Sing 'n Speak Spanish

02/25/2020

Teachers and Parents: We now have available downloadable individual stories from our Childhood Adventure Set 1 storybook. Check out the first one for free! See how quickly your child learns to read the stories and how it helps her retain the vocabulary.
To help our more advanced students with verb conjugation and vocabulary development and retention, we also have available digital downloads of two excellent board games from the final chapters in our Year 3 and Year 4 curriculula!
Click here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sing-N-Speak-Spanish

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02/12/2020

Interactive puppetry is a magical part of the Sing ‘n Speak Spanish program as it helps children overcome shyness and converse in Spanish. The puppet skits are usually a child’s favorite part of the lesson and they always want more! There are numerous humorous puppet skits embedded in the Year 1 and Year 2 Spanish lessons.

Many teachers don’t know how to use puppets and have a tendency to skip the skits. I encourage you to learn how to use the puppets and learn how to make the skits interactive. Once you are having more fun than your students, you are there. Go to https://singnspeak.com/tip-7-interactive-puppetry-training-video/ to view a traning video on interactive puppetry.

I hope you enjoy it!

01/31/2020

The inspiration for Sing ‘n Speak Spanish® originally stemmed from my love of singing in Spanish (since I grew up in Mexico City) and the power songs have in aiding memory retention. In 6th grade, my English teacher taught our class a preposition song to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.” I still know it perfectly and will never forget it. As a way of saying “Thank you” to all my customers around the country, I wrote a parallel preposition song for you in Spanish. It only contains prepositions of physical location. I hope you teach it to your students with creative gestures. I would love to see video clips! Enjoy! To hear the song, go to https://singnspeak.com/tip-6-preposition-song/

Sincerely,
Julia Burnier, Director
Sing 'n Speak Spanish

Learn Spanish prepositions with a fun song

12/30/2019

Happy Days for Sing ‘n Speak Spanish® Teachers!
Many of you have asked for a way to ASSESS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT with our program. I am thrilled to announce that assessment exams for Years 1B, 2, and 3 Spanish are now available. Assessment for the higher levels is under development.

Here’s the website link with details: https://singnspeak.com/assessing-student-achievement.html

Julia Burnier, Director
Sing ‘n Speak Spanish

03/25/2018

I think my Translation Sensation game is a fun and effective way to reinforce vocabulary and grammar for either Spanish or English learners. Few people know about this product, so I have put together a 10 minute Powerpoint video so you can learn about this wonderful product. Enjoy!

12/08/2016

Spanish students get confused on the use of SER and ESTAR (the two forms of the verb "to be") and when to use each of these. Even after a lot of review, students still get confused because this just isn't easy to internalize.

I have put together a chart that I hope will be helpful to your students. The chart is not comprehensive, but it focuses on the major distinctions which we emphasize with our elementary/middle school aged students during our teaching of these two critical verbs.

04/07/2016

Great News!

I am delighted to announce that all the Sing 'n Speak Spanish songs from Year 1 - Year 5 Spanish are now available on iTunes as well as CD baby This is particularly important for the many schools who use our program but cannot afford to buy each student a music CD and songbook. Now you can encourage parents to download the songs into their iTunes or CD Baby library so their students can listen to them often.

To find the songs, parents should search on either “Julia Burnier” or “Patti Lozano.” The Year 1A, Year 2, and Year 5 Spanish CDs are by Patti Lozano, and the Year 1B, Year 3, and Year 4 Spanish CDs are my own.

I call my program "Sing 'n Speak Spanish" because I am a firm believer that children learn vocabulary and grammar best when it is reinforced heavily with cathy songs. You will see a huge difference in vocabulary retention, the incorporation of simple grammar structures, and of course pronunciation.

Julia Burnier

03/16/2015

The use of gestures for many words (TPR or total physical response) is central to the way we teach Spanish with the Sing 'n Speak Spanish program. Check out this very informal video for teachers which shows the gestures we use for personal pronouns and for the most commonly used helper verbs in Spanish. We use these to introduce conjugation of verbs, to practice sentences, in games like charades, and in songs. Enjoy and see how quickly your students learn pronouns and helper verbs in your classroom.

https://youtu.be/XOfIaJbpGPU

Total Physical Response (TPR) gestures are the "mantra" of the Sing 'n Speak Spanish program. This short video shows TPR gestures for personal pronouns and h...

02/24/2015

I love this video of the song "La Mochila" by Patti Lozano in her CD "Spanish Grammar Swings." We use this CD in the Year 5 Sing 'n Speak Spanish curriculum. Enjoy!
http://www.fluentu.com/spanish/play/993/the-backpack-patti-lozano/

Why is your backpack so heavy? Practice answering this question with plenty of vocabulary, forms of the verb "ser" and singular and plural articles, all to a catchy tune that will have you singing along in no time.

02/24/2015

Check out this short video, nicely illustrated, with lots of useful vocabulary on our surroundings.
http://www.fluentu.com/spanish/play/1010/where-are-we-describing-our-surroundings/

Where do you live? Where are you? Learn how to answer these questions and describe the land around you with these short, useful phrases.