Spanish

About this course

The language taught here is Spanish. First grade widens the small Kindergarten vocabulary into real word sets your student can use: colors, numbers to twenty, animals, family, parts of the body, food, classroom objects, greetings, and the days of the week. From there it moves into short conversations (asking someone's name, asking how they are, saying please and thank you, asking for help, following simple commands like sientate and escucha), then a first pass at grammar that is genuinely grammar and not just word lists. Your student meets masculine and feminine nouns, el and la, the subject pronouns, the verbs ser, tener, and ir, adjective order after the noun, and the upside-down question mark. A culture unit looks at the map of the Spanish-speaking world, greeting customs, food, Navidad and Las Posadas, traditional games, folk art, church life in Latin America, and missionaries who carried the gospel there. The last two units teach reading and writing directly: the 27-letter alphabet including the letter n with a tilde, the five vowel sounds that never change, blending syllables, then copying words, sentences such as Yo soy una hija de Dios, and a simple Spanish John 3:16.

There are 72 lessons arranged in 8 units of 9. Be aware that units 7 and 8 repeat units 1 and 2 word for word, so the distinct material is 54 lessons and the last two units function as review. Each lesson is planned for about 15 minutes and runs the same way: a short prayer, a paragraph or two introducing the new words or rule with the English meaning beside every Spanish word, a hands-on activity (draw and label your animals, use tengo to name five things in your room, copy a verse), and a short review. Every lesson ends with a ten-question quiz that grades itself, and each carries a KJV verse tied to the day's lesson. Pencil and paper are the only materials.

A few things to know before choosing it. There is no audio and no recorded voice anywhere in the course, so pronunciation depends on you reading the Spanish aloud with your student. Many of the activities are written as though someone is nearby to talk to, since they ask your student to say sentences to a family member or answer questions out loud, and the daily homework is always to practice the day's words on someone in the household. It assumes your student can print letters and read simple English, but assumes no Spanish coming in. What it builds is a working beginner vocabulary, a handful of verb forms, and the ability to sound out written Spanish, not conversational fluency.

What the course covers

• Core vocabulary: colors, numbers, animals, family, body, food
• Classroom words, greetings, and the days of the week
• Simple conversations: names, feelings, courtesy, asking for help
• Masculine and feminine nouns with el, la, un, and una
• Subject pronouns and the verbs ser, tener, and ir
• Adjectives after the noun and Spanish question marks
• The Spanish alphabet and the five constant vowel sounds
• Blending syllables and reading short Spanish sentences
• Copying Spanish words, sentences, and Bible verses
• Culture: the Spanish-speaking world, Navidad, food, art, and missions

What your student will be able to do

• Name colors, numbers, animals, family members, and foods in Spanish
• Introduce yourself and ask someone's name and how they are
• Choose el or la correctly and put adjectives after the noun
• Use ser, tener, and ir in simple first-person sentences
• Sound out written Spanish words using the five vowel sounds
• Copy Spanish sentences and short Bible verses by hand

Scope and sequence

All 8 units of Spanish for Grade 1, in the order they are taught.

Every lesson, by title

All 72 lesson titles are listed here — nothing is withheld until you download. Open a unit to read its contents.

One whole lesson, exactly as it comes

This is a real lesson taken from the middle of the course — the teaching text, the practice, the homework, and the first three quiz questions with their answers. It is not a marketing excerpt.

What you will need

Drawn from the materials named across all 72 lessons of this course. Most families already own most of it.