Spanish immersion at HOME
Educational ResourcesLearning a second language is not an easy task, however kids are little sponges that absorb fast what is given to them through play. To help your kids with their Spanish language acquisition, immersion is very important, not only at school but also at home. Here you will find some resources to help your child practice the Spanish language at home, as well as some essential preschool skills.
Remember theses aren’t “homework”, these are playing activities they can enjoy together with you, siblings and other family members. Please start your activities by telling them: “We are going to play….” “Vamos a jugar….”
PRINTABLE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR HOME
We’ve created a series of resources you can print at home or at a printing shop to play and learn at home. These resources have been created for our partner Amigo Bilingue and are listed in their Etsy shop.
Click on any of the products and you will be redirected to their Etsy page. All resources are inmediate downloads so that you can print at home and enjoy right away!
Free Printable Resources from Michuchutren
- Ficha (Card) Partes del cuerpo – Body parts
- Ficha (card) Partes de la cabeza- Head parts
- Ficha (card)Los huesos-michuchutren (the bones)
- Ficha (Card) Los organos-michuchutren (The internal organs)
- The AmigoBilingue-Ocean pack (Ocean animals – Animales del mar activity pack).
PLANTING A SEED GUIDE
La Hora del cuento
Libro: El monstruo de colores
Libro: Mi sombra y yo
¿Puedo contarte un secreto?
Libro: oso polar, oso polar
Libro: Oso en casa
Actividades en casa
Como Crece una planta?
How does a plant grow?
Exploration and observation are great sources for learning. This hands on project will help children learn how a plant grows, starting from a little seed until becoming a plant.
Download the Planting a seed guide for instructions, vocabulary and observation sheet.
Titeres en casa. Puppets at home
Inspire children to be creative and use their imagination. Here we share our video of how to make a puppet at home with a sock. In addition to being a great creative activity, children can then use the puppets to create stories using their imaginations. Excellent way to develop language, increase vocabulary and have a good time at home.
Juego ¿Quien soy yo? – Who Am I game
This game develops the ability to ask questions and relate concepts, helps the development of new vocabulary and promotes team play. It can also work as a Matching game, very good for memory skills and critical thinking. Great for second language learning, young children and family fun time.
Language and culture
The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted. When you interact with a language it means that you are interacting with the culture as well. Learning a second language has many benefits. One of the most important: Communication. Therefore learning a language is not just learning the alphabet, numbers or meaning of words, but is also about understandind ghe culture where it comes from.
We invite you to learn more about Hispanic Latin American cultures through our partner Amigo Bilingue.
Mi biblioteca - My library
These are a selection of books ou can buy and have at home and practice the language. They have great illustrations to make learning and understanding easy. Some come in a bilingual version (English and Spanish) so that the whole family can read the book while you encourage your child to repeat basic words in Spanish. For advanced Spanish speakers, read to them the story and encourage them to tell you the story again using their own words. By clicking on the image you will be redirected to the Amazon page where you can order it (For USA)
Mi musica en Español - Music in Spanish
By clicking on the image you will be redirected to the Amazon page where you can buy a digital copy of our Original music CD. Lyrics can be found here
Author: michuchutren
We cannot start with anything different that our own original first CD. Created specially to encourage children to learn and practice Spanish and move to different rhythms, the CD includes themes such as numbers, animals, greetings, emotions between others.
We’ve created a station wit our songs, together with a selection of other Spanish songs for children. As you all know, once you create the station, Pandora will play music similar to the songs you have previously selected or given a thumbs up. You can add the station to your Pandora account and help us build a “only spanish” station for our kids.
Author: Miss Rosi
This CD created by a Peruvian singer comes with 12 songs including two of the songs we love to keep children active: Con mis amiguitos and Todos a Bailar.
Author: Andres
Latin Grammy-nominated album, featuring 22 songs in Spanish and English.
Single song
Author: CantaJuegosChildren love moving at the rythm of this song. Great to teach about bunnies but especially to encourage movement. Easy vocabulary.
Wipe Clean Bilingual woorkbook
This wipe-clean bilingual workbook is packed with first learning activities to complete and repeat especially designed for preschool children.
Tracing and problem-solving activities are presented in both English and Spanish to encourage your child to practice and hone both their early-learning and language skills.