World languages thematic unit plans for SMART Notebook

La familia IV - Learning about the family in Spanish

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This unit reviews family members and focuses on interpersonal skills, so that your students will be able to speak about their families in Spanish. With carefully selected pictures and engaging activities and games, students have many opportunities to practice the following vocabulary: mama, papa, hermano, hermana, abuelo, abuela, tio, tia, primo, prima, perro, gato, using it in complete sentences. It includes a link to a video, a game, an interpretive reading assessement, an interpretive listeni

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4th - 6th

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Mascotas: el otro miembro de mi familia

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NEW! Now updated design and with worksheets attached. This complete unit has most of what you need to teach about pets in Spanish. With appealing pictures and images, names of pets are introduced and reinforced through engaging activities, videos, songs and games. It includes sound, detailed teaching notes and further suggestions, and 3 worksheets (join the word, graphing, interpretive listening assessment). The language practiced is es, tengo, no tengo, perro, gato, pez, pajaro, cobaya, conejo,

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1st - 3rd

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Nutricion - Food and nutrition

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ATTENTION! This is a Notebook file, intended for use on Smartboards. Look for my PowerPoint version at my store.This unit teaches students about the food groups, how to create a balanced meal, and how to look at food labels to decide if the product is healthy. With plenty of carefully selected images, games and meaningful activities, students will be able to speak about nutrition in Spanish. The unit covers all 3 modes and is aligned with the new FL standards (standards included), at the novice

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4th - 6th

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Vamos a un restaurante

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Ordering food at a restaurant in Spanish is made easy with this thematic unit. With carefully selected pictures, speaking prompts, engaging activities and games, students will review/acquire the language needed to express their preferences about restaurants, communicate with a waiter at a restaurant and exchange conversation with their dinner partners. It includes detailed teaching notes and a page with further resources, as well as a rubric and an advance organizer (differentiated), 3 worksheet

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4th - 7th

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Las comidas del día

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ATTENTION This is a Notebook file, intended for use on Smartboards.This engaging unit will help you teach your students how to speak about their favorite foods and meals of the day, with a cultural focus on Spain. With appealing pictures, a song, carefully selected videos with related tasks, and a lot of games and activities, students will learn vocabulary such as: desayuno, almuerzo, cena, bebidas, postre, and typical foods for each meal, using sentence structures like: Me gusta, no me gusta, c

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3rd - 6th

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Los continentes - learning the continents and oceans in Spanish

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This interactive unit is a great tool for content related FLES programs and Dual Language programs. It is full of fun activities and learning! The students will learn language related to the continents and oceans with carefully selected pictures, a song (along with a related worksheet), games, visuals, links to age appropriate videos, Smartboard activities and online activities. It includes a section about different families from around the world, a section about animals, and 4 attached workshee

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Geography, Spanish

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3rd - 7th

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Listos para la escuela 3

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ATTENTION! This is a Notebook file, intended for use on digital boards.This is the third part in my series of units on the school and the classroom, geared towards third grade (but can also be used in 4-5) and with a cultural focus on Spain. With a series of carefully selected pictures and videos, students get a glimpse of how schools are in some Spanish cities (Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela), while they learn to use simple sentences (es, está, hay, me gusta) to communicate

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3rd - 5th

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La familia 5 - Learning about the family in Spanish

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This unit reviews family members and focuses on interpersonal skills, so that your students will be able to speak about their families in Spanish. With carefully selected pictures and engaging activities and games, students have many opportunities to practice the following vocabulary: mamá, papá, madre, padre, hermano, hermana, abuelo, abuela, tío, tía, primo, prima, perro, gato, using it in complete sentences. It includes a link to a video, a game, an interpretive reading assessement, an interp

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4th - 6th

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Animales de la granja - farm animals in Spanish

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New! Updated with 3 performance tasks (presentational, interpretive and interpersonal). This interactive unit about farm animals will be a success with your students. It has the tools you need for differentiation. It is full of pictures, audio, videos, activities and games to help students acquire the language to talk about farm animals. It includes teacher's notes for every activity, as well as further activities suggestions, and teaches sentences structures like "hay", "es", "hace" "vive", "t

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1st - 3rd

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La casa: learning about the house in Spanish

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ATTENTION: This is a Notebook file intended for use on Smartboards. This unit gives you the tools you need to teach your elementary students to describe their house and the parts of the house in Spanish, with a cultural focus on Mexico. The vocabulary taught is: casa, cocina, comedor, sala, baño, dormitorio, jardín, and the sentence structures used are: es, no es, está. It includes games and activities to reinforce the vocabulary, links to videos and teacher's notes with more teaching suggestion

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1st - 2nd

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La oruga muy hambrienta: activities and games

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This interactive unit offers engaging activities and games based on the popular book "The very hungry caterpillar", by Eric Carle.The main focus is fruits, although it also reviews numbers, days of the week and colors. It includes a printable fruit bingo game and teacher's notes. Some of the language targeted is: me gusta, no me gusta, names of the fruits in the book plus some other fruits. This is a Notebook file, intended for use on Smartboards.

