10 Spanish Days of the Week Games

If you’re working on days of the week vocabulary with your Spanish classes, there are several ways you can teach them! While you might introduce them and help students gradually acquire the language, sometimes the time frame you have for a unit or pacing guide in a district is short. In that case, you might practice vocab with these Spanish days of the week games!

Spanish Days of the Week

Here are the days of the week in Spanish:

• lunes
• martes
• miércoles
• jueves
• viernes
• sábado
• domingo

They translate:

• lunes – Monday
• martes – Tuesday
• miércoles – Wednesday
• jueves – Thursday
• viernes – Friday
• sábado – Saturday
• domingo – Sunday

Let’s look at 10 Spanish days of the week games!

10 Spanish Days of the Week Games

Check out these digital and printable Spanish days of the week games:

1. Educandy Games
2. Word search, Memory, Puzzle Pack
3. Drag & Drop Word Wall
4. Digital Word Search
5. Corre en Círculos Spanish Scavenger Hunt Game
6. 7 Mini-Games Online
7. Days and Months Boom Cards
8. English/Spanish Matching Game
9. Memory Game
10. 123 TeachMe Drag & Drop

There are a mix of free and paid, digital and printable options linked above. I personally love Boom Cards for a digital option and the Corre en Círculos game for a printable option. Here are some more details about them!

Spanish Days of the Week Boom Cards

These digital task cards hosted on Boom Learning review days of the week and months of the year vocabulary in Spanish. Students will:

• listen and write the word they hear
• listen and put in sequential order
• fill in the missing day or month
• complete the phrase to describe the following day (“Mañana es..”)

There are 48 cards included in this set of auto-checking cards!

Corre en Círculos Spanish Scavenger Hunt Game

Corre en Círculos is one of my all time favorites to get students up and moving!

Here’s how to play this game:

• Students can start at any page around the room.
• Read a prompt at the bottom of a starting page.
• Record their answer to the prompt.
• Find their answer on the top of a new page.
• Look at the prompt on the bottom of the new page, record their answer, then find the next sheet.

This continues until students find the prompt that leads them back to where they started (that’s why I call it ‘Círculo’)!

Click here to download this set to play with your students!

Teaching Spanish Days of the Week

As I mentioned at the beginning of this blog post, there’s more ways to teach this vocabulary than with review games! Here are a few more ideas you can add to your lesson plans:

• Calendar Talk
• Story based unit

Calendar Talk

Calendar Talk is part of my favorite way to start Spanish class. Here’s a quick overview:

This routine is short, but it’s to the point. Since it is done every day, students get very comfortable with the vocabulary, including days of the week! Learn more about the start of class routine in the blog post here!

Story Based Unit

If you’ve seen my blog post on creating a unit plan for Spanish classes based on a story, you know that I love using stories that are purposefully written to incorporate specific verbs and vocabulary are one of my favorite ways to teach!

This unit plan contains 5 days of lessons and activities to teach days of the week and months vocabulary with your Spanish classes. It includes:

• Presentation for use in Google Slides or PowerPoint (download from Slides) to guide your students through the activities and lessons
• Picture Talk to introduce and reinforce vocabulary and structures used in the story
• Two stories and activities to practice days of the week, numbers, and months with your novices
• Listening activities practice a range of different skills, from recognition to comprehension! Great for novice learners! Both script and recording options included!
  *One of the recordings is not a native speaker, one is a native speaker from Spain.
• Use the Running Dictation activity to have some fun movement-based practice with the story.
• Games and puzzles to engage your students in a variety of ways while applying their understanding!
• Links to posts explaining the various activities included
• All versions of the student activities included on Google Slides or Google Forms for you to post for absent students to a secured learning platform
• Answer Keys for activities

Click here to download the unit plan!

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