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Grade 1 · Unit 6 · Mi Familia y Mis Amigos

La Ropa
Clothing

What we wear, every day: clothing words joined with the full color palette for the first true descriptions — la camisa azul.

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

Unit objectives

  • Name eight clothing items
  • Combine clothing with color: los zapatos negros
  • Say what they are wearing with llevo

Can-Do targets

  • I can name what I am wearing.
  • I can describe clothes by color.
  • I can play I-spy using clothing and colors.

Vocabulary scope

la camisa, los pantalones, el vestido, los zapatos, el sombrero, la chaqueta, los calcetines, la falda, llevo

How this unit builds

Kindergarten colors finally get their full job — describing. Noun-then-adjective order is absorbed through use, not rules.

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.

In production
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Lesson 1

La ropa básica — the essentials

In production
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Lesson 2

Llevo… — what I’m wearing

In production
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Lesson 3

El desfile — the fashion show review

Cultural connection

Clothing as living culture

From Guatemalan huipiles to flamenco dresses of Spain, traditional clothing is living culture — studied with respect, never as costume.