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1st - 3rd

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La familia 3 - Learning about the family in Spanish

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This unit reviews family members and how to speak about the family in Spanish. With carefully selected pictures and engaging activities and games, students learn the following vocabulary and language chunks: mama, papa, hermano, hermana, abuelo, abuela, tio, tia, perro, gato, tengo, no tengo, hay, se llama. It includes a video, a listening assessment, a suggestion for a presentational speaking assessment and a page with more games suggestions, as well as a cultural connection to families in Spai

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3rd - 4th

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La casa 5 - learning about the house in Spanish

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This unit has everything you need to have your fifth graders talking about the house and things in the house in Spanish, with a cultural focus on Central America. With carefully selected visuals, students will practice rooms in the house, objects in the rooms, and family members using sentence structures like hay, no hay, es, no es, está. The presentation has many different chances for the students to practice interpersonal communication, as well as presentational speaking. There are meaningful

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4th - 6th

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Geografía: ¿Cómo es mi mundo?

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This thematic unit starts with a review of the basic concepts town/city, state, country and continents, with simple explanations in Spanish. Then it focuses on the Caribbean compared to North Carolina (can be adapted to another state) and its geography, covering vocabulary like ocean, mountain, lake, river, tropical forest, beach, etc., with simple language and engaging activities. The pictures have been carefully selected for authenticity and are age appropriate. There are also links to a few v

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Geography, Spanish

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4th - 6th

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La ropa: qué llevo

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ATTENTION! This is a Notebook file, intended for use on Smartboards.This complete thematic unit will help you teach clothes related to weather to your students. It includes a short narrative to present the idea "what clothes to wear for the weather", 2 videos, a poem with activities to teach it, performance tasks and 3 worksheets. With carefully selected pictures, engaging listening and speaking activities, a song, games, and link to a video to reinforce the language at home. The unit shows appr

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1st - 2nd

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Animales de mi entorno

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This unit covers animals commonly found on the east coast of the United States. It teaches the different categories of vertebrates (mammals, amphibians, fish, birds and reptiles) and their definition with simple language and a lot of carefully selected images. It has games, video or audio on some animals, and engaging activities, as well as teacher's notes and suggestions. It includes 3 printable assessments (interpretive reading and listening, and presentational writing with rubric included) an

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4th - 6th

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Listos para la escuela 2

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This is the second installment in a series of presentations to learn Spanish language related to school and classroom. The first one had a cultural focus on Mexico, and this one is focused on South America, with videos and pictures of different schools there. After learning about vocabulary classroom in first grade, second graders learn to talk about the classroom and the places in the school, using phrases like hay, está en, es, etc. in conjunction with school vocabulary. The presentation incl

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2nd - 3rd

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Me gustan las frutas

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ATTENTION - This is a Notebook file intended for use on Smartboards.This interactive unit has most of what you need to teach your students to talk about fruits. With carefully selected pictures, engaging activities and fun games, it teaches the sentence structure "me gusta/n", "no me gusta/n" around fruit names, with a review of family and colors and a cultural focus on Mexico. It includes videos with follow up activities, a song, detailed teaching notes and suggestions, a printable listening as

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1st - 3rd

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Animales de España

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Students love learning about animals. This complete unit covers some wild animals from Spain, their classification and description. It has age appropriate pictures and videos, conductive to interpersonal communication. It includes engaging activities and games, detailed teaching notes and suggestions, and a presentational task with differentiation tools included. Vocabulary includes: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish, zorro, delfín, lobo, lince, oso, tiburón, trucha, tortuga, serpien

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Thematic Unit Plans, Activboard Activities

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3rd - 6th

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PROJET Septembre PRIMAIRE

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Mme Nadine Pharand

This mini UNT for your PRIMARY classes is PERFECT for SEPTEMBER. It's a great way to get to know your students and their preferences, review basic concepts, and for some observational assessment of each child's level. This unit includes: the Learning Goal; the Success Criteria; the Oral Language Structures to rehearse with the students (salutations, nom, âge, couleurs, saisons, activités/sports); the Outlines for the draft (five finger plan) and the published version (paragraph); Suggestions f

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French

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1st - 3rd

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Projects, Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard

Animales del mundo

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Students love learning about animals. This complete unit covers wild animals around the world, their classification and description. It has age appropriate pictures and videos, conductive to interpersonal communication. It includes engaging activities and games, detailed teaching notes and suggestions, a quiz, and interpretive and a presentational assessment (reading and writing), with differentiation tools included. Vocabulary includes: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish, animal move

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3rd - 6th

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La familia 2 - Learning about the family in Spanish

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This presentation will help you teach your students how to speak about the family in Spanish. With carefully selected pictures and engaging activities and games, students learn the following vocabulary: mamá, papá, hermano, hermana, bebé, abuelo, abuela, perro, gato. This unit includes a short narrative about diverse families, a song, engaging activities, a game, a listening assessment, and a page with more suggestions and links to videos to reinforce at home. It also has a section about familie

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2nd - 3rd

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Listos para la escuela 5

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This is the fifth installment in a series of units designed to guide students in acquiring the language related to school and classroom. It has a cultural focus on Central America. Students practice speaking about the classroom and the school, using sentence structures like hay, está en, es, etc. in conjunction with school vocabulary. This teaching unit includes carefully selected images to convey meaning, speaking, writing and listening activities and (printable) assessments, a package for a gr

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