68 new resources today!

I've just finished uploading 68 new resources to the website:

• 19 minibooks for primary French - all can be found on this page  The easiest way to find them will be (on a computer) to do CTRL+F and type into the box either "3.7.20" (date of upload) or "minibook".  On a smartphone or tablet tap the 3 dots in the top right corner and say select "Find in page", and type in the same information.
• 19 minibooks for primary Spanish, at least one for each unit of the scheme of work.  Looked at in a sequence, these show well the progression of the scheme.
• "I can" cards for the 18 units of the new KS2 Spanish scheme of work, underneath the scheme of work documents
• Various new sentence builders and odd one out activities for KS2 Spanish, many of them for the new unit 17, and also some for units 8, 9, 10, 13 and 16.

DON'T FORGET:  Lumen's Language Challenges - arts and crafts with a language theme, ideal for the end of term

DON'T FORGET: Learn Spanish at home - 58 videos and accompanying activities for home study, good for non-specialists who want to upskill, as well as children!

DON'T FORGET: Display resources for French, Spanish and German, just right for your new classroom!

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website. 

11 new resources today

I've just uploaded 11 new resources and the latest #LanguageLinks:

• Resources for primary Spanish unit 9 (worksheets)
• Resources for primary Spanish unit 13 (worksheets)
• and a few other bits and pieces for Unit 14, Unit 16 and Unit 17.

All resources added today will say "added 23.6.20".  On your computer you can do CTRL+F and type the date in to find all the new resources on that page.

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

35 new resources today

This week I've been working through my Trello list of new resources that I need to make, and have just uploaded 35 new resources, mainly for KS2 Spanish, to accompany the new scheme of work.

• KS2 French - adjectival agreement (Les citrons ne sont pas rouges) and Matisse

• KS2 Spanish:
  - family
  - pets
  - Unit 7 (En el parque de animales)
  - Months and days
  - Unit 9 (¿Tienes hambre?)
  - Weather (Unit 10)
  - Big numbers (Unit 11)
  - Unit 13 (descriptions)
  - Unit 16 (En mi pueblo)
  - Unit 17 (Así soy yo)

All resources added today will say "added 18.6.20".  On your computer you can do CTRL+F and type the date in to find all the new resources on that page.

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

New Knowledge Organisers for KS2 Spanish

People have been asking about the knowledge organisers to accompany my new scheme of work for Key Stage 2 (age 7-11) Spanish, so I have uploaded all 20 of them now that they are finished (20, because 2 units needed 2  - it simply wouldn't fit all on 1 sheet!)  You'll find them here.  Thank you to all the LiPS (Languages in Primary Schools) members for their constructive feedback and suggestions.

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  It took 5 days to make these 20 Knowledge Organisers.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

New scheme of work for Key Stage 2 Spanish

If you are a regular visitor to the Primary Spanish pages of the website, you'll notice that there have been some big changes.

I have completed my new scheme of work (read its story here), and have uploaded it to the site - click on Scheme of Work for all the documents.  The previous scheme is still there, in a zipped file called Legacy Scheme.

The new units and changed units have required a big change around of the resources.  The resources are now in the order of the new scheme, but I haven't deleted any, so you'll still find all your favourites, just maybe in a different place.

I have a big long list of new resources to make to accompany the new scheme.  You can subscribe to this blog by filling in the "Follow by email" box on the right hand side under the labels.  That way you won't miss any news about new resources.

I made the images in Canva, by the way.  Did you know that if you can prove to Canva that you're a teacher, you can get a free Pro account?

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

40 new resources today

I've just uploaded 40 new resources to the site.

