1st Grade

Playlist

Year 25-26

Passwords

  • La contraseña
  • Dime la contraseña
  • No me acuerdo
  • El plátano
  • ¿Qué dices?
  • La contraseña es la manzana
  • …o no puedes entrar
  • Dime la contraseña o no puedes entrar
  • ¿En serio?
  • Abre la puerta
  • Nunca
  • Con permiso
  • Por supuesto
  • El pavo
  • No comprendo
  • ¿Me ayudas?
  • Feliz Navidad

FIRST GRADE- Students begin the year learning about a 500-mile hike across Spain that their teacher completed several years ago. This involves lessons like walking around campus with backpacks and water bottles, stopping for picnics with delicious fake food, and ‘hiking up mountains’ (i.e., staircases). Gradually, we shift to indoor ‘center work’ lessons where first graders sign up for activities of their choice in the target language (student interest-based), and work to apply their Spanish knowledge in meaningful contexts.

Year 2024-25

Songs

Media

Year 2023-24

Songs

Skills

Year 2022-23

Culture Projects

Songs

Cartoons

Year 2021-22

Culture Projects

Songs

Cartoons

2020-21

Culture Projects

Songs

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

Curriculum- First Grade

Students in first grade experience immersion in the target language. Here, first graders read a letter together with the class, which explains which “islands”, or activity centers, will be open that day. Students submit written requests each class, expressing which ‘islands’ they want to visit and what they will need while there. After arriving at an island, first graders participate in an activity center and conversations in the target language between teacher> student, student>student, and student>teacher commence–the heartbeat of the curriculum.

Sprinkled throughout the year are various Culture Projects; these lessons focus on amazing and beautiful aspects of the Spanish-speaking world (landforms, monuments, traditions, etc.), and knit together the Lower School Spanish experience. Last but not least, first graders focus on learning the names and locations of the Spanish-speaking countries in South America on a gigantic floor map.