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Home > Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers – Bilingual Products & Advice for Fluency

Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers – Bilingual Products & Advice for Fluency

Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers an E-Guide
Teaching? Check out our Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide

Teaching Spanish to preschoolers and kindergarteners should involve fun ways of learning to capture the children’s powerful imaginations. They love stories, play, acting, songs…

All of our preschool products can be used with kindergarteners.

Go beyond teaching lists of colors, numbers, and days of the week. Your preschool children can do so much more!

Get them talking fluently at home and at school!

Teaching Spanish to toddlers require a little different approach. We also have Spanish products for kids up to 10.

“I’m always looking for ways to improve our preschool program, so I decided to start a Spanish enrichment program. I had a completely different notion as to what it was going to be like when I started looking. I figured it was going to be teaching a lot of colors, shapes and numbers. Then I looked at Ana’s curriculum and I thought ‘Boy, I’ve got it all wrong!'” — Debby Daniel-Bryant, Preschool administrator

Make Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers Fun, Using Stories, Songs, Acting, and Games!

Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers MaterialsMany of our customers are surprised that they can get children, especially 3 year olds, to talk to each other in Spanish. But, yes, this is very possible when you use our products.

And this is what our products are designed for.

Through Ana Lomba’s many years of teaching experience and scientifically based research of how young children learn best, she’s developed many products for the home and classroom.

Using stories, songs, games, and acting, children learn Spanish in context. This is required for fluency.

Teaching Spanish to preschoolers in a natural, fun, best way involves experiences that are theatrical, highly active, and sensory.

Using the context of everyday activities, play, songs, and storytelling are powerful strategies for teaching Spanish fluency with everyday language.

Most of our products are designed to work together, but also they can standalone, too.

Our Spanish Lesson Plans Are Based Around Classic Stories

Curriculum: The Little Red Hen (French & English)We use classic stories that children are familiar with because they already have an understanding of them. This makes teaching the Spanish version so much easier.

We are in the process of updating our lesson plans from the first edition to the second. We recently released our second edition of The Little Red Hen/La gallina roja. For preschoolers and kindergarteners.

See our full list of lesson plans and themes.

The lesson plan units include many ideas for hands-on activities and games that you can ask the parents to use at home with their children. Engaging parents is fabulous in all respects, but perhaps the most important effect is that children have a role model and a learning companion.

Many of our customers have never taught before but can effectively use our lesson plans because you have a script. You can easily modify it to suit your needs.

“Neither one of [our Spanish teachers] had been teachers before. They’re just people in the community who happen to have a love of kids and are interested in doing this program, but it is such a thorough program, they can follow it and do it.” — Debby Daniel-Bryant, Preschool administrator

Our Bilingual Stories for Home and Classroom

Besides the story-based curricula, you can purchase our classic bilingual story versions as books with audio, storybook apps, or as an eStorybook subscription. These products are for all ages.

Hear native speakers reading the stories. Or read the stories aloud without sound.

Storybook App: The Little Red Hen Spanish & English App
See our Storybook Apps
Little Red Riding Hood Spanish & English Cover
See our Books with Audio
Spanish stories for kids estorybooks
See our eStorybooks Subscription

Using Songs and Games at Home and in the Classroom

Hop, Skip, and Sing Spanish for Kids CD CoverWe have 2 Spanish products for preschoolers that contain songs and games: Play and Learn Spanish with Audio CD and Hop, Skip, and Sing Spanish (Audio CD) to learn Spanish.

While our Spanish lesson plans spell out which songs to use, these products are great for parents too to provide support at home for the children.

Parents, learn the songs, games, and rhymes and use them interactively with your children.

Spanish for Kids: Play and Learn Spanish CoverOur Play and Learn Spanish with Audio CD (part of our Parents’ Choice Award-winning series) teaches fluent Spanish in a fun, natural way. It’s great for the classroom and home.

For parents, at the core of Play and Learn Spanish are 50+ everyday conversations between Spanish moms and dads and their young kids. These conversations will help you fine-tune your ear to fluent, everyday Spanish that you can use as you go on with your daily routines with your child.

This book includes two board games.

Children Love Acting and Using Props at Home and the Classroom

ToonFlips©: The Little Red Hen Printables
See our ToonFlips© Props

Pretend or dramatic play is a particularly good way to learn languages. Isn’t it fantastic that preschoolers LOVE it?

You could easily say that preschool IS the age of pretend play. Some of your students will even come to class dressed up in costumes!

Pretend play may look simple, but it is actually a very sophisticated type of play. Young children begin to detach themselves from the here and now characteristic of the toddler years and start exploring important things such as

  • symbolism (e.g. this is a pretend farm, not a real farm)
  • cultural influences on people’s behavior and roles (e.g. what moms do, what doctors do in a particular culture)
  • personality and emotions, etc., etc.
“The 3-year olds tend to be kind of quiet, yet they want to come up and act out a part. They love holding the ToonFlips and I think that is helpful to have the puppet to pretend to be.” — Karla Alvord, Preschool teacher

And all of this takes place through the medium of their powerful imagination!

One important thing to know is that since young children have not yet developed a high degree of symbolic thinking. They depend on props for their dramatic play (e.g. costumes, toys that resemble the real thing, and other props).

We have ToonFlips© Props to help get your preschoolers involved in a story. (These props come with our curriculum sets.)

The ToonFlips© help the children pretend to be a character from the story. They also act as cues to tell the children who is talking.

Learn More Strategies for Teaching Preschoolers

Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide
See our Spanish for Preschoolers Teaching E-Guide

The Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide gives you a comprehensive view of Ana’s unique approach to immersing your students in Spanish. You can use what you learn to inform your own program, no matter where you decide to go from there.

“We looked at different materials until Maria found Ana Lomba. We first bought the Spanish for Preschoolers E-guide. We found it as an excellent resource to start, very inspiring, motivating and useful.” — Carolina Posadas, Mother of bilingual children and founder of a playgroup and preschool program

In specific, you will:

  • Learn how to effortlessly immerse your students in Spanish. (Teaching lists of colors, numbers and days of the week in Spanish is not teaching a language!)
  • With the techniques she will show you, your students will be on their way to acquiring a complete language from day one.
  • Discover the different types of activities that young kids enjoy doing most, so they’ll love being in class, absorb information quickly, and learn while having fun.
  • Find out how to create, use and expand activities for your preschool Spanish lesson plans. This includes…
    • Tips to create activities that will help you move quickly toward meaningful, everyday communication. You don’t need to be a language expert to learn these techniques!
    • Practical strategies to integrate literacy into your curriculum. Building strong reading – and writing – skills in Spanish is an important success factor on the way to being truly bilingual.
    • How to plan your own thematic units, so that you never again have to worry about what you will do tomorrow in class.

Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide also includes these 2 special BONUSES:

  • A sample 60-minute lesson plan from one of my thematic units.
  • A template you can use to start creating your own units.

And the best thing is that, since the E-Guide also covers the toddlers, preschool, and early elementary years, you will have plenty of ideas to keep you going for a few years!

Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers – Home & Classroom

  • Storybook Apps

  • eStorybook Subscriptions

  • Children's Books & CDs

  • ToonFlips© & Posters

  • Games (More Coming Soon)

  • Free Products

  • List of Lesson Plans & Themes

  • Teaching Guide

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