🌎 Action Words at the Playground
Palabras de acción en el parque
🌎 Social Studies
Real-Life Mode
SL.K.6L.K.5WL.K.1
Objective: Child connects Spanish action verbs to their own body movements while playing on playground equipment.
🧺 Materials
- the playground equipment
- your child's energy
📋 Instructions (parent)
- As your child runs to the playground, call out the action in Spanish: ¡corre! (run).
- When they climb the ladder, say ¡sube! and when they slide down say ¡baja!
- At the swings, push gently and say columpiarse (to swing) on each push.
- Ask your child to choose an action and shout the Spanish word before they do it.
- Before leaving, have them tell you their favorite action word of the day.
➕ Extension ideas
- Play Simón dice (Simon Says) using the Spanish action words at home.
- Draw a picture of your favorite playground action and label it in Spanish.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Mira cómo corres! En español decimos correr. Ahora vamos al tobogán: cuando subes decimos sube, y cuando bajas decimos baja. ¿Listo? ¡Sube y baja!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Quieres correr o saltar?
- ¿Subes o bajas por el tobogán?
- ¿Cuál es tu juego favorito del parque?
- ¿Cómo se dice swing en español?
- ¿Qué hace tu cuerpo cuando te columpias?
🔑 Vocabulary
- el parque — the park
- correr — to run
- saltar — to jump
- subir — to go up
- bajar — to go down
- el tobogán — the slide
- columpiarse — to swing
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Pick just two verbs, correr and saltar, and call them out as your child plays.
🚗 Car version
Sing a made-up song listing corre, salta, sube, baja on the way to the park.
😴 No-energy version
Sit on a bench and narrate your child's movements in Spanish without joining in.
🎯 California standards covered
| SL.K.6 | Speaking Clearly “I can speak clearly so others can understand my ideas.” |
| L.K.5 | Exploring Word Relationships “I can sort words into groups and tell how words go together.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |