Planeamos una fiesta- group work worksheet

I think the topic of celebrations is one of my favorites.
To start the chapter, I ask the kids to look into a celebration ( this year we did various Spanish ones). Then we move onto various celebrations and holidays. We look at what we do during these special days and learn about the past tense. They worked on party planning with white boards this year based on an invitation. (El año nuevo)
But for next year, I just made this group work activity which will have them plan a party and the shopping lists. There is so much I want to add to it (the stores they need to visit, what they would wear), but a two sided worksheet is enough to get them active and thinking in the TL. 
So thank you @betterinspanish for the idea. My hope, is to create a similar activity for the french students as we will study the festivals and celebrations next year in the 8th grade.
I made the worksheet using Pages and icons from Flaticon.com, also used one of my favorite fonts Caviar Dreams.
TPT page link : https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Planear-una-fiesta-plannning-a-Party-Spanish-Worksheet-4166535

Starters for the new school year.

My school is going through a rather massive schedule overall so no bells and 65 minute classes. My aim is to get the kids into a routine asap. While we all aim to be able to choral the kids into our classroom or the aim here is to have a great little first activity to have them all run to my class on time.  ( HAHA we can all dream!) 

So here it is the 30 starters i've compiled into this long infographic. (I will hopefully grow this list into the year and maybe even through the summer).

I hope it will refresh your memory of all the fun stuff and useful you can do in your class without re-inventing the wheel that is.  ( I think you should be able to click on the pictures to see them bigger!

TPT link : https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Starters-for-the-Language-classroom-4144409

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7th Grade Spanish- Celebraciones y Festejos- Board game

In the early stages of teaching the student vocabulary there are lots of games we can play. 
Centering the student on giving them independence with the words and memorization of the words is important. This board game worked really well. I made two sides ( another two level game such as the domino game although this one does not involve scissors ! ) the first side just to practice the day or the date for the festival, short answer response, the other side to practice what the student do that day so they need to say the day and one or two activities they do that day. By laminating the two together I save space and can reuse them. 

I used Canva to make the board game and Flaticon to find the various celebrations.

Next year I'll be teaching French celebrations so I will be creating a new one of those for the French class as they too enjoy board games.