October Activities for Spanish Class
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| Check out some of my favorite October activities for Spanish class! It’s so hard to believe we’re already in the tenth month of the year, but here we are. Fall is my favorite season and October has some of my favorite things to celebrate! Make the most of the entire month of October with the great activities and ideas below. You can click through to see each individual blog post or activity. |
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5 October Activities for Spanish Class
For starters, remember that Hispanic Heritage month continues until October 15th! There’s plenty of time in October to learn about and recognize contributions made by Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States and world.
Click here to read 10 ways to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month School-wide!
Click here to read Hispanic Heritage Month in Spanish class!
Next, October is definitely the month of spooky fun! Sometimes you don’t want to celebrate any particular holiday, but just enjoy the seasons! Check out the blog post below for fun ways to bring skeletons out of your closet and into your classroom!
Click here to read Skeleton Activities for Spanish Class!
Bring Día de los Muertos to Life in Your Classroom
When it comes to cultural richness and meaningful conversations, Día de los Muertos is a gold mine. Your students may already know about sugar skulls and altars but now is your chance to help them go deeper. Show a short video, read a simple article, or have them reflect on someone they would honor on an ofrenda.
Let them draw their ofrenda, label items in Spanish, and write a few sentences about why those objects matter. You can also do a comparison activity between how Día de los Muertos is celebrated in different countries. Mix in music, art, and movement and suddenly you have a full week of joyful, authentic learning.
Need something that doesn’t mention holidays? I have a few culture-based alternatives too that still bring in vocabulary, visuals, and storytelling without the holiday tie-in!
October Feels Like a Gift
This is the time of year when routines are clicking and your students are getting more confident. October is your chance to lean into the energy of the season and turn it into real language learning. Every activity here is designed to keep things light, meaningful, and fun which is exactly what your classroom needs right now.
Try one or try them all. Mix them in with what you already have. Let yourself enjoy the season too. Teaching Spanish in October should feel festive and fun not stressful. You deserve to love what you’re teaching and your students will feel that energy.
Make It Visual and Let Students Create
October is a great time to let students get crafty. Interactive notebooks, comics, and foldables are a fun way to reinforce language while giving them a creative outlet. Let them create mini books with fall vocabulary or label funny skeletons with adjectives. They can write short poems, design papel picado, or even illustrate a spooky scene and describe it in Spanish.
You get language production, they get to be creative, and everybody wins. No glitter required.
Click here to read Lesson Plans for Day of the Dead!
Click here to read Stations for Day of the Dead!
Enjoy all the great October activities, lesson plans, and ideas shared above. They’re sure to be a hit!
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