El Sol, la Lluvia y la Fiesta
Sun, Rain, and the Party
📐 Standards alignment
ACTFL World-Readiness: Communication (interpersonal, interpretive, presentational) · Cultures (the fiesta — celebrating learning with familia) · Comparisons (Spanish vs. English)
Can-Do targets (NCSSFL-ACTFL, Novice Low):
- I can name four kinds of weather in Spanish.
- I can give a morning weather report.
- I can play Spanish games from every unit of my Kindergarten year.
Learning objectives
- Name four weather words in Spanish
- Give a mini weather report out the window
- Celebrate and review the whole Kindergarten year
Materials
A window. Party supplies to taste: music, snacks from Unit 9, papel picado from Unit 2 homework if it survived.
Prior knowledge
Everything! The fiesta replays all ten units.
Key vocabulary
el sol · la lluvia · la nieve · el viento
The window report
Look out the window like a TV meteorologist. What is the sky doing today? By the end of this lesson, your child reports it in Spanish.
Meet four new words
Tap each card to flip it and hear how it sounds. Look at the picture, say the Spanish word out loud, then check the back for the English meaning.
Say it three times
Go back through the cards above. For each word: the grown-up (or the 🔊 listen button) says it once, then your child repeats it three times, nice and loud. Silly voices are encouraged!
Meteorólogo for a day
Build a pretend TV frame (arms work). Your child delivers the forecast: point out the window, announce el sol or la lluvia, add a feeling — Estoy feliz — because sunny days deserve opinions. Applaud wildly. Rerun tomorrow at breakfast.
Memory game: ¡Encuentra el par!
Find the matching pairs — each Spanish word has its picture hiding somewhere in the grid.
Find the matching pairs!
Escucha y elige — Listen and choose
Press each play button and choose what you heard.
1. Press play. What did you hear?
2. Press play. What did you hear?
3. Press play. What did you hear?
¡La fiesta de repaso!
The grand finale of Kindergarten Spanish: play ONE favorite game from each unit — a color hunt, a blastoff count, Simón dice, the animal opera, the restaurant. Add music and Unit 9 snacks. Family invited. Every game is review; the whole party is assessment; nobody needs to know.
One more flip-through
Scroll back up to the flashcards and let your child flip through them on their own, saying each word before checking the back. No help this time — just see what they remember!
Show what you know
1. “La lluvia” means…
2. Which weather is white and cold?
¡Muy bien!
Weather complete — and with it, the whole Kindergarten year: greetings, colors, numbers, shapes, school, family, body, animals, food, feelings, and weather. Your child speaks real Spanish. ¡Felicidades!
Take it home
The forecast week
Give the Spanish weather report out the window every morning this week. Draw the week’s weather as four little pictures with Spanish labels.
Name: Date:
The graduation poster
Make a poster of EVERYTHING you can say in Spanish — draw one thing from each unit you remember. Bring it to your fiesta. Prepare to be amazed at how much fits.
Note for teachers & parents
Pacing: split this lesson: weather words one day, the fiesta as its own session with family invited. The fiesta deserves the full stage.
Watch for: this is the year’s finish line. The progress check is the party itself — a child playing Simón dice while eating queso they requested in Spanish IS the assessment.