Spanish books

If I wasn't a teacher I would...

Who am I kidding? I have always liked teaching, even when I was on my way to go to med school! I always led our study groups ;D

However, during this time at home, I have envied my friends with office jobs who now get to sit at home with lots of FREE time. All their posts of books, and book clubs and books and more books! How I wish I had time to read more BOOKS!   Ok. Pitty party is O V E R!

My children have been having a BLAST reading SO MANY BOOKS! The days leading to our school closure, a couple of my co workers were very kind and let my children raid their classroom libraries so our stash of "new" books is pretty fantastic!

Also, I am thankful that I did not give their kids all their book fair books all at once! They have been able to get these now one at a time!!!

So all these books have been great for my older kids, but my youngest (4yo) constantly needs ME to read to her. If you, like me, just don't have a million free hours to read with your little ones, then this post is for you.

This post is ALSO for you, if you are a teacher who wants to share more stories with your students.


Here are some awesome website with cute Spanish books and stories!

1.The Spanish Experiment:  https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/stories/chicken-little

2. Spanish Mama's simple and cute fable stories! https://spanishmama.com/fables-fabulas/

3. Spanish fairy tales from The fable cottage: https://www.thefablecottage.com/spanish

4. Astronauts reading space themed stories!! https://storytimefromspace.com/astronaut-annie-2/

5. Easy readers from Spanish Playground: https://www.spanishplayground.net/easy-spanish-books-pdf-kids/

6. Scholastic's books and activities. All very engaging and fun https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

7. For my college-aged students: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

8. Read conmigo: Their free sample is cute so I may be singing up for an account to check out more books. https://www.readconmigo.org/library

9. Spanish leveled readers from Reading A-Z: https://www.readconmigo.org/library

10. YouTube finds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfs5ju_X8bFbuTMgAFUjHQ3A0HAFgFu58

11. Maguaré. Stories and trabalenguas! https://maguare.gov.co/leer/


**I am NOT affiliated with any of these companies. I have simply found their materials are well done and helpful for my kids and students**


Have you found other super awesome resources? Share them in the comments!

❤️Andrea

   

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Guided drawings

Guided drawings

My children LOVE  to draw, color and create stories from drawings. During this time, I have found some incredible tutorials to keep us entertained. 

I have also started creating some for my students in order to make sure that we have fun, keep them creative, but also reinforce some of the concepts we had been learning in class these last few months. 

Check them out here on my YouTube channel. If you find them helpful, share the link in your lessons! 

**I am not good at drawing, so my examples are simple and doable by my 4th-8th graders and even my college students! There is no excuse for them not to have fun!**

These are the originals:

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Versus the wonderful submissions from some of my students:

 

   

Since my own kids know all my "party tricks", I did some digging and found some awesome, talented artists that could help us out. Here are some of our family favorite:

- Doodles with Mo Willems: The incredible creator of my Kinder's fave Piggy and Gerald has taught us SO much about the art of drawing. Enjoy his tutorials HERE.  He even taught us to make some cute animations and inspired us to have dinner and doodles

- Spanish playground has a cute panda session HERE. 

- FUN and free printable guided drawings from one of my favorite clip artist on Teachers Pay Teachers: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Check them out HERE.

- Cute Spanish videos on YouTube HERE.  

- The dude from the Underpants books!!!! Check it out HERE. 

Have you found OR created any doodling places that you love? Share them in the comments!

Stay inside everyone and let us get through this together!

❤️Andrea

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