Teaching the Parts of the House in Spanish

I recently started a unit on teaching the parts of the house for my Pre- K students. I tried to focus on the few words that would be important for them in every day use. I thought of words for outside the house and inside the house. Here are a few ideas for teaching some parts of the house. Take these lessons and apply them towards any vocabulary words related to the home.

Chanting and Doing
The words 'puerta' and 'ventana' are probably the most important words to learn related to the outside of the house. The great thing about the pair of words is that they both can be accompanied by the phrases "abre la" and "cierre la." I had the students take turns closing and opening the door in the classroom, while the rest of their classmates would chant and clap 'abre la puerta' or 'cierre la puerta.'

Slide Show of Crazy Houses
My students love getting a chance to come to the board and show off what they know. I created a slide show of different houses from the outside. Then I had students come up to the wall and identify the 'puerta' and the 'ventana' using a fly swatter.  The rest of the class stayed engaged by asking the question 'donde esta la puerta' 'donde esta la ventana' until the student was able to slap it. Some of the pictures of larger buildings were nice because instead of identifying the window we were able to count the windows in Spanish. You could also identify the windows by color. Both are a nice review of previous vocabulary. You can access that slide show by clicking here.

Worksheets
It is usually difficult for me to find worksheets that are a good match for my classroom. I really hate worksheets that do not reinforces skills and vocabulary taught in my lessons. I found a really great website called Monarca Language that is a perfect compliment to what I do in my classroom for students in Pre K- K. They have multiple worksheets for different unit themes. They differentiate the worksheets for different ages. Moms of toddlers out there will like that they have worksheets designed for 2 year olds. Here is one of several worksheets I used in this unit. Students had to cut out furniture and place it in the correct room. My only adjustment was to add dotted line for students to follow as they cut.

Games
I mentioned in a previous post how much I enjoyed the game "pasa la bola" that I found on Fun for Spanish Teacher. I created a new application for this game (it works so well with almost any vocabulary.) I created a mystery folder where I had pictures of the different vocabulary words we were working on (parts of the house.) I then played the game as described in the link above. When the ball landed on a person, they would get a chance to go to the mystery folder and try to identify the picture shown. The kids really loved this game!