Using the Spanish Visual Schedule Board to Supplement Our Spanish Lessons

One of the first things we did when we arrived in Argentina was find a Spanish tutor. My husband is fluent in Spanish, which is why we're here. He's been speaking Spanish to our daughter since she was born and she has taken some Spanish in school. I took five years of Spanish in high school, which hasn't done a lot for me in being comfortable speaking Spanish, not to mention that Argentine Spanish is much different than the more Mexican based Spanish we all know. When we got here, we got a Spanish tutor to help us out.

One of the things we've been working on with our Spanish tutor is daily routines and the verbiage that goes with it. We already know Jackie thrives with routines so we knew learning those routines in Spanish would be really helpful. When we started talking about routines, I knew the best way to help her would be to have a visual for her. I started taking images our tutor gave me like in a worksheet to help create a visual schedule board for her. Then I realized, duh, I have a visual schedule board! Not only do I have a visual schedule board, I have it already in Spanish. So I took the Spanish visual schedule board, tweaked it a little bit so we're using some Argentine specific phrases and words and printed it out. Jackie and I put it on the wall and then our Spanish tutor came over, corrected a few things and made some tweaks to make it Argentine specific. We've been able to use it daily! I'm going to show you how we did that and how you can do it too with the Spanish visual schedule board download.

Using the Spanish Visual Schedule Board to Supplement Our Spanish Lessons | Putting it Together

I'm using the child version in Spanish. I went through and I got rid of all of the activities we wouldn't be doing like going to grandparents houses, riding a bike or a scooter, going to therapy, doctor or the dentist. We won't be doing any of those things while we're here so I didn't want it crowding the schedule board. I had to double check a few things to make sure they were Argentine specific and I used specific names for things so it was applicable for where we are. I then was able to print everything out.

Next, I cut everything out. The activities we have for while we are here are things like swimming, dancing, going to playgrounds, getting tutored, as well as daily routines like getting dressed, reading, all of the meals, and the nighttime routine staples. J likes to get ice cream almost every day so that's on our list and also included church, going to restaurants, going to the store, running errands, and then other activities we do together. I'm not laminating these, like I would at home, so they're not going to last as long, unfortunately.

I used masking tape in loops on the back of each square so we could stick them to the wall. Once everything was prepped, J and I put everything on the wall, focusing on what we were going to do that day. I really wanted her to participate in this and put everything on the wall so she knew she was an active participant in our day. We stuck up all of the other squares we weren't using that day next to the chart so she can move stuff around and decide what she wants to use every day based on the options we have.

The final schedule turned out great.  Our Spanish tutor added to some notes to help us and I'm so grateful she did because I want it to be as accurate as possible. This has been super helpful for us, even if I am missing it being laminated. My download is available for you to make your own English or Spanish visual schedule board in the shop.