Spanish Teaching Resources for Kids
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I have seen a lot of questions lately about resources to teach kids Spanish. We have been doing Spanish in our home for several years now with a variety of resources. I have researched this a lot and found some great fun resources available out there. There are tons of FREE Spanish teaching resources as well as some great curriculum options if you are willing to spend some money. Also find more ideas by following along on Pinterest with this great group Spanish Learning Board.
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Spanish Learning Websites:
Salsa Spanish~ a children’s TV series that is free to watch online. It is all in Spanish, but you can open a  PDF transcript that translates it for each episode. There are also a few games and activities that go along with it.
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Mi Vida Loca~ Another Spanish TV show that you can watch for free. This one is geared towards older kids. They are mystery shows that include lessons and learning activities. There is even a teacher’s guide and syllabus to follow.
Rock A Lingua~ subscription site, but lots of free stuff, too!
Online Free Spanish~ this is a great free website with tons of resources for teaching kids.
123 Teach Me ~Spanish for Kids~ another free site with lots of great games, and resources for teaching Spanish to kids
Spanish Town– Free lessons in lots of subjects and levels for kids and adults!
Live Mocha– set up a free account and take amazing free lessons online!
Study Spanish– this site has free and paid options for learning Spanish online.
Spanish 411 is a website with lots of free printable Spanish lessons and resources and even a dictionary.
Videocuentos has a ton of kids movies in Spanish.
Spanish Teaching Blogs:
Teaching and Learning Spanish– a blog full of so many wonderful Spanish Teaching Resources!
Spanish Playground is another great blog full of Spanish teaching resources!
Toad Haven is a homeschool blog, but has a great round-up of free online activities to teach Spanish.
There are tons of fun Spanish learning movies on You Tube:
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Here are a few I liked…
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El Perro y El Gato~ a funny show about a cat & a dog that teach Spanish words
When you start watching, even more come up on the side, so explore a little!
Spanish Curriculum for Teaching Kids:
  We have used several of these and loved them!  Check out my reviews on some of them.
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Speekee Spanish (My Review)
Homeschool Spanish Academy (My Review)
Song School Spanish (My Review)
Spanish For You (My Review)
Mango Spanish– some libraries offer this for free online (mine does!) It is a really nice program similar to Rosetta Stone
Little Pim Spanish– this is for very young children. They have videos for kids that teach them vocabulary.
Pimsleur has all kinds of language programs and they are very affordable.
I am not sure how will they work for kids, though.
Flip Flop Spanish– I have heard great things about this one. The Homeschool Crew is reviewing this program soon!
52 Weeks of Family Spanish (My Review) This book is a lot of fun and we still pull it out to use regularly.
Sonrisas Spanish a full Spanish curriculum for kids
Lightning Fast Spanish (My Review) a good book for teaching basics!
What are your favorite teaching resources for teaching foreign language in your homeschool?
Great list. will pin to my Spanish Board. I liked an app called Gus on the Go, designed for young kids; and Mindsnack has a Spanish app for older kids.
These are some great homeschooling resources to help our children learn Spanish. I will have to pin this post to look at again next year for my kids. Thank you for linking up this week to the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop 🙂
I am always looking for some great Spanish homeschooling resources! Thank you so much for sharing. Thanks for linking up with the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop, you were featured as one of my favorites last week 🙂
What a great list! I’ve been thinking about teaching my kids Spanish and it looks like this is the place to start! Featuring on this coming Thursday’s Hearts for Home blog hop. Thanks!
I just ran across this today. Thank you so much for linking to my Teaching and Learning Spanish blog. Since I’m also a homeschooling mom, I don’t have as much time to devote to it as I would like, but it is something I truly love to do – share resources with homeschool and classroom teachers.
This is awesome! Gracias!
Thanks for the post! We particularly like whistlefritz. 🙂
I have some videos (songs) that maybe useful to for teaching Spanish. http://youtube.com/user/mindymarissa. I have videos for teaching:
farm animals
Numbers
vowels
Months of the year
Colors
A birthday song
I have videos that I will soon upload to teach
Up and down
Days of the week
A song about bunnies
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I really hope that somebody will find them helpful. Thanks!
Mindy
I am looking for a program I can use at home to teach my 10 year old daughter how to write Spanish. She is a fluent speaker and also can read it. I am not a teacher, but I am fluent in Spanish and want to invest the time in teaching her, but with so many programs, I don’t know which one would be best for my needs. Has anyone run into this? and what did you guys use? I don’t mind paying for a good program that I can use for a while.
thanks!
Great share you have here. Thanks for sharing those links.
Do you, in any way, know of an app that can help teach Spanish to kids as well? Preferably one with a kids voice as well. We at schools are slowly gearing towards adding e-learning in our curriculum and we would appreciate as much assistance and help with learning materials.
Thanks for the share!.
We have an online program where kids 6 years or older can be tutor one on one with native teachers via skype. You can review the program at:
http://www.1to1languages.com/spanish/spanish-for-children-online
Regards.
Great ideas- thank you! The link you have posted for the “Feelings” linguarock video is actually linked to the “Transporation” video, by the way. Still many helpful ideas that I can’t wait to delve into.
This site provides online vocabulary and immersive lessons helping kids learn Spanish, it offers free vocabulary practice and payed lessons at a low yearly cost. mykidslearnspanish.com is interactive and has an advertisement free environment for kids. it works on our samsung note3 but not on our Ipad.
Thanks for sharing! I will check it out.
Thanks for the great ideas!!
Hi Karyn, thanks so much for your service to the homeschool & early language learning communities with this post! I am a homeschool mom, Spanish teacher, language education blogger, and curriculum developer and thought I’d share a couple of things-
My Spanish teacher friend and fellow bilingual mami Elisabeth over at SpanishMama has collected a series of resources to help learners navigate and get the most of the Mi Vida Loca videos and I thought you might find them helpful: http://spanishmama.com/mi-vida-loca/
Also, Calico Spanish asked me a few years ago to think through with them what a curriculum for homeschool families who don’t speak Spanish would look like and I’ve greatly enjoyed developing Calico Spanish Homeschool – three levels so far! In my work with the company I’ve done a ton of research on the various programs available for homeschoolers and we’re about to launch a series of pages that compares the ones I’ve investigated in-depth, including Foreign Languages For Kids By Kids, Whistlefritz, Rosetta Stone Homeschool, and even Duolingo and Babbel. I’m the author on the Calico Spanish program so I readily admit there will be bias! But I feel like the comparisons could be a really good resource for the community since I’ve seen so many questions like “Can anyone weigh in on —- vs. —-?” but no one has really done the research yet to provide that answer.
If you’d like to see the curriculum you can check out an activity sheet in this blog post “Adapting activity sheets for preliterate learners” https://calicospanish.com/preliterate-activities/ or to see the whole curriculum, you can get a free 7-day trial at CalicoSpanish.com/homeschool. Cathy Duffy also just published her review: http://cathyduffyreviews.com/homeschool-reviews-core-curricula/foreign-language/spanish/calico-spanish
Hi, the links to your reviews are not working. Please update 🙂
Oh no! Thanks for letting me know. They are all updated now!
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Hi, I need help. I’m going to study Spanish but don’t know how to start. Most of forums and my classmates recommended me to look for spanish teacher at https://preply.com/en/skype/spanish-tutors. I’ve read about this pltaform and comments are very good. What do you know? What can you recommend?