1 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids Index Preschool, Elementary and Beginners ................................................................................................................ 3 Online Free Spanish Fun Activities .................................................................................................................. 3 Primary Language Spanish ............................................................................................................................... 4 Hello World Spanish......................................................................................................................................... 5 Noah Comprende ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Purpose Games ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Beginners and Intermediate ................................................................................................................................ 6 Quizlet .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Mi Mundo en Palabras ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Intermediate and and Advance ........................................................................................................................... 6 Cuentos Interactivos......................................................................................................................................... 6 Verb of the week ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Study Spanish .................................................................................................................................................. 7 Lyrics Training .................................................................................................................................................. 7 Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 1 2 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids Hi I’m Miriam Ramos Warth. I have taught Spanish for many years. In all this years I’ve heard parents asking: How can my child practice more Spanish at home? How can I help? Etc... The Internet has many free Spanish resources for parents and teachers but to find the right activity, game or song it’s sometimes a bit of a challenge and time consuming. I want to share some websites that I think are age appropriate and with good content to help children to practice Spanish at home. I’m happy to present The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids. I hope this will be a useful tool for you to engage your child/students in learning Spanish Please check the site before you present it to your child/ students. Also all the websites were free at the time I selected them. I can’t guarantee that they will be free at the time you are reading this e-book. Parents and teachers: if you click at the website’s name you will go directly to the website. If you have any questions or comments please contact me at www.elsse.com This e-book is provided free of charge. Have fun!!!! Thanks Miriam Ramos-Warth Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 2 3 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids Preschool, Elementary and Beginners Online Free Spanish Fun Activities this is a great website. It offers a lot of fun activities for children. Spanish Activities Memory game Find all the matching pairs of cards. Pick up a category and a level of difficulty. Dunk-a-Pingu The object of the game is to guess the letters that make up the hidden word. Beenny’s Game Help Beenny to find his way to the hive Her Feelings How are you feeling today? Click on each name on the right and match it to the corresponding picture on the left. Face His Feelings Bugs Numbers Colors Toys Bouncing Gage Spanish Printables Pets Toys Picture Dictionary Puzzle Enjoy with our Free printable word search puzzles and have endless hours of fun, and with our randomly created puzzles you wont play never the same puzzle. Matching Fruits Face Bugs Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 3 4 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids Numbers 1-10 Farm Animals St. Patrick’s Day Spanish Dialogues Your Costume Conversation - Do you have your costume? Introduce Yourself In English we use the word "you" when we speak to another person, but is Spanish there are two words that can be used based in the relationship with the other and in the situation. If you speak to anyone very close to you as a member of your family you use "tú," with the others or in a formal situation you use "usted" to show respect. Where do you live? Conversation - Where do you live? Taxi!! Conversation - Taxi! Taxi! How’s the weather? Conversation - How's the weather? Spanish Music Opposites Yes-No Song Happy Birthday Monkeys If you’re happy Little Chicks Elephant’s song Goodbye Wheels on the bus Primary language Spanish: from BBC. It is a very complete website with variables audio activities Start here: Simplest Spanish phrases Learn more: Learn to talk about your family, wild animals, Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 4 5 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids weather, flags, music holidays etc Meet the Gang characters’ descriptions in Spanish Find out how people celebrate Spanish fiestas and practice talking about them. Find out how people celebrate Christmas in Spain. Primary Spanish site for games, videos and audio for topics including Numbers, Colours, Families and Sounds. Hello World Spanish: This website has a lot of games. You can use the site for free or subscribe for 60 dollars a year and you will have access to more activities Boardgames Activities for young children: Games Conversations Songs Flashcards Worksheets Spanish Pronunciation Noah Comperende: from PBS Videos-Videos Games-Juegos How do you say ? ¿Cómo se dice? Chararcters-Los personajes Purpose Games: PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends! Play games and tournaments to compete against your friends. Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 5 6 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids Beginners and Intermediate Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 5 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online. This is a great site for Spanish 1 and up at middle School At this website you can Study Test yourself Play games Listen the audios in Spanish and English Mi mundo en palabras is an interactive program elementary school programs. Mi mundo en palabras has 10 units. Greetings-¡Hola! Soy Carlos Family- Esta es mi familia My house-Vamos a jugar a mi casa School-En el cole PE Class-La clase de gimnasia My drawings-Mis dibujos The park-En el parque The weekend-Un fin de semana especial The Farm-Excursión a la granja Custum party-Fiesta de disfraces Intermedia to advance Cuentos Interactivos Interactive Stories for Intermediate, Advanced students, Immersion or Bilinguals students. The website description is in Spanish. http://www.cuentosinteractivos.org/ Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 6 7 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids Verb of the week every week they present a verb with: Conjugation Sound Review Test You can print materials. Study Spanish is a good site for Middle School and up. They explain very well the Spanish grammar. They have many exercises to practice each topic. They have 9 units. I took this from the website. “Find topics in left sidebar. Frankly, when most people think of "grammar" they don't get very excited. But grammar can teach you something in minutes that might take days to figure out by immersion alone” “Grammar is your friend! We believe in grammar, and we include it in our method. But let's be honest. Studying Spanish grammar will not make you fluent. To reach a conversational level you need a complete course…..“ Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch and German through the music videos and typing the lyrics of the songs. You can choose from an easy activity to a hard activity. Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 7 8 The 10 Best Free Spanish Websites for Kids Miriam Ramos-Warth E-Learning Solutions for Students and Educators Reichenbach 52 71570 Oppenweiler Germany: 07193934804 Fax: 071939515801 USA: 651-321-2041 mramos@elsse.com www.elsse.com @ramoswarth skype: miriamr-w linkedin: Miriam Ramos-Warth Facebook: E-learning Solutions for Students and Educators Blog: ELSSE Xing: Miriam Ramos-Warth YouTube: elearning19 Copyright © 2011 ELSSE. All Rights Reserved | www.elsse.com 8