Imagine the scenario where you have students working quietly for 3 days creating a "magazine" to show off their Spanish clothing and accessories vocabulary. And cuesta  with numbers, just for funsies. This can be your reality, my friend!...

You ever wonder how you can easily teach calendar vocabulary in Spanish 1? Here are 3 tips to make it seamless and comprehensible!...

You know when you plan that great lesson and it finishes 15 minutes before the bell rings... and you're like omg now what?? And the students stare at you like now what?? Yeah... it happens....

I find the commands unit to be pretty fun to teach. Students love being bossy! 😂...

I like to include listening activities in my Spanish classes as much as I can. It can be seriously challenging to find good listening activities for lower-level students, though. Textbooks only have so many (good) listening comprehension activities, and it can be tricky to find recordings of Spanish speakers who speak SLOWLY and CLEARLY . Here are five great websites that I've found and used in my Spanish 1 and 2 classes: ...

The whole point of a quiz is to assess students' knowledge. Not their eyesight of their neighbor's answers. 😒 If you have students with wandering eyes, I have a tip for you! ...

My first year of teaching I lived with my parents.  It was great because I worked 12 hours days and that meant dinner was hot and ready for me when I got home at 8pm. But also... I was working 12 hours days and living with my parents....