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Spanish Word of the Day
Get the Spanish – Word of the Day widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!
September 8, 2009 (10:30 am)
How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class
September 2, 2009 (9:30 pm)
Mexican Independence Day (History 1)
Mexican Independence Day (History 2)
Mexican Independence War images
Mexican Flag and its symbolism 1
Mexican Flag and its symbolism 2
Mexican Flag: Enchanted Learning
Word Search, Lesson Plans, and activities
Recipe: Tacos de Camarón al Pastor
Videos
Sept. 15: Richard Sandoval, author of “Modern Mexican Flavors,” cooks up authentic Mexican dishes with the “Today” show’s Al Roker.
August 15, 2009 (11:30 p.m.)
Kuna Indians Article
Photos of the Kuna Indians
July 29, 2009 (10:00 p.m.)
Cute Ad (cartoon) announcing 2009 Festival
July 15, 2009 (10:30 p.m.)
Sol y Sombra
Spanish Dance Co.
Heckscher Park
Rte 25A Huntington
Friday, July 17th @ 8:30pm
Free
Marco Antonio Solis and Pepe Aguilar in Concert
Madison Square Garden
Seventh Avenue between 33rd and 31st Streets
Manhattan, NY
Marco Antonio Solis and Pepe Aguilar in Concert
When: Sep. 5: 8 p.m.
Price: $69-$139.50
Information: 877-598-8694
Events at this location
Sep. 5
Marco Antonio Solis and Pepe Aguilar in Concert
June 28, 2009 (10:00 p.m.)
Video de chupinazo – video
Rockets and person announce beginning of the festival
(right side of page)
Beginning of San Fermín Festival – video
Toros en cartel – video
Bull displays on balcones
Balcones para ver el encierro de San Fermín
Hemingway and Bullfights in Spain
Pamplona, Spain…A reading from Hemingway’s works on these subjects, including “The Sun Also Rises”…then some John Dos Passos comments on Ernest in Spain.
A.E. Hotchner is interviewed
clips of Spain and bullfighting
this segment excerpted from the PBS documentary series “American Masters”, the episode titled “Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
June 1, 2009 (12:43 a.m.)
Cody’s Cuentos
Learn Spanish with Codys Cuentos! Audio cuentos, classic fairy tales in Spanish, audiocuentos infantiles
OnlineFreeSpanish.com was created to offer free Spanish lessons for both children and parents, whether for educational purposes, or just for fun.
At MindZeit Spanish online, most of the resources listed are free. Many include a range of multimedia elements, such as video, audio and flash animation.
Spanish-Language Website about Mexico for Children
A Spanish-language website for teaching children about Mexico
Tulane LARC Publications and On-Line Resources
The Latin American Resource Center at Tulane University has produced a variety of print and slide materials available for purchase. In an effort to make these materials affordable and more readily available, they have begun the process of digitizing these curriculum resources. Eventually, all Resource Center publications will be available for free in electronic format.
Items currently available for free download include 6 curriculum units, slide packets, and Latin American resource guides.
Memory Strategies
Students can learn 13 memory strategies and 6 ways to feed and exercise their brains
Pair and small group work
Assign the Teen Travel Experts Webquest to your Spanish learners. Be sure that each role for the quest is assigned and that learners have the time and opportunity to work together to achieve the quest.
This project provides all materials needed including Evaluation Rubrics.
World Language Resources for Elementary School Teachers
Encarta’s webpage in Spanish offers articles, an encyclopaedia and bilingual dictionary. In addition there are links to:
Arte, Lengua, Literatura, Ciencias de la vida y
de la tierra, Ciencias sociales, Deportes. Aficiones, Animales de compañia, Filosofia, Religion, Fisica, Quimica, Matematicas, Tecnologia, Geografia, Historia, Musica. Artes escenicas, Espectaculos
May 11, 2009 (11:45 p.m.)
Ideas for Establishing Partners in the Classroom
Virtual Item Bank
The Virtual Item Bank (VIB) provides teachers with practical ideas and models for developing classroom assessments. Items are based on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and on the modes of communication as defined by Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century.
Children’s Weather Activities at Linguafun
Wikis in the World Language Classroom: Transforming Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Preparation with Technology
AP Annual Conference 2009
July 15-19, 2009
Self Assessments from the Interagency Language Roundtable
Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding
The booklet, available online, provides short, adaptable lesson plans and activities that build cross-cultural awareness, respect, and communication in your classroom. Lessons are flexible, easy to use, and standards-based.
