Kindergarten

Playlist

Year 25-26

Passwords

  • Es-pañ-ol, es-pañ-ol
  • Yo hablo español
  • Yo hablo inglés
  • El plátano
  • La manzana
  • Yo hablo español y yo hablo inglés
  • ¿En serio?
  • Yo como manzanas y plátanos y pollo
  • Pollo-banana
  • Yo camino a mi color
  • Yo tengo ___ años (Zapatito blanco, zapatito azul)

KINDERGARTEN- Students learn the name of and “travel to” a new Spanish-speaking country every few classes on our Floor Map, and do a project based on said country (we start in South America). The year tends to begin with science projects, as they are highly visual and, as a result, make Spanish more comprehensible to beginners. Our stuffed animal hero-friend Pato (duck) comes to visit when my vocal cords can handle it—anyone out there have any tips for ventriloquism not leading to laryngitis?

Year 2024-25

Songs

Year 2023-24

Songs

Skills

Year 2022-23

Culture Projects

Songs

Cartoons

Year 2021-22

Culture Projects

Songs

Cartoons

Year 2020-21

Culture Projects

Songs

Cartoons

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

Curriculum- Kindergarten

Students in kindergarten experience immersion in the target language. Highlights include lessons on disappearing ink, vinegar volcanoes, dyed paper, lightning bugs, a real egg whose fate is to be smashed, maps and treasure hunting, and ocean animals. Students also practice writing Spanish sight words at their own differentiated pace, dependent on L1 skills, and are exposed to literacy/the written word on a regular basis.

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. Kindergarteners begin to recognize the names and flags of many Spanish-speaking countries through these projects.