Are you looking for a meaningful end of year activity to do with your Spanish students? I stumbled upon this wonderful activity with my own sixth grade, Spanish I students that I think you will love! It’s low-prep and low-energy for teachers, but fun and rewarding for students. Win-win!
My sixth graders finished our final unit with just two days to spare, and I found myself in a panic of what to do on our last day of Spanish class. In one of those truly magical teacher moments, I pulled something out of the air that ended up being a GREAT activity that I will repeat next year.
On the first day of Spanish class, I greeted students at the door with cognate cards. They used those cards to find their seats in my classroom. Then I asked them to share their cards with me during a Spanish storytelling activity. The goal was to calm some of their fears on the first day of Spanish class and show them that Spanish would be easy to understand and fun to learn. This led into my first week of lessons about cognates and setting expectations for the year in Spanish.
On the last day of Spanish class, I passed out the cards again. Each group received about six or seven cards, along with a piece of paper. I told them that they were going to show me how much they had learned this year by revisiting what we did on the first day of school in Spanish class. They should use the cards as a jumping off point to begin their Spanish stories and fill in any additional vocabulary they had learned during the year. I let students know that they would be presenting their stories to class at the end. The students (and I!) were both REALLY impressed by how far they had come and how much Spanish they had learned in just one year!
