Spanish Games You Can Play Online

Looking for some fun ways to improve your child's Spanish or your own in a funn way? Check out these links for something different.

Spanish Nouns Puzzle Game - a fun easy way to pick up a few new words. Even preschoolers can do this one.

Match Spanish to English - Lock in the piece and see if you're right.

Spanish-English Cycle Race - fun game by Scholastic. Great for kids.

Spanish for Kids - Learn how to say all kinds of words in Spanish.

Have fun with these. Look around the internet and find more. Then, share them here with all of us.

Bye for now!

posted by Joy Delgado
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CD To Enhance Story Time

I’ve been thinking about including a CD of my book, “Zooprise Party / Fiesta Zoorpresa” to go along with a bundle I’m creating of our book and activity book. I’d read the story in both English and Spanish and using a sticky back CD sleeve, stick it in the back of the book.

It got me thinking, why couldn’t any parent out there create CDs of their children’s favorite story. Here’s a senario I’m sure we are all too familiar with:

Okay, you’ve read your child’s favorite book 10 times in a row every night for the past week. She’s memorized it to the point that she corrects you when you say the story a little bit different. You dream the story every night. What can you do?

Create your own CD. What? Yes, create a CD with your voice reading your child’s favorite story to them. This way they can listen to it even when you’re not around.

Okay, how? Most computers these days have all you need to create a personalized recording. Search through all that software that comes loaded on your computer, it’s bound to be there somewhere. On mine it’s under the Accessories and called, simple enough, “Sound Recorder.” All I have to do is start talking. Be sure when you save the file you know where it is on your computer! I’ve lost a few that way.

Now, put in a blank CD and again search for whatever software your computer has that will burn your recording onto a CD. Click a few keys and you’re done.

Now your child can listen to their favorite story with your voice whenever they want.

So, what do you think? Also, if a book already came with a CD, would that factor into your decision on whether you bought it or not? I’d love some feedback on this question.Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you back here Wednesday.

Make Your Own Worksheets

Okay, so you found a book that your child loves. They want to have you read it over and over again.

Now what? You can do arts and crafts that go with the story, bake cookies in the shape of the main characters, but what if you want to go further? What can you do?

Here's one idea I used during 'Zebee's Summer Zoo Camp' this summer. I created fun word sheet puzzles.

How can I do that, I'm not an artist?

Here are two different ways you can creat your own word puzzles like mine.

1. Start with picking the word you want to use, ie antelope or snake and deciding which type of word puzzle you want to create.

2. Find clip art online. I found mine by doing searches like this:

"public domain clip art of apples"

Up popped a bunch of pictures and I chose the one I liked best.

OR

you can look through magazines and cut out pictures that will work with your puzzle.

3. Now you can print out your pictures and glue them onto a piece of paper or you can open a word document and create one like my Antelope one.

OR

you can print them out, glue them onto a piece of paper and write the names of each under the pictures.

If you want to do one like my snake one, open a spreadsheet to creat your puzzle part. Then pop that into a word document, add your pictures and you're done.

OR

you can print them out, glue them onto a piece of paper and then hand draw your word puzzle.

Have fun creating these fun word puzzles. Want to share them? Just send me a copy and I'll post them here.

posted by Joy Delgado
We go Beyond Reading
Laughing Zebra – Books for Children
Check out what’s going on at the zoo!
Zooprise Party / Fiesta Zoorpresa blog

Bilingual Games

Are you looking for ways to teach your child (or yourself) Spanish? I’ve been searching around on the internet looking for fun innovative games to teach Spanish. I haven’t found very many, but here are a few I did find.

link for Maya & Miguel Word Scramble


The Human Body Game - bilingual


Do you know of any other bilingual games? I’d love to hear from you and share your findings.

See you back here Monday with another great book that goes beyond reading.