Spanish Summer Words for Preschoolers

Cannonball! Splash! The hottest season of the year has arrived, bursting with bright sunshine, colorful floaties for the pool, and plentiful goodies for the grill. The kids are on vacation and family activity planning is in full force. El verano (summer) is here! Along with all the other fun and educational activities you may have planned, dedicate some special time to explore summer words in Spanish. With our list of fun words, creative hands-on activities, and extended lessons on verbs, you and your child can delight in learning and playing at the same time. ¡Disfrutemos el verano!

Spanish Summer Words

This super fun summer theme allows you to expand on nouns and adjectives (including colors and opposites) that you’ve already covered while presenting interactive grammar lessons about conjugating verbs. In this guide, we will provide a focused lesson on “-ar” verbs and how to use them with different pronouns. Here’s our list of happy, playful summer words, along with a pronunciation guide:

Vocabulary Lessons

Storytime

Stories help to actively engage your child’s mind as they listen to details that inspire their imagination. By simply reading the story or choosing to implement a particular reading strategy, you are giving your child a chance to connect new words to images and actions from the story. Check out our Spanish Summer Story that uses the vocabulary in this guide!

Flashcards

Flashcards are the simplest way to teach new Spanish summer words. Enjoy our exclusive Homeschool Spanish Academy Summer Theme Flashcards as a must-have learning tool! Be sure to laminate them for durability. See what else you can do with flashcards.

For more activity ideas, check out our winter and spring words blog posts!

Extended Lesson: “-ar” Verbs

If you would like to extend this lesson to include an introduction to verbs or expand from our Spanish spring words blog post, you can teach -ar verbs!

(If you would like a refresher on pronouns, be sure to check out our post on pronouns with all the details.)

Use this information to teach yourself or refresh your memory on the grammar so you can use the conjugations frequently with your preschooler. They will learn best by hearing you use the verbs in a meaningful way, instead of trying to teach them explicitly to use the verbs with different pronouns. Conjugate verbs ending in -ar as follows, using the verb “nadar” as an example:

Other -ar verbs to explore:

llegar (to arrive/reach)

pasar (to spend time)

hablar (to speak)

trabajar (to work)

Verbs in Action

Here are a few phrases that you might like to use to discuss the nouns in the list and what they do.  Feel free to switch out the words and verbs of choice for your lessons:

Words to know: en (in), con (with), para (for), ir (to go)

Nosotros nadamos en la piscina. – We swim in the pool.

Yo viajo con mi familia. – I travel with my family.

Tú disfrutas el verano. – You enjoy summer.

Me gusta juntar conchas. – I like to gather seashells.

Ustedes celebran el día de independencia. – You (all) celebrate Independence Day.

Ellos juegan* con los castillos de arena. – They play with sandcastles.

Yo juego* deportes. – I play sports.

Nosotros juntamos los trajes de bano para ir a la playa. – We gather swimsuits to go to the beach.

*Jugar is conjugated irregularly where the “ju” (hoo) changes to “jue” (hway) for all pronouns except nosotros/nosotras. Examples: Yo juego, nosotros jugamos

Sweet Summer

We hope you enjoy your summer vacation learning new words with your little one! As always, if you would like your child to practice their fun summer vocabulary with an enthusiastic native Spanish speaker, sign up for a free online class. They are sure to be speaking Spanish after the first class!

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Lover of words and a foreign language fanatic, I'm fluent in French and Spanish, with BA degrees in Linguistics, French, and Psychology, plus a TEFL certificate and 10+ years of teaching experience to boot. I blissfully share Spanish-learning tips, best-idea-ever travel advice, and at-a-glance cultural guides. When you can't find me writing spiritedly from my home office in Antigua, Guatemala, I'm probably outside playing games and exploring nature with my two bilingual kids.

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