Access this booklet
May 1, 2009 (10:30 p.m.)
Cinco de Mayo Recipes
caution: bottom of page includes recipes for drinks
How to Decorate for Cinco de Mayo
The Mexican Flag
An explanation of it’s symbolism
April 30, 2009 (11:55 p.m.)
Spanish Regents Exams
There is an ongoing archive that goes back to 1998
Spanish Proficiency Exams
There is an ongoing archive that goes back to 1998
March 15, 2009 (10:00 p.m.)
Easter E-Card
Cute flamenco e-card
Spanish Easter Word Search – Easy
Spanish Easter Word Search – Medium
Pan de Pascua – Easter Bread Recipe (Spanish)
Metric measures are used for the recipe
Spanish Easter Sunday Menu and Recipes - Menu de Domingo de Pascua
March 6, 2009 (11:55 p.m.)
abc teach
free printable pages and worksheets
This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers.
Spanish Worksheets & Display Materials
Includes PowerPoint, Adobe pdf, and Word docs
Songs for Teaching Spanish (ALL levels)
This site provides audio clips but the main purpose to sell their DVD’s. Some of this is good and the prices are NOT over the top.
LangMedia – Spanish in Spain
Topics: Basic Communication, Culture and Social Life, Necessities, Shopping and Services, Transportation
Some sub-sections include transcripts and Video
December 22, 2008 (10:00 p.m.)
Twas the Night Before Christmas” (English-Spanish version)
December 14, 2008 (9:30 pm)
December 10, 2008 (10:00 pm)
Christmas (Navidad) Vocabulary
Mexico’s Christmas Traditions and Customs
(Information is in English)
ALWAYS preview materials, for appropriateness, before showing them in class.
December 8, 2008
December 6, 2008 (10:30 pm)
Twas the night before Christmas (Sp and Eng mix)
Navidad Latina
Everything “Navidad” from activities to recipes
Navidad Digital
Contiene villancicos (con letras, videos y música), recetas, belenes, fotos, sms, árboles, misc., enlaces.
As ALWAYS DO preview everything in advance of using it in class.
Manualidades de navidad
Adornos, recortables, tarjetas y mucho más
November 21, 2008
Some Spanish Thanksgiving Vocabulary
About.com
Thanksgiving K-3 Theme Page
Don’t let the “title” fool you. Visit the site you might get some ideas for your Spanish students!
Enchanted Learning
Spanish Thanksgiving Vocabulary
Familiarize, Learn, Test, Play Scatter, Play Space Race
123Greeting
Es el Día de Acción de Gracias… el momento perfecto de celebrar y extender la mano a sus seres queridos. Envíe una de las hermosas etarjetas del Día de Acción de Gracias para hacer memorable esta ocasión alegre para sus amigos/conocidos y familia. Envíe sus deseos por felicidad y prosperidad en abundancia y deséeles un Día de Acción de Gracias maravilloso con estas etarjetas cordiales.
Send Free Online Greeting Cards to your friends & loved ones. ALL cards are absolutely FREE !!!
November 14, 2008 (9:30 pm)
The Tale of the Three Little Pigs
Interactive Story
Caperucita Roja
Interactive Story
Los Tres Cabritillos Traviesos
Interactive Story
Rubiales y los Tres Osos
Interactive Story
Mil cuentos
Many stories with Graphics drawn by young students. Words to the story appear on screen and are spoken by young native speakers.
Vedoque
Juegos y materiales educativos
Many activities for different levels of Spanish
Cuentos Infantiles y Juveniles
Chabelo
Create your own stories or listen and watch “La Princesa del Bosque”
Lee y serás
Upon entering site look at page top for “español” and click
November 8, 2008 (10:00 pm)
MORE TOOLS FOR EDUCATORS
Rubrics – all kinds, all subjects
Forms and Letters – See section beginning with “Academic”
Tools for Teachers
Quiz Generators, Worksheets and Flashcards, Games and Puzzles, Certificates, Awards and Charts, Forms, Surveys and Calendar Generators, Misc. Tools, Templates for the Classroom, Places to Post Homework, Free or Inexpensive Web Page Builders, Places to Store Bookmarks and Documents Online, Free E-mail Accounts – Some are “gratis” others not!
