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I just finished up a unit on animals....Below are some of the activities and songs we used:

Song that reviewed numbers
Uno, dos, tres gatitos (or whatever the animal is you want to introduce).

Game with animals on the whiteboard
Introduce animals with animal pictures with two animals on whiteboard/chalkboard and ask students to touch the right animal with a fly swatter, if you have one...gradually introduce more animals to make the game harder.

We played a game with animal cards (didn't try this with first grade though....only 2nd-4th grade)
Ss could make small flashcards, drawing a picture of the animal for each Spanish word, unless you already have some animal picture cards you could make for the students...Ss ask a partner if they have one of the animals and their partner answers in Spanish. Ss keep asking questions until they get it correct. If you had enough animal cards, you could play Go Fish with the students.

Song by Jose-Luis Orozco - Vengan a Ver Mi Granja (De Colores text)
I downloaded a similar song on the internet. Ss can learn animal sounds (some are different in Spanish). I had a magnetic farm and assigned students in small groups to pretend they were the animals in the song. They got to get up and move around the classroom, following me and coming to look at the farm when the line was sung, Vengan a Ver mi granja.....

Boyce, H. Re: Lower Elementary - animal activities. Foreign Language Teaching Forum (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 5 Mar 2007).

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