Sometimes the rewards students get the MOST excited about are the ones that cost basically nothing. 😂 Not every reward needs to be candy or a prize box or a whole classroom economy system that you then have to manage for the rest of your life....
I love using drawing activities every once in a while in Spanish class because they feel new and different without being confusing....
Sometimes I think the most exhausting part of teaching isn’t even teaching. It’s constantly figuring out what to do next. What activity should I use? Will this fill the period? Is this too easy? Too hard? Will this actually work?...
That moment when your 50-minute lesson finishes in 32 minutes flat. 🥴 And now you’re standing there like… cool cool cool. What exactly are we doing for the next 18 minutes??? We’ve all been there....
Teaching a Spanish food unit sounds simple. Until you actually sit down to plan it. Because now you’re trying to figure out: What food vocabulary should I include? How do I teach how foods taste without it getting repetitive? Where does ser vs estar fit in to this? How do I pace all of this so it doesn’t feel rushed… or drag on forever? And somehow, this turns into pulling activities from 5 different places and hoping it all works together. 🥴...
This blog post could also be titled "What to Do the Day Before Winter Break When Every Student Has Lost Their Minds". 🤪 I teach about Día de los Reyes (3 Kings' Day) in Spanish 1 classes the day before Winter Break, however it would also work great coming back from Winter Break. Since... you know... it's technically a January holiday. 😂...
I once had a boyfriend that “cOuLdN’t BeLiEvE” I was giving my high school students stickers on their quizzes. He didn’t think there was any way that teenage boys appreciated stickers....
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