How I turned a classroom routine into meaningful language practice. Partner work is one of those classroom routines that sounds simple—until you say, “Find a partner,” and suddenly everyone is looking across the room for the same person. Want to Try It in Your Classroom? Start with the cognate set designed for novice Spanish students—an... Continue Reading →
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Is Your Spanish Class Expectations Handout Trying to Do Too Much?
🎁 Looking for the free templates? They're included in this post! Back-to-school season in middle school Spanish is exciting, busy, and just a little chaotic. New students. New schedules. New routines. New names to learn. New Chromebooks that may or may not be charged. The classics. For years, I handed out one Spanish class expectations... Continue Reading →
End of the Year Review in Middle School Spanish
Spanish 1 Review Stations for Middle School Part 1 At this point in the school year, my middle school students are DONE. 😅 The closer we get to summer break, the more I find my middle school students need even MORE opportunities to move, talk, interact, and work collaboratively in order to stay engaged during... Continue Reading →
Middle School Señora Is Refreshing and Expanding Resources for Today’s Spanish Classroom
New & Refreshed Spanish Resources for the Middle School Classroom Middle School Señora is currently refreshing, redesigning, and expanding resources created for the middle school Spanish classroom over the last several years. Many of these activities have been classroom-tested, refined, and used with real novice learners over time. As classrooms continue to evolve, these resources... Continue Reading →
Fin de año – Ideas, thoughts and resources from my Middle School Spanish Classroom
"Se acabo lo que se daba" the phrase that comes to my mind when ending this school year! My sweet Mom had many "dichos Cubanos" and now that she is no longer physically with me, it seems that I hear those sayings more and more in my head! Nothing defines this year more than this... Continue Reading →
Ideas, resources and thoughts on Realidades 1 Capítulos 2B y 5B
I needed Spring break so much! I didn't realize how tired I was (how exhausted we must all be!). Hard to believe we have all been figuring out our curriculums, teaching remote, teaching in class or a combination of both for over a year! On a positive note, now that Spring break is over, my... Continue Reading →
Digital Readers to complement Realidades Units, movies and spring break
Mi gente, it's been a week (well more like two)! but I'm looking at spring break next week and I can't wait. Seems like the students are feeling it too because they are just as ansy as I am! In my last post, both 7th and 8th graders were starting to read Flangoo Digital Readers after wrapping... Continue Reading →
Quinceañeras, un fin de semana fantástico y verbos -ar
I am wrapping up the La Familia unit with my 8th graders this week. We have had such a great time talking about our families! We talked about family relationships, practiced the grammar structures of tener and adjetivos posesivos, we all talked about how our pets are part of our family too with the mini... Continue Reading →
Ideas, thoughts and resources for the School Unit Part 2
7th graders have recently begun talking about their school day and as mentioned in the previous post, it is a topic that they really enjoy as they are new to the middle school wing of our school and are new to having multiple teachers. We've been using vocabulary to talk about the school day, subjects,... Continue Reading →
“Tu día en la escuela”, resources, ideas and thoughts for the school unit
I work in a K-8 school where Middle school is in the same building. Our middle schoolers, 7th and 8th graders have their own wing and follow a 9 period day. 7th graders are always excited about the topic of talking about school. It’s the first time they have multiple teachers and have to switch... Continue Reading →
¿Cómo eres? Adjetivos descriptivos, artículos definidos/indefinidos e ideas/ recursos para el día de San Valentin
¿Cómo eres? Adjetivos descriptivos... Are you into bulletin boards? I used to not be. I would come in at the beginning of the school year decorate my class along with the one bulletin board in my classroom. That would be it, the same bulletin board up the entire year. It didn't really bother me, I... Continue Reading →
Marco y su Mascota – A Digital Reader to complement Realidades B Capitulo 5A La Familia
It's difficult sometimes to find a reader that fits perfectly with the theme of the unit that you are required to teach as part of the curriculum established by your school district. I've tried many, but I am so happy that I tried and ultimately got a subscription to Flangoo by Teacher's Discovery. (Disclaimer: I am not... Continue Reading →