The following French resources are designed for KS2, but if you teach KS3 you may also find them useful:

• Key verb posters
• Number builders (like sentence builders!)
• Saying your age and birthday sentence builders
• Talking about siblings and friends sentence builder
• Sports, and sports with opinions sentence builders.  More to come of these.
• Describing the planets sentence builder
• Describing a monster sentence builder
• Cross-curricular Art and French activity about French artists (you may have seen this on Twitter or Facebook)
• For pets, a minibook, plurals sheet and sentence builder
• 5 different sentence builders for telling the time, in different levels of complexity
• A food and opinions sentence builder

These Spanish resources are designed for KS2 but secondary colleagues might find them useful:

• Cross-curricular Art and Spanish activity, about Spanish artists (you may have seen this on Twitter or Facebook)
• Saying your birthday sentence builder
• For pets, a plurals PowerPoint, plurals counting sheet and a minibook
• 5 different sports sentence builders, with different levels of complexity
• 4 sentence builders for telling the time, with different levels of complexity

Enjoy!

You can now purchase #LanguageLinks and phrase of the day merchandise!  Just have a look in our Zazzle store and see if there's anything that takes your fancy.

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  It takes a day to make three videos.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

Lots of new resources

I've just finished uploading a number of new resources:

• The latest French, Spanish and German #LanguageLinks.  There are 325 now.
• The last videos for Learn Spanish at Home (Spanish for Key Stages 1 and 2).  I have now completed all 58 videos I had planned and you'll find them on this page with their accompanying materials.
• Spanish key verb posters for ser, tener and ir
• A number of flowchart sentence builders (read more about them here and here)
  - Colours and ser (Spanish)
  - Food and opinions (Spanish)
  - Describing your flag (2 different ones) (Spanish)
  - Physical description / adjectival agreement (Spanish)
  - Describing strange animals (Spanish)
  - Talking about siblings and friends (Spanish)
  - Talking about pets (Spanish)
  - Building numbers in the 1000s (Spanish)
  - Describing the planets (Spanish)
  - Describing your flag (2 different ones) (French)
• You will also find some other flowchart sentence builders in the accompanying activities for videos 39 onwards in Learn Spanish at Home.
  
  

Another exciting development is that you can now purchase #LanguageLinks and phrase of the day merchandise!  Just have a look in our Zazzle store and see if there's anything that takes your fancy.

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  It takes a day to make three videos.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

Learn Spanish at home

Light Bulb Languages is hosting a series of video lessons for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Spanish.  The lessons follow the scheme of work on the website with a few alterations that are part of a restructuring of the scheme that will be online soon.

You may have heard of or seen the Spanish lessons that are being offered by the Oak National Academy.  However their lessons are assuming that all the children are starting from scratch.  The Light Bulb Languages lessons so far have lessons for Years 1-3, and more will be added so as to provide something for all year groups.

Each lesson has accompanying activities, which might be games, songs or downloadable reading and writing activities.

The downloadable guide for parents and teachers shows the overview of the lessons.

All feedback is welcome :)


All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  It takes a day to make three videos.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

21 new resources today

I've uploaded today 21 new resources for Primary French and Spanish:

• A new "What's in the box?" for French school equipment (Thanks Jayne!)
• A new pairs worksheet for describing body parts with colour (French)
• A new family tree worksheet, for creating an imaginary family tree
• New PowerPoints and worksheets for teaching family to Year 3 Spanish
• New PowerPoints and worksheets for working on personal description with Year 4 Spanish 
• New PowerPoints for pets (Spanish)
• New resources for teaching colours alongside the verb ser - Y3 Spanish
• New resources for sports - Y5 Spanish

I've also added some more #LumenChallenges - there are now 10.  Have a go!

All Light Bulb Languages resources are provided free of charge.  Please consider making a donation to the website to enable more resources to be made.  Merci, gracias, danke and grazie.

Update on resources

I've checked all the French and Spanish interactives so they should all work for you now.  You do need to have Flash for some of the older ones.

For French I have added:

• colours
• family members
• days of the week
• describing hair and eyes

For Spanish I have added:

• en mi pueblo, including places in town, transports, adjectives and the verb Ir
• weather

There are now five different #LumenChallenges and already completed challenges are being posted on our social media!  There will be more to come.

All Light Bulb Languages resources are provided free of charge.  If you have found them useful, please consider making a donation to the website to enable more resources to be made.  Merci, gracias, danke and grazie.