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Win Prizes in Our March Music Madness Raffle!
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 05/02/2025
Our March Music Madness is just under a month away and we’ve got some surprises in store. The first is the unveiling of our Teacher Bracket Prediction Challenge. Teachers can fill out a google form with their picks to try and end up with a “perfect bracket”. The teacher(s) with the most points will be winning some high-desired prizes.
We are also running a Raffle to promote MMM25, with a plethora of dream prizes. The first entry? Submit the prediction bracket mentioned above! You could win a class set of novels from Spanish Cuentos, the entire Huellas curriculum from Somewhere to Share, plus subscriptions from Flangoo, Voces, Pixton Comics, Lyric Fluent, and more!
You can find all the ways to enter on our...
Get Ready for March Music Madness ’25: Participate in the Bracket Tournament!
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 07/01/2025
With a toddler and newborn, I haven’t posted as much as I would like the past year. But if there’s one thing that gets me foregoing sleep so I can work on creating… it’s the annual March Music Madness. We are happy to announce that our playlist has been shared and we are gearing up for our 12th bracket tournament.
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 26/02/2024
We are less than a week away from March Music Madness 2024. Plenty of time to get in on what will sure to be the highlight of the year for your students. We recently sat down with Claudio Elliot on her podcast Growing with Proficiency to discuss the Music Tournament. One of the key talking points is how we can use music as a way to discuss in the target language, without having to study the lyrics.
Our resource drive is growing and the one thing you won’t want to miss is the Round 1 Matchup Slideshow which has all the links...
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Publicado en SpanishPlans el 10/02/2024
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The 11th annual March Music Madness tournament is approaching and teachers are gearing up. Our MMM24 homepage has what you need. Don’t miss what students consistently call their favorite part of the year. Our 2024 bracket features 16 current songs (all from...
Leer másPublicado en SpanishPlans el 14/12/2023
Next week I’ll be using the Spanish Lottery video of Justino with materials from the Comprehensible Classroom. In order to preview the story I used a Mad Libs activity, generated by ChatGPT which I fined-tuned. Students worked with a partner: they first wrote the words on a list. Then they asked their partner for their words to fill in the text. They then read the completed text to their partner.
Here’s a free copy of the activity.
You can also do it together as a class by taking suggestions from the class and then writing in their answers...
Leer másPublicado en SpanishPlans el 06/10/2023
After different variations over the years, [FVR (Free Voluntary Reading], Lectura Libre, SSR (Silent Spanish Reading) among others] I’ve again renamed our reading time in class to ISR: Independent Spanish Reading.
To kick things off this year, we read for several days in a row to give students a chance to finish a book. We had already read 1 book together as a class to start the year (Capibara con Botas) so I started off ISR with the easiest of books that I had in my collection. When students were finished reading they submitted their name with the book they read and I created posters to hang in the hall with the book cover and the names of the students who read them:
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Leer másPublicado en SpanishPlans el 29/09/2023
After presenting a MovieTalk/Clip chat, what’s your next step? If you use screenshots to present a video (which is usually my preferred way), then you are already halfway there. Organize the important screenshots on a slide and leave room for students to write underneath the picture. I’ve done this before to have students work with partners to re-tell the story, but another option is to have them write the description of the scene or the phrase as part of a note-taking activity. This allows the students to physically write out the main phrases and vocabulary you are targeting.... Leer más
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 14/09/2023
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Some ideas to keep in mind this month:
- We recently combined several of our products into a Hispanic Heritage Bundle… including our...
Publicado en SpanishPlans el 13/08/2023
It’s that time of year again…. summer break is coming to an end for me and I’ll be back in the classroom for year 17 soon. Here’s a few things we’ve been up to over the summer to help make YOUR transition back to the classroom an easier one.
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Leer másPublicado en SpanishPlans el 15/03/2023
If 16 songs and 3 weeks were too much, then maybe the Final 8 songs and a week and a half tournament is just for you. And if the timing is right, it might be a perfect way to cruise into Spring Break.
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