Here is our Spanish version of the letter crafts.

For this project you will need a couple of days. It’s better if you make a letter each day..like a week project!

Pinky liked it a lot! I am thinking about setting up a Spanish binder to keep all our future Spanish learning projects. Will see…

These are the pattern we used (click over each letter to follow the link to the 4shared website where I stored them). I have hand drawn everything and then cut over construction paper. For some we got creative and used felt, cotton and feathers. Sorry, but each vowel part is written in Spanish, just follow the next pictures in order to get an idea.

Letter A is for:

Angel- angel

Abeja- bee

 

Letter E is for:

Edificio- building

Elefante- elephant

 

Letter I is for:

Iguana- Iguana

Isla- island

Letter O is for:

Oso- bear

Oveja- sheep

 

Letter U is for:

Unicornio- unicorn

Urraca- Magpie

I hope you and your kiddoes have fun learning Spanish!

 

On Monday, we are having fun watching and singing our favorite Spanish vowels videos!

This is the way Pinky learns; smiling!

Love that little face!

• Las vocales
  

  Video Educativo de las Vocales from El elegido mano de piedra

 

• With this video you can learn each vowel sound.
  

  Las vocales from Cantando aprendo a hablar

 

• This video shows examples for each vowel
  

  Las vocales nino de papel

 

• La marcha de las vocales. I love this song!
  

  La marcha de las vocales

 

• This song has English captions.
  

  Video Las vocales from OnlinefreeSpanish

 

• This is a special one: With the vowels you can praise Jesus!
  

  Las vocales: Canto Nino

 

Have a fun Monday singing the Spanish vowels!!!

 

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Pinky is getting really good with her Spanish since my super duper idea of just letting her to play all day long with her “we just speak Spanish” little cousins. We spent two weeks last summer in Puerto Rico where she just: played!

5 cute cousins sitting on a couch….there’s comes….

 

No lessons, no frustrations, no mommy interventions……just free time to play with other Spanish speaking kids.

Now that we are back home, she is speaking in English again!!! Arrrggg! Therefore, I am trying to start short lessons with her to keep practicing Spanish while we get to visit our family again.

We are sharing today our first lesson as a follow up of this post about the Spanish Vowels.

Montessori-inspired Spanish alphabet boxes

 

Since Pinky is reading pretty good in English, we are not using her Alphabet boxes anymore. Therefore, I decided to change them into Spanish Alphabet boxes just by changing the objects from their initial sound box in English into the initial sound name in Spanish. Easy!

 

First, we looked around the house and inside our English alphabet boxes for objects that started with each vowels sound. Then we made a pile. 

 

Later we matched the objects with their vowel initial sound.

If you will like to try this activity with your kids, here is a better look of each one of the vowels and their objects.

I bet you can find most of them right now at home!!

 

Letter a is for:

• ambulancia= ambulance
• almohada= pillow
• ave= bird
• abeja= bee
• arbol- tree
• avion- airplane
• aceituna= olive
• arana= spider
• azul= color blue
• auto= car
• alfombra= rug
• anillo= ring
• anaranjado= color orange
• abanico= fan
• arcoiris= rainbow
• amarillo= color yellow
• agua= water
• ardilla= squirrel
• angel= angel
• alce= elk

Letter e is for:

• Elmo= Elmo
• elefante= elephant
• espejo= mirror
• escalera= stairs (vowels)
• elastico= elastic band
• emparedado= sandwich
• estrella= star
• espada= sword
• escoba= broom
• escritorio= desk

 

Letter I is for:

• iman= magnet
• iguana= iguana
• insecto= insect
• indio= indian
• iglu= igloo

 

Letter o is for:

• Olivia= Olivia
• oso= bear
• oveja= sheep
• orca= killer whale
• octagono= octagon
• ojos= eyes
• olla= pot
• ovalo= oval
• ocho= number eight
• orangutan= orangutan
• oreja= ear
• oruga= caterpillar

 

Letter u is for:

• unicornio= unicorn
• uvas= grapes
• uno= number one
• uniciclo= unicycle
• Urraca= magpie (not pictured)

 

Do you have any hands-on-activity to learn a new language?

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We are raising Pinky, trilingual. It is NOT an easy task but we know that will help her in the future. Daddy speak in French, being Haitian, and mommy speaks in Spanish, being Puerto Rican. So far, Pinky loves English…ufff! However, she is doing really well with Spanish; hence, we are learning how to read. I can’t say the same about French, though!

I hope I would have a chance to blog more often about our Spanish adventures and not be so lazy!

First lesson is: Vowels!

We used the sandpaper letters just with the Montessori style!

You can see a Spanish phonetic book or “Cartilla fonetica” that my mother brought from PR. It reminds me when I was learning how to read just a couple of years ago! lol

Letter u is pronounced the same as when you have two o’s like in book or good. She got it right away!

For the rest of the vowels just pronounce them as the short vowels sounds in English. If your kid is learning how to read in English, you  can do as me and take advantage with  the Spanish, too. In English, kids start with CVC words….and those sounds are mostly the same in Spanish, just a few exceptions that you will get on later.

After, reviewing the sandpaper letters (Follow the Montessori sandpaper letters instructions….they are great!) we watched a few songs videos in YouTube. If your kid is still learning the letters, I recommend that you continue doing the Montessori sandpaper letters activity until they master them. After that, continue with videos or others activities. For Pinky, it was something that took a few minutes since she knows the letters in Spanish for quite a time now.

For the videos, search in YouTube the ones that say: Las vocales!!! Maybe you can stick to one until  they catch the song and master it!

Pinky working with  the sandpaper vowels.

Spanish phonetic booklet. They have some activities that we are making up into hand-on-activities or Montessori-related and will try to share later.

My silly girl having fun with Spanish!!!

If you put together 2 “ma”…….you get “mama” (Mother!!!)

 

Are you introducing another language?…..what is functioning so far for your family!!!! Any ideas to share!!!