Inside: Are you looking for the best Spanish jokes for Spanish class jaja jueves? Learn how to use jaja jueves class routine, with funny jokes in Spanish class, to increase student engagement. Fun Spanish jokes for Spanish learners.
Author – Allison Wienhold
Published – March 21, 2022, & most recently updated on April 10, 2025.
What is Jaja jueves?
Many years ago, I started using themed Para Empezar class starters as a weekly class routine. As a department of 1, I was always scrambling to transition between 4+ levels of Spanish class during the four-minute passing time. Having a specifically themed class opener that I used for every class and every level was sanity-saving. These weekly themed routines were typically the following:
- Monday – Weekend Chat
- Tuesday – martes del mapa (Spanish-speaking countries) /martes del meme (or FVR for upper levels)
- Wednesday – Música miércoles
- Thursday – Jaja jueves! funny Spanish jokes (or FVR for upper levels)
- Friday – Baile viernes!
Usually, in upper levels, we tried to start class with free reading on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I needed a class starter for my early novice Spanish 1 & Exploratory Middle School Spanish. This is where jokes in Spanish jaja jueves came from. A good joke is also great for brain breaks or a routine class starter for some ja ja ja.
Why Use Jokes in Spanish Class?
Humor is a positive and fun way to start any class. It builds classroom community and supports social-emotional learning during your Spanish lessons. A joke or meme can be a conversation starter or a check-in to see how students are doing. Funny Spanish Jokes and memes are a way to connect with students and get to know them better. A good laugh is often the best medicine.
Seeing how students smile or groan at silly Spanish dad jokes, gives you a better window to understand their personality. Jokes are especially helpful to have projected as students enter a virtual or online class to help lighten the mood.
Using funny jokes in Spanish helps expose students to authentic culture. Jokes bring up regional variations and expose students to new vocabulary in context. It can be a bilingual joke, spanglish jokes, pepito jokes, corny jokes, bad dad jokes, jaimito jokes, Mexican jokes, or a simple pun in the Spanish language.
Additionally, deeper thinking is involved regarding puns and clever wordplay using a new language. English speakers can learn a double meaning of an english word and a Spanish word. Native Spanish speakers can help their Spanish skills and language skills. Native speakers may catch clever play of different words.
Using jokes and memes with pictures helps support the comprehension of learners of all ages. Easy Spanish jokes are a positive way to mix up your Spanish courses and a powerful tool to learn new words.
How to Use Funny Jokes in Spanish Class
Step #1 – Find the Best Spanish Jokes
As a Spanish teacher, I started collecting jokes in Spanish that I found on a Pinterest Board. I used to scramble each Thursday morning to find Spanish memes or great joke in Spanish to use. Then I started putting them all together in a jaja jueves editable Google slide show, along with questions to discuss.
Each slide has an appropriate image with a fun pun or joke in Spanish & 3 questions to complete in Spanish. So if you want to skip step 1, I have multiple sets of slides of ready-to-go jaja jueves jokes. Here are the three most popular.
- Jaja jueves Bundle – every set of jokes altogether, enough for 1 every day of the year! All of my weekly funny bell ringers for Spanish learning.
- NEW Middle School Jaja jueves Spanish Jokes – 36 jokes of super novice Spanish jokes for a full year of Middle School Spanish, or novice High School Spanish 1. You can get the year of middle school jokes on TPT as well.
- NEW jaja jueves 2025 – The newest set is a mix of funny Spanish puns, funny dad jokes & longer more intermediate-level jokes in Spanish. You can also get the same jaja jueves 2025 on my website
More Jaja Jueves Spanish Bell Ringer Sets
- jaja jueves 2024 – A mix of bilingual jokes, dad jokes & longer more intermediate-level jokes with Spanish humor. You can also get the same jaja jueves 24 on my website
- Jaja jueves 2023 – clean, comprehensible silly Spanish jokes, a playful way to start class
- Jaja jueves 22 – new, clean joke set for elementary-conservative high school for classroom management at the start of class
- 1 year of jaja jueves – enough memes for every Thursday of the year, the most popular version
Step #2 – Project a Joke in Spanish
There are so many ways you can use joke slides in Spanish class! Here are just a few ways to use them.
- There are so many ways you can use joke slides in Spanish class! Here are just a few ways to use them.
- Project one joke slide each Thursday (or any day) as students enter in-person or virtual class.
- Insert one slide into a Google Forms daily check-in for online classes.
- Project one joke slide in the middle of class as a brain break.
- Project one joke slide as students leave class as an exit ticket.
Step #3 – Discuss the funny joke in Spanish
In my Spanish joke slideshows, each slide has an image with a joke in Spanish. Plus there are usually three questions to complete in Spanish. These questions are typically the following (but in Spanish)
- Explain what the joke means (this could be English translations)
- Is the joke/meme funny?
- A question related to the content of the joke
Depending on how you do your class starters, maybe students write the answers to these questions down. Or maybe, your students digitally answer these questions right in their daily slides. When I was Deskless we just discussed the questions as a class. So, no there was no grade involved and it was just a part of class participation and Interpersonal Communication Skills.
Ways to Mix Up Jaja jueves
As with any routine, if you keep it the same week after week, it can get a little stale. Here are a few ways to mix up your weekly jokes.
- Have a student lead the discussion of the joke in Spanish.
- Have partners or small groups discuss the joke and then come together to all discuss.
- Students vote if they think the joke is funny by moving to different sides of the room.
- Assign a few jokes or the whole slideshow as interpretive reading practice or a sub-plan.
- Have students make their memes and slides in Spanish as an extension. You could use the student-created submissions in later weeks.
- Have students make or find jokes in different languages.
Try Jaja jueves!
If you are looking for a way to add humor to your classes and connect to build a positive classroom community while staying in Spanish, using Spanish jokes is for you. Just find jokes, project them, and discuss them in Spanish. Here are resources to save you time!
- Jaja jueves Bundle – every set of jokes all together, enough for 1 every day of the year!
This new joke set my most squeaky clean joke set for elementary-conservative high school. All below are jokes with graphics like the ones in this blog post.
- NEW Middle School Jaja jueves Spanish Jokes is a mix of 36 of the most novice Spanish jokes from the 3 jaja jueves resources above. You can get it as a part of the new Bell Ringers for a year of Middle School
These joke sets are mostly memes/jokes in Spanish for junior high & high school
- 1 year of jaja jueves – enough memes for every Thursday of the year, the most popular version
- Jaja jueves 2 – 22 memes/jokes in Spanish
- Jaja jueves 21 – 22 more memes/jokes in Spanish
These joke sets are specifically focused on the Super 7 & Sweet 16 verbs. These are great if you want more repetitions of these specific verbs (here is more info about using these High Frequency Verbs)
- Memes using the Super 7 (present, imperfect & preterite)
- Memes using the Sweet 16 verbs (present)
Now go try out some Spanish jokes for class to increase student engagement. If you use jaja jueves class routine, with funny jokes in Spanish class, let me know!
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