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Looking at Clothing
Learners identify various articles of clothing in Spanish. They answer discussion questions about clothing and buying clothes, examine and repeat the names of clothing in Spanish, match pictures with vocabulary words, and play a...
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How Do You Say Hello?
Learners access an online resource to study how to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic. They complete a worksheet telling how to say hello in these three languages before practicing the proper pronunciation of each.
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What's That Sign?
Students watch an episode of a PBS show called Maya and Miguel that focuses on communication with American Sign Language. They play a game in which they identify a number of the ASL signs.
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La comida
Students practice new vocabulary associated with basic food items. Using directions, they combine food items. They listen to a native Spanish speaker using the Qsteps program. Using the program, they interact with it by answering...
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The Cat Came Back
Students are read the story "The Cat Came Back". Using Spanish, they communicate the context of the story with each other. They practice using new vocabulary, identifying main characters and putting the events into order. They use the...
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Spanish Body Parts
Students practice the Spanish vocabulary for greetings, classroom commands and body parts. They demonstrate the use of Spanish vocabulary to identify colors.
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Spanish Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Students sing the song Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes using the spanish words for the parts of the body. They practice saying the words before singing the song and try going faster each time the sing the song.
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Spanish Days of the Week/Counting
Students practice using the Spanish words for the days of the week and numbers. They use a calendar to help them with the activity. They also demonstrate their ability to say "tomorrow will be" and "yesterday was".
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Experiencing Language With Friends
Learners watch a "Maya and Miguel" video that presents the concepts of meeting new friends, introductions and students that speak different languages. They discuss language learning, review several Spanish phrases and role-play...
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Morning Activity
First graders show appropriate ASL hand signs to answer questions for the morning meeting. They show the day of the week, the weather, and mode of transportation to school using signs. They copy the sign of the day and use name cards to...
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Los Deportes (The Sports)
First graders, in groups, after learning the Spanish words for sports, make vocabulary cards to test each other.
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Coping with Verbs
First graders in a foreign language class explore how verbs function in sentences.
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El Joki Poki (The Hokey Pokey)
First graders sing and dance the Hokey Pokey bilingually. They read and sing the Spanish words for prepositions and act them out as they sing and act out the motions to the song, "El Joki Poki" (The Hokey Pokey).
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La Ensalada (The Salad)
First graders watch a salad being prepared while listening to the Spanish names of the vegetables. They write down Spanish names for vegetables and make their own salads and present them to the class using Spanish words to describe the...
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Describing Family - Lesson Plan
Students describe their family in their new language French. They use adjectives, and proper gender. Then they describe how the family is alike and different.
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Say "Thank You" in 100 Languages!
Students put the "Thanks" back in Thanksgiving with this geography and language activity that teaches students to say "thank you" in many languages.
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Spanish Body Parts
Students learn Spanish vocabulary with visuals and hands-on activities.
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Spanish Word Face Mobile
Students learn Spanish words. In this language lesson, students cut out parts of the face and head, and write the English word on one side and the Spanish word on the other side. Students use these cut outs to create a mobile. Students...
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At the Dinner Table: A Foreign Language Lesson
Pupils name dinner-table utensils in the foreign language being taught. For this foreign language vocabulary lesson, students create a restaurant table setting with labels to learn vocabulary of the table in the language they are studying.
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Printing the Letter Xx
In this letter practice instructional activity, learners print the uppercase and lowercase letter Xx by tracing the given examples. Students follow the numbered arrows to learn the stroke patterns and then color the pictures of the X-ray...
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Let's Learn Sight Words
In this Hawaiian language worksheet, students look at the pictures and say the words shown in English first and then in Hawaiian. Students write the Hawaiian words by tracing the letters in each box.