Agua, Queso, Huevo, Galleta
Water, Cheese, Egg, Cookie
📐 Standards alignment
ACTFL World-Readiness: Communication (interpersonal, interpretive, presentational) · Cultures (trying a breakfast food from a Spanish-speaking country) · Comparisons (Spanish vs. English)
Can-Do targets (NCSSFL-ACTFL, Novice Low):
- I can name eight foods and drinks in Spanish.
- I can ask for more, politely.
- I can order pretend food like at a restaurant.
Learning objectives
- Name four more foods in Spanish
- Use más, por favor (more, please) — the mightiest phrase in kindergarten
- Order a pretend meal combining all eight foods
Materials
Play food or the real thing. Paper plates for the restaurant finale.
Prior knowledge
Lesson 1 foods and the snack bar routine.
Key vocabulary
el agua · el queso · el huevo · la galleta
The magic word upgrade
Your child knows por favor. Today it gets an upgrade: más, por favor — MORE, please. Warning: once learned at cookie time, never forgotten.
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!
Restaurante La Cocina
Open a pretend restaurant. Your child orders from all eight food words; you serve tiny portions (strategically) so they must deploy más, por favor. Then swap — you order, they serve, and you say gracias so warmly they glow.
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?
Waiter races
Balance a (plastic!) plate with play food across the room without dropping it, announcing the order on arrival: ¡El huevo y el queso! Dropped food must be re-ordered in Spanish. Speed rounds optional.
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 huevo” is…
2. How do you ask for MORE cookies?
¡Muy bien!
Eight foods and the phrase your child will use forever: más, por favor. The pretend restaurant proved it: they can order, serve, thank, and ask for seconds — all in Spanish.
Take it home
Restaurant night
Run a five-minute pretend restaurant at home. Take a family member’s order in Spanish, serve it, and make them say gracias. Draw your restaurant and give it a name!
Name: Date:
The más experiment
At dessert, ask: ¿Más, por favor? in your sweetest Spanish. Report the results scientifically: did it work? Draw the evidence.
Note for teachers & parents
Pacing: the restaurant role-play is the unit’s summative assessment in disguise — every unit word plus Unit 1 politeness shows up in it.
Watch for: agua uses el (el agua) even though it is feminine — do NOT explain this to five-year-olds. Just model it; the ear learns first.