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Grade 1 · Unit 5 · Mi Familia y Mis Amigos

El Cuerpo en Acción
The Body in Action

Kindergarten’s body words come back attached to verbs — jumping, clapping, and dancing through commands like a bilingual obstacle course.

🎯 Novice Low → Novice Mid📚 3 lessons planned🚧 Lessons in production

Unit objectives

  • Add hombros, rodillas, dedos, oreja to the body map
  • Follow and give two-step action commands
  • Run full-speed Simón dice with 11 body words

Can-Do targets

  • I can follow two-step commands in Spanish.
  • I can command a friend to jump, clap, or dance.
  • I can name eleven body parts.

Vocabulary scope

los hombros, las rodillas, los dedos, la oreja, salta, aplaude, toca, corre, baila, mueve

How this unit builds

K Unit 7 nouns + new action verbs = the program’s first verb vocabulary, learned through the body.

Planned lessons

What this unit will contain

Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.

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Lesson 1

Hombros y rodillas — new parts

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Lesson 2

Los verbos — action words

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Lesson 3

Simón dice 2.0 — the championship

Cultural connection

The whole song, every word

Cabeza, hombros, rodillas y pies — by the end of this unit students sing every word of the song they hummed in Kindergarten.