinking, “No problem – commands – piece of cake”, but then you realize that students get confused by positive and negative commands. Next, you add the…
Oh, hey there! Long time, no see! I don’t know about you, but I’ve been a little absent for the last 11.5 months. And by absent, I mean constantly stressed to the extent that I sometimes have trouble taking a…