Draw Hands
Need some clocks for students learning to tell time. Here you can create a page of clocks online. Clocks can be set for 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes and one hour intervals. Clocks are provided with time notation below each clock. The student puts the hands on the clock. Though you man NOT want to use their time intervals, select a time interval and once you print the page you can white out the times provided.
SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS
Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.
Sites using Hot Potatoes
Audacity
Free Cross-Platform Sound Editor
Audacity Wiki Home
Using Audacity – for How-to
You can find many GOOD tutorials for “Audacity” at www.youtube.com
FUN STUFF
Canon Paper Craft
Make all sorts of things out of paper. Categories include: Animals, Craftown, Lucky Items, Architecture, Science, Vehicles, Toys, Parties and Events. Any pattern you select will be in color. Then just cut and paste as per directions. This can add some “cute” props for a lesson or the classroom.
Salt Dough Recipe
This recipe may be helpful if there is a project which requires small models to be made.
Calendars for 2009
3 Dimensional Calendars (for 2009) which can be printed, folded and pasted together. Nice for your desk or a nice incentive for individual students whom you’d like to encourage. Shapes available: Triangular, Tetrahedron, Hexagonal.
Classroom Fun
Generate Bingo Cards (words or numbers only), Word Searches, Mazes, Crossword Puzzles, Word Scrambles, Sentences Scrambles
Tools for Educators
Free Worksheets, Dominoes, Bingo Boards, Handouts, Board Games, and more! YES, can be used by foreign language teachers.
November 7, 2008 (10:00 pm)
FREE worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images from Toolsforeducators.com Use these printout generators, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with pictures or text . They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful.
Rubistar – A Free rubric maker online
Maps of other “Metros” Around the World
Maps of International Cities
A-M
Maps of International Cities
N-Z
November 2, 2008 (9:30 pm)
Walker Art Center
Slideshow and audio include
October 21, 2008 (10:00 pm)
Arts and Crafts
Day of the Dead information for teachers and students
Download “packet” .pdf file (22 pages of information, 5 pages bibliography
Packet Contents:
Bibliography
4 coloring pages
Word search game
Mix and match puzzle
Papel picado lesson plan, including an easy-to-use template for younger children.
Calavera mask project
Skeleton puppet project
Free Día de los muertos e-cards
Handmade decorations are what Día de los Muertos is all about
Easy Paper Flowers
Day of the Dead
(El Dia de los Muertos)
Mexican Crafts and Activities
Día de los muertos (Recipes)
Day of the Dead Bread – pan de muertos
Sugar Skulls- How to make Sugar Skulls Step-by-Step
Candied Pumpkin – Calabaza En Tacha
How To Make Chocolate Coffins and Skulls
Arroz con Leche- A Mexican Rice Pudding
How to Make Calacas
Dough Recipe Sheet
Day of the Dead in the YAHOO! Directory
Society and Culture, Food and Drink, Cooking, Recipes, Holidays and Occassions, Día de los muertos
Sugar Skulls Recipe
(Perhaps this is an easier recipe)
2 cups powdered sugar
1 egg white
1 tablespoon corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon. vanilla
1/3 cup cornstarch
food coloring
small paintbrush
1. In a small bowl, mix the egg white, corn syrup and vanilla.
2. Slowly stir in powdered sugar until a thick paste forms.
3. Turn out onto a board lightly dusted with cornstarch.
4. Knead dough until smooth.
5. Place dough in storage bag or covered bowl and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.
6. Pinch off pieces of dough and form into skulls. Let dry completely before decorating.
7. Decorate with food coloring, colored sprinkles or cake icing from a tube.
October 20, 2008 (10:30 pm)
Día de los muertos
Curriculum Unit for Third Year students
Thematic Unit .pdf file (63 pages) 106.28 MB
Spanish Halloween Worksheet and Flash Cards
Word Search and Flash Cards. There is a Game description that comes with the Flash Cards.
Halloween Tic Tac Toe Game: Communication fun for Foreign Language and ESL Learners
E-Book download – small price $0.94
Description
Tic Tac Toe, three in a row! Learn how to adapt the classic game of tic tac toe into a versatile, communicative, and SPOOKY communicative activity. You’ll receive instructions, modifications, X’s, O’s, and an eye-catching Halloween tic tac toe grid with ghosts, witches, bats, and more! Just print and go.
