Interactive Word Walls

Hey y'all!!!

We wanted to share with you what to us is one of the key elements to a successful dual language classroom: yes, we are talking about interactive word walls. Year after year, we see our learner's exceed our expectations when it comes to building meaningful sentences and even stories using our interactive word wall.  

Our students use word walls to sort words by initial or ending sounds, by parts of speech, to classify nouns, to divide words in syllables, to complete sentence stems, to form plurals, and to write short stories, riddles, and poems! The possibilities are endless!!!

Our word walls started simple, just with words written on index cards on white magnetic boards and lockers.  

As we have seen the engagement that takes place when the students interact with the word wall, we have continued to add words, verbs, conjunctions, prepositions, adjectives, etc.  We want to give the students as much tools to build meaningful sentences and have fun with the language at the same time.

As we stated earlier,  we started with very simple word walls, however if you want to save yourself some of the work, here is a product we created that we think you may find very useful!
In this product have we put together all the elements we have been using so far. It is ready to use! It will be 50% off in our tpt store until the end of July.

Here is a freebie that your students can use as they interact with your word walls!

Spanish Attention Grabber y Otras Cosas

¡Hola a Todos!

This year I have been using a Spanish attention grabber with my students that has really worked!

Click on the limonada below to see how it works and also download 20+ pages of Spanish posters and such that I created for my own classroom this year.

Tabitha Carro

A la escuela - Printable Easy Reading Book in Spanish

My five year old is learning how to read, so I started creating little printable books for him and others his age. They can read them over and over, and color in all of the pictures too. Grab a FREE copy from our Teachers Pay Teachers store to use with your students.

New bilingual items!

It's almost back to school time and we must get ready. This Summer I have been working on some new clip art, back to school activities and lots of new Fold and Learn Science printables. Everything is done in English and Spanish! Check out for a freebie too!

I am having a big sale as many other sellers in Teachers Pay Teachers. Use the promo code: BTS12

Enjoy your last days of holidays and don't lose this great opportunity on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Lita

Learning in Spain

Spanish Vocabulary Cube Freebie

My students had a lot of fun playing with Spanish vocabulary cubes at the end of the year. You can see how this activity works and download your own free Spanish cube at Krista's Second Grade Super Kids blog! (Click image.)

Tabitha Carro, FlapJack Educational Resources



Mother's day in the classroom

How do you deal with all those family festivities? 

My kids love creating cards. 

Nowadays each family is different and not all my students want to make a mother's day card. So I decided leaving some cards on the writing center with examples.

I made them in English, Spanish and I even left some without text because some of my kids are going to make them for grannies or aunts.

Visit my blog or my TPT sore to get these cards.

Earth-Friendly Bilingual Chore Charts and Note Cards

In honor of tonight's Earth Hour, as well as the upcoming Earth Day in April, here are just a couple of designs I've put together for my kids. The chore charts (can be printed in English or Spanish) list activities kids can do at home to help take care of the Earth. A blank space is left at the bottom of each in case they'd like to write in their own activity.

Enjoy!

Multiplicando Freebie for you!

Hello everyone,
Lori here from Fun To Teach!

Here is a great freebie to practice multiplying with your Spanish speaking students.

Multiplicando Por 0 y 1 - Spanish Multiplication Math Games and Lesson Plans

Stop over at our TPT store for this free individual Spanish package which focuses on Multiplicando Por 0 y 1. Teaching elementary students to multiply is quick and effective when students practice their multiplication facts with these fun and engaging reproducible multiplication games, lesson plans and activities.

These games are effective ways to reach and teach your Spanish learners and at risk students. Differentiate your elementary instruction with this great 26-page multiplication game and activities.

Each multiplication game includes 

• game boards, 
• cards
• practice sheets
• a 5 minute-timed test and graph in Spanish for efficient assessment

Each game package has 5 different activities that students can play to practice and reinforce multiplication. Also included are 5 black lines, which can be used to differentiate your instruction, as seat work or sent home as homework. Flash cards also come in this packet. Reproducible black lines included in this package:
-A variety of games
-Complete game boards and game cards
-Activity black line masters
-Assessment
-Activities to send home
-Easy to use teacher's guides
-Easy game assembly

Happy Teaching!
Lori 
http://esleld.blogspot.com/