Winter Listen and Draw Spanish Activity

Check out a quick, fun, seasonal activity that is NOT holiday related in today’s blog post! This time of year it kind of is tricky because there’s lots and lots of fun holiday things we can do, but this is just wintry fun. Take a look at this winter listen and draw Spanish activity!

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Winter Listen and Draw Spanish Activity

Vocabulary included:

Clothing:

• abrigo
• botas
• bufanda
• gorro
• guantes
• mitones
• suéter

Colors:

• amarilla
• anaranjado
• azul
• rojo
• rosado
• marrones
• morados
• negro
• verde

It’s perfect for your Spanish One students because it’s clothing and color vocabulary in a fun seasonal way! We’re talking about snowmen and their attire in this activity.

How to Use the Winter Listen and Draw Spanish Activity

Classic Dictation

I’m going to give you a few different options for ways you can use it in your classes. Option one is classic dictation, and if you’ve never done classic dictation before, this is one of my favorites for a very calm, relaxed day in class.

Students listen, and you can either read the script for them, you can just click play on the audio files, or you can give them the audio files in Google Classroom, and they can just listen. They’re going to listen, and they’re going to do their best to write down what they hear.

Winter Listen and Draw Spanish Activity

If you want to kind of level that up a notch, the next option is called Listen, Write, and Draw. And as you might expect, it’s very similar to the Classic Dictation Sheet, but now we’re adding a step. As with Classic Dictation, you can read the script for them, you can play the audio, or you can give them the audio.

This time, instead of just listening and writing, they’re adding the draw step. I really like the draw step for this particular set of audio files because it emphasizes clothing and colors vocabulary. It’s nice to have them show you they didn’t just hear it and were able to write it down. You can see that they heard it, wrote it down, and understood it, and they’re going to show you that through their illustrations.

They don’t have to be Picasso or anything, it just needs to be clear enough that you can see, “Yep, they know these clothing words, yes, they know these color words.” Again, this is a very relaxed day. It works really well as a sub plan if you need one.

Running Dictation Listen and Draw Spanish Activity

Option three is the exact opposite of a relaxed day, at least for them.

If you’ve seen my other posts, you know that I really like to have students up and moving around. Not every class can handle that, so that’s why I like to have some other options like classic dictation, or listen, write, and draw. Some classes can handle it, but we JUST did an up and moving around activity, and now I want something a little bit more calm. But, if none of those scenarios apply? Enter: running dictation.

Set Up

Running dictation is the up and moving option and it’s super easy to set up! Print the sentences, cut them, then you’re going to hang these up in the hallway. If you don’t have a hallway space, you’re going to hang them up in the hallway, or if you don’t have a hallway space that works for you, you can always just tape them around your classroom.

If you’re going to do that, I always recommend either taping them backwards, so they have to flip it up and look at it, or printing them smaller.

I do have tutorials for how to print handouts a little bit smaller than the size that they come in, just because you don’t want students to be able to look up, read it, and write it down. Watch the tutorial above if you need help!

How to do Running Dictation

Once you’ve set it up by printing out the slips and hanging them either in the hallway or in your classroom, you’re going to split up your students into pairs or groups of three. I personally prefer pairs.

Each pair or group of students needs to have a handout. One student is going to be up and they’re gonna be the runner (or the fast walker) and they’re going to go look at one of the slips of paper on the wall and they’re going to memorize it.

Then they return to their partner who is seated with the sheet of paper and a pencil, and they’re going to listen and they’re going to record what their partner says to them. Unlike the other two options where you are playing the audio files or you are reading the script for them, in this case, it’s students speaking for each other.

Once they’re halfway through the sentences, they will switch roles. So the person who was the runner is now going to be the writer. When they get all the way through, I like to check their work for accuracy and I tell them, “You have to make sure your sentences are perfect!”.

If they’re not, I’ll just circle the letter, or tell them you have two mistakes depending on where we are in time and how long it took them to finish, just use your best judgment.

Finally, they’re going to cut their sheets in half. One partner is going to illustrate one half, the other partner is going to illustrate the other half. They’ll put their names on the boxes and then they’ll cut them apart because then we might use these for other activities in the future.

Winter Listen and Draw Spanish Activity Extension Ideas

• Students cut apart images and sentences for matching games
• Students write 10 sentences of their own, describing imaginary snowmen
• Students trade and do a dictation with a partner, then check work

Winter Listen and Draw Spanish Activity

There you have it! An easy, fun, seasonal, but not holiday activity you can do with your Spanish 1 students. You can do any of those options with them, or you can mix and match. If you have a student who’s absent, you might want to do one of those individualized activities while everybody else does running dictation.

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