ACTFL Video Podcast Contest
Contest deadline: December 1, 2008
October 18, 2008 (10:00 pm)
Don Quijote for younger students.
Conoce a los personajes de la obra
Descubre el personaje misterioso
All of the above resources came from
http://www.quijote.tv/
There are MANY other resources on the site for advanced students.
October 13, 2008 (10:15 pm)
Here is a collection of resources and ideas for teaching students about the Day of the Dead and Halloween in Hispanic Countries:
Online videos about Day of the Dead are available at http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/video .
Some pumpkins with different emotions to color are available at http://www.kidsturncentral.com/coloring/xpumpkincp9.htm .
A YouTube video of kite-flying for Guatemala’s Day of the Dead is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSWHhMH1QA .
Several FLTEACH users several years ago suggested making sugar skulls or else making rice crispy treats with a skull mold and decorating them with M&Ms and other candy.
Some Halloween craft ideas and supporting materials are available from Ben and Jerry’s website at http://www.benjerry.com/fun_stuff/holidays/halloween/crafts/index.cfm .
Instructions for making papel picado projects are available at http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/mexico/mpapel_picado.htm , http://www.storyboardtoys.com/gallery/Jerome.htm , and http://www.internationalfolkart.org/eventsedu/education/muertos/papelpicado.html .
A curriculum module on Ofrendas is available from MERLOT at http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82033 .
More classroom activity ideas are available at http://www.questconnect.org/oaxaca_dod_activities.htm .
A long thematic unit on Day of the Dead is available from Mis Cositas at http://www.miscositas.com/El%20Dia%20de%20los%20Muertos.pdf .
October 12, 2008
Día de los muertos resources
How to prepare a Dia de los muertos food celebration
In-Flight Movie el dia de los muertos (4 minutes)
Instrucciones para hacer papel picado
(At the end video indicates Día de la independencia de México but papel picado is used for Día de los muertos also)
October 1, 2008 (9:30 p.m.)
Houghton Mifflin Transparencies
Spanish Newspapers and Magazines currently online
Hispanic Art Links
artists, museums, galleries, and on-line collections of Hispanic art
Resources for Fans of Mexican Film/Music
September 26, 2008 (8:30 p.m.)
Sociedad Hispánica Honoraria (High School)
Sociedad Honoraria de Amistad (Elementary and Middle School)
Story Place Do you ever run out of fun things for your students to read? Here is a website with some cute stories that you can use in your Spanish classroom for added reading practice. They are very elementary but they allow you to put in your student’s names to make the story more interesting.
Reading is Fundamental ¡Leamos en familia! Site in English and Spanish with: songs with sound files, lyrics and karaoke style animation; recipes, and fun printable sheets.
El Tesoro de Arcoiris (A collection of 20 stories for children and more added monthly)
Fábulas de Esopo (320 of Aesop’s Fables in spanish)
Prensa Escrita (hundreds of Spanish newspapers, by country)
Spanish Pictorial Recipes (10 recipes)
September 17, 2008 (1:00 am) Following are the 4 Recipes by Mario Batali. They are Word documents.
Below is the schedule for the PBS Channel 13 series Spain…on the Road Again (Word document) PBS Scehdule
Free Día de los muertos e-cards
N-Z
N-Z
Caperucita Roja
Interactive Story
Caperucita Roja
Interactive Story
Caperucita Roja
Interactive Story
November 21, 2008
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Site
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Site
Some Spanish Thanksgiving Vocabulary
About.com
Don’t let the “title” fool you. Visit the site you might get some ideas for your Spanish students!
Enchanted Learning
123Greeting
Es el Día de Acción de Gracias… el momento perfecto de celebrar y extender la mano a sus seres queridos. Envíe una de las hermosas etarjetas del Día de Acción de Gracias para hacer memorable esta ocasión alegre para sus amigos/conocidos y familia. Envíe sus deseos por felicidad y prosperidad en abundancia y deséeles un Día de Acción de Gracias maravilloso con estas etarjetas cordiales.
Send Free Online Greeting Cards to your friends & loved ones. ALL cards are absolutely FREE !!!
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