2nd 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
  • No comprendo
  • ¿Me ayudas?
  • Feliz Navidad

SECOND GRADE- Students begin the year with a town simulation. Here, second graders sign up to work at various businesses and pretend to live in a Spanish-speaking country. They are introduced to currency conversions, authentic brand names, and conversational vocabulary, and work to apply their Spanish knowledge in meaningful contexts. As the year progresses, we layer on creative class stories that morph into amazingly ridiculous but hilarious sagas in the target language (cue Bob the Beetle).

Year 2024-25

Songs

Year 2023-24

Songs

Skills

SPANISH WORDLE LINK

5-Letter Words WORDLE ideas: queso (cheese), dónde (where), puedo (Can I?), jugar (to play), nunca (never), lápiz (pencil), cinco (five), vamos (let’s go), marte (Mars), guapo/ guapa (handsome; pretty), pluma (pen; feather).

Year 2022-23

Culture Projects

Songs

Cartoons

  • For a playlist of Scholastic read-alouds in Spanish, click HERE;
  • For fairy tales in Spanish, click HERE.

Story

El lunes (on Monday), un lobo corre a McDonald’s. El lobo dice, “Tengo hambre, mucha hambre.” LOBO: “Quiero un BigMac.” “Dinero, por favor.” “Aquí está (here it is!).” Pato malo corre a McDonald’s, TOMA el BigMac y se lo come (and eats it). El lobo llora. Llora mucho. La clase dice, “Canta y no llores”. 

El jueves (on Thursday), el lobo dice, “Tengo hambre” y corre a Pizza Hut. LOBO: “Quiero una pizza.” “Dinero, por favor.” “Aquí está (here it is!).” Pato malo corre a Pizza Hut, TOMA la pizza y se la come (and eats it). El lobo llora. Llora por tres horas. La clase dice, “Canta y no llores”.

El viernes (on Friday), el lobo tiene una idea (“E-day-ah”). Corre a Subway. En Subway, el lobo dice, “Un sándwich, por favor.” “Dinero, por favor.” “Aquí está (here it is!).” Luego (then), el lobo pone un zapato (“POE-nay”/puts a shoe) en el sándwich. Pato malo toma el sándwich y se lo come (and eats it). Esta vez (this time), el lobo no llora. ¡El lobo ríe! “¡Jajaja! ¡Qué risa!”

TPRS Story, modified for my students

Year 2021-22

Culture Projects

Songs

Cartoons

Year 2020-21

Culture Projects

Songs

2019-20

Culture Projects

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

Curriculum- Second Grade

Students in second grade experience immersion in the target language. Integral to the second grade curriculum is a town simulation that ties these units together. Here, students pretend to live in a Spanish-speaking country; work at businesses of their own creation (bank, restaurant, etc.); and discuss the value of different currencies. During the second semester, the focus shifts to AIM Language Learning, a methodology which incorporates storytelling, drama, dance, songs, gestures, and repetition to accelerate the language-learning process.

Sprinkled throughout the year are various Culture Projects; these lessons focus on amazing and beautiful aspects of the Spanish-speaking world, and knit together the Lower School Spanish experience. Last but not least, second graders learn the names and locations of all of the 21 Spanish-speaking countries on a gigantic floor map. They have the opportunity to participate in an All-School Map Competition at the end of the year.