Geografía / Geography

This is a great site to practice the learn about Central and South American countries. 　
　
　
　

Dia de los muertos

We discuss Dia de los muertos and I show them examples of Sugar skulls and decorate calaveras.

Here you can find the calaveras worksheet:

For lower grades:

Female version: Check out the girl version of this calaca, click here.

Male version: For a male version of this calaca, you can click here.

For higher grades:

 For 4th and 5th, we are using this site that has a good T chart explaining the differences between Dia de los Muertos and Halloween. Then, using the chart, students complete a Venn diagram comparing the two holidays.

Google drive

Google drive: Google Drive is a free service that lets you store all your files including documents, photos, videos and Google Docs online and access them anywhere.

TinyURL

TinyURL: Free URL redirection service. Turns a long URL into a much shorter one.

Live binders

Live binders : Organize your resources in an online binder.

Socrative

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablet

ClassTools.net

ClassTools.net: Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Cuentacuentos digitales / Digital storytelling

1. Goanimate:  It´s an amazing animated video maker

2. Animoto: It´s a video slideshow maker with Music

3. Jing: Screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith

4. Audacity: Free Audio editor and recorder

5. Vocaroo: Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.

6. Comix:  Comix is an educational comic strip creator

Zondle

Zondle is a great tool to create your own games.

Flipboard

Flipboard

A amazing tool to make your own magazines. 

Fotopedia

Fotopedia encyclopedia: images, pictures, photos, photographs for humanity.

Quizlet

We make simple learning tools that let you study anything, for free.

Colores / Colors
1. Colores

Los días de la semana / Days of the week
2. Los días de la semana 

Los días de la semana y los meses del año / Days of the week and months of the year

3. Los días de la semana y los meses del año / Days of the week and months of the year

4. Los meses del año

Números / Numbers

5. Los números del 0 al 10 

6. Los números del 0- 30 

7. Los números del 0 a 101

Famosos españoles y latinos en América / Famous Spanish/Hispanic American

 
 


Last week, my students used this site to research a Famous Hispanic American.  5^th graders worked independently and 4^th graders worked with a partner.  Students or pairs will record why the person is important and their place of origin.

This is a great idea Cristina! Thanks for sharing with us!

Alternative to YouTube

This is alternative site to use if you want to watch educational videos

Una página web interesante / Cool site

Spanish teachers site: This site has great ideas and it has a little bit of everything.   

Cuadernos de español / Spanish notebooks

Hola,

My students are working on their cuardernos de español. I showed both sites to the students and they choose one. Then, we go to the computer lab and they make a page to decorate their cuadernos de espanol. The final work has their names, my name. Also they are given with a list of adjectives in Spanish for them to use to describe themselves.

1. Wordle

2. Tagxedo

Cristóbal Colón / Christopher Columbus sites

1. This is a UK site it has information about Colon. You can tell the story then go to the bottom right an click on games, and gives you a short version of while playing. Check it out.

2. Another site, this one has questions to answer in a game form like hang man. GREAT for 5th and 4th grades.

Los animales de la granja / Farm animals

In this unit, we are going to learn about farm animals.

Resources:

1. Quizlet activity: