Corazón, Luna, Diamante, Óvalo
Heart, Moon, Diamond, Oval
📐 Standards alignment
ACTFL World-Readiness: Communication (interpersonal, interpretive, presentational) · Cultures (hearts and moons in Latin American folk art) · Comparisons (Spanish vs. English)
Can-Do targets (NCSSFL-ACTFL, Novice Low):
- I can name eight shapes in Spanish.
- I can say a shape and its color together.
- I can make a card using Spanish shape words.
Learning objectives
- Recognize and repeat four more shape words
- Combine shapes with colors: un corazón rojo
- Sort mixed shapes into groups by name
Materials
Paper shapes cut from colored paper (or draw and color them together as the warm-up).
Prior knowledge
Lesson 1 shapes plus Unit 2 colors.
Key vocabulary
el corazón · la luna · el diamante · el óvalo
Shape review remix
Quick air-draw review of yesterday’s four. Then tease today’s stars: a shape for love, a shape in the night sky, a shape on playing cards, and the shape of an egg.
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!
Shape and color together
Now combine! Hold up colored paper shapes and model: un corazón rojo… una luna amarilla. Your child picks a shape, you ask ¿Qué es? — accept the shape alone, celebrate shape + color combos like the small victories they are.
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?
Shape hopscotch
Draw (chalk outside, or paper on the floor) a path of big shapes. To cross the room, your child hops shape to shape saying each name in Spanish. Miss a name? The floor is lava — back to the start, giggling.
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. “El corazón” means…
2. Which shape is “el óvalo”?
¡Muy bien!
Eight shapes total now, and something bigger: your child combined two ideas — un corazón rojo — which is the first step toward building real Spanish sentences.
Take it home
The shape card
Make a card for someone you love, decorated with corazones, estrellas, and lunas in your favorite colors. Label at least three shapes in Spanish inside.
Name: Date:
Night sky picture
Draw the night sky: la luna, las estrellas, and anything else up there. How many estrellas? Count them in Spanish.
Note for teachers & parents
Pacing: shape + color combos can run long — it is fine to keep combos in Spanish shape + English color at first (“un corazón… red!”) and model back the full Spanish.
Watch for: gender endings (rojo/roja) are NOT a kindergarten battle. Model correct forms, accept everything, correct nothing.