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All Blog Posts Tagged 'spanish' (20)

Los egipcios

I've just written a very long post on my website about making links between Spanish learning and the Egyptians, a popular theme/topic in primary schools.

I won't copy it all here - click the image on the left to take you there and feel free to leave comments!

However, below is an extract!

Ideas from other…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on April 6, 2013 at 11:18 — 2 Comments

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Inspired by the life of Neil Armstrong, this blog is a quick reminder of all the free KS2 resources out there that link Space and Languages. You can download…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on August 28, 2012 at 11:00 — No Comments

Since my change of role in September, I have a lot more spare time, and have been filling some of it in the last couple of weeks making up some songs to help my KS2s with their phonics in Spanish. So far I've done one for the "j" sound and one for the "th" sound. You can download them and accompanying resources here (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

Added by Clare Seccombe on November 18, 2011 at 12:45 — 1 Comment

Primary French German Spanish flashcards - free!

Just had a tip-off from Early Start that they are offering some free sample flashcards to support the launch of MLG Publishing 'Ici on parle francais'.

The MLG scheme is aimed at supporting non-specialist primary teachers and is available in French, German and Spanish, as are the free flashcards and sample chapters. Click here http://www.earlystart.co.uk/mlg.htm to read more and download…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 6, 2010 at 11:18 — 2 Comments

La araña pequeñita

Here's a Voki I made yesterday in my session at the Primary Language Show, using a song I'd recorded for a non-Spanish speaker to use with her class.

Sadly no spider avatar on Voki, but I did manage some rain.....…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on March 14, 2010 at 22:13 — 1 Comment

Primary Languages Show 2010 - blog post

I had a fantastic time at the Primary Languages Show on Friday 12th March, and have blogged it for anyone who couldn't be there or who did different workshops.

Read about it here

Added by Clare Seccombe on March 14, 2010 at 13:51 — No Comments

Primera Escuela

My love of trees is becoming very well known now - I now get sent all sorts of tree related links.

Clare Seccombe aka @vallesco sent me one such message this afternoon -

I'm glad s

he did as it reminded me of this wonderful website - Prim era… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on February 18, 2010 at 15:00 — 2 Comments

Canciones de Navidad Wallwisher

In an idle moment this afternoon, I made a Wallwisher of Christmas songs in Spanish (and a few in Catalan as I couldn't resist!)

Feel free to add your own!

For some unknown reason, the wall won't embed so here's the link! http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/navidades

Added by Lisa Stevens on December 24, 2009 at 15:00 — No Comments

BBC Primary French and Spanish website - Have your say!

I'm helping the producers of the BBC schools website a bit this week, giving them some suggestions about their Primary French and Spanish pages.

If you haven't seen them, there are animated characters to help you speak the language, games to practice the vocabulary in each section, and some interesting fact files about the…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on December 14, 2009 at 14:17 — 4 Comments

Spanish online courses for teachers

Received an exciting email from the Consejería de Educación today about courses for teachers of Spanish.… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on November 11, 2009 at 22:27 — No Comments

Ideas for Christmas

It's December, and Jo has decorated the page, so guess we'd better acknowledge that Christmas is coming! So, in case you don't find it all by yourself, I thought I'd point you towards a post on my blog entitled Resources for Christmas. I could just copy it all here but I don't like to do that too often as it seems like cheating to me. So if you're interested, all you have to do is… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on December 1, 2008 at 17:14 — No Comments

La canción de las brujas

This is to go with Jo's brilliant post on La sorciere de minuit - but in Spanish!

Here's a Spanish song about witches -

And if that one's a bit complicated / it scary for you, here's a lovely short one about a mad witch.…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 31, 2008 at 15:30 — 1 Comment

¡Pocoyó!

Although my boys are getting older, we still love Pocoyo. And so do many of the kids at school. They're really interested when I tell them that Pocoyo is Spanish for little me and worked out for themselves that Pato might mean duck in Spanish.

So when we went to Spain and saw Pocoyo in Spanish on TVE it made perfect sense ( we watched JimJam and Sunny too - that was a bit more odd!)

And when i found videos on Youtube, I was very pleased, and thought I'd share a… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on August 27, 2008 at 22:11 — 12 Comments

Juanito y las Judías Mágicas

Hiya All

Would you believe that I started uploading this yesterday afternoon- was losing the will! Have split the powerpoint into four parts to make it quicker to upload but.....hope it doesn't take as long to download! Would have given up but it became a matter of principle!!! Have sent my kids to playscheme so I can do some work- much to their disgust. Have done a powerpoint of Juanito to use in September -images scanned from a book and text mainly from qca. Have blogged it… Continue

Added by Helen on July 30, 2008 at 7:30 — 2 Comments

Take Ten En Español

Yesterday I was lucky enough to catch up with Tracy Adams, a Devon Primary Languages Consultant who is currently working with Chris Wakely on 'Take Ten En Español'. This handy pocket-sized resource with accompanying DVD and Karaoke CD will be out later in the Autumn term - and not a moment too soon for those of us who have already come across… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on July 18, 2008 at 23:48 — 4 Comments

Theatre in Spanish for primary children

Thought I would bring this to the attention of folks who do Spanish, especially as you seem to lose out to French in terms of resources and so on. A Cuerpo is a theatre company offering performances, workshops and resources for KS2 Spanish. They are based in the Leicester but could travel further afield.

Added by Clare Seccombe on June 23, 2008 at 20:06 — 3 Comments

La Vaca Lola

Just found the cutest video on Youtube for Spanish.

I've just blogged about it on my blog but thought it was too good to not share with you (in case you don't read ¡Vámonos!)

So here it is -

I've copied my blog post beneath - don't make a habit of it, but really do have to get on with my planning!

The words are -…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on February 5, 2008 at 21:22 — 7 Comments

Navidad, Navidad.

At this time of year, all is completely haywire at school and it's really hard to get anything completed when you're only in (officially) two days a week! So I am particularly proud of managing to submit the December task for Voices of the World

This may have something to do with the fact that the tasks are all intended to be fairly easy and stress free, and also to the enthusiasm of the kids. After having the majority of Key… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on December 13, 2007 at 21:25 — 1 Comment

¡Estoy dando saltos!

I wanted to quickly share something with you all as I'm SO excited and chuffed, and also I hope it will encourage you.

As some of you may know, I am PLL (and eTwinning) coordinator at a primary school where I work two days a week, teaching Spanish in PPA time.

From this year, the whole of the school will be learning Spanish - from Nursery to Year 6.

Up until the end of last year I taught all the Key Stage 1 and 2 Spanish, but this year I'm only… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on September 17, 2007 at 20:30 — 1 Comment

EDL and Rugby!

What a mixture, eh! But they are related - in my mind anyway!

Just over a week left before we're back to school and my mind is seriously turning to what to do on my alloted display boards. Don't know how I managed it, but I've got three - to everyone else's two per year group - guess it has something to do with my ability to fill them! Anyway, I love displays and in my previous school I even got a point for being 'display… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on August 22, 2007 at 18:46 — 5 Comments