March in Spanish class

Inside: March in Spanish class ideas. March Music Madness, a no-prep activity for before and after Spring Break, resources to teach the Spanish festival, Las Fallas, and more ways to add culture to class this March.

Can you believe it is already almost March!? With state testing, breaks, and Prom on the horizon, this is when it starts to get crazy at the high school level. Here are some of my favorite ideas to inject fun, culture, and community into March in Spanish class.

March in Spanish Class

March Music Madness

This is the perfect time to plan for your March Music Madness bracket. See this post for all of the information on how I implemented it and the previous brackets. + See Mania Musical March Music Bracket FAQ.

I highly suggest Brand New Mania Musical 2024 which includes all current music. Or if you want to plan and have more options, this Growing Music Bracket Bundle has resources for eight separate high school brackets and gets a new bracket each spring when I add a new one. Below is our bulletin board from a few years ago where we will track who moves on.

If you have younger students or a more conservative school, I suggest the Brand New YOUNGER Mania Musical 2024. Or get all young music brackets together here in this Young Music Bracket Bundle

Mania Musical 2022 - Spanish class March Music Bracket

Las Fallas

For the last few years, I have loved teaching about a fun festival in Spain March 15-19, Las Fallas. I created this blog post brainstorming the unit years ago while teaching an elective culture and civilization class. But have used it each year since in Spanish 1 or 2 as a fun way to fill a short week around Spring Break.

Students are obsessed with fire and anything that involves it. Depending on how much time you have, Las Fallas could be a few-day unit or just a one-day cultural exploration during March in Spanish class.

**Update I fully upgraded the Las Fallas Unit to all digital so I can put everything on Google Classroom for a mini-unit for my Spanish 1. Get the ready-to-go unit here on TPT. or here in my website shop.

Las Fallas - Mini unit for Spanish class - Mis Clases Locas

Womens History Month

A few years ago I combined Mania Musical & Women’s History Month & made an all-female Spanish music bracket! Here you can get Mania musical de mujeres.

My favorite way to celebrate Women’s History Month is to learn about Selena. Read this blog post all about Selena for ideas. I have a movie guide for Selena in my website store. Or you can also get the Selena Movie Guide on TPT.

Spring Break

While for years I get robbed of a Spring Break and instead just had a long weekend for Easter, I am always looking for a ready-to-go activity for the day we get back.

Digital Spring Break Chat Slides

These slides are great for hybrid or distance learning as they are both editable Google Slideshows. Each set has 15 class starter slides & 15 Spring Break Chat Discussion Slides.

The first 15 Weekend Chat class starter activity slides would be great to post as the first activity before or after the break. They are separated into reading, speaking & writing practice & could fill up a whole class period.

The second 15 in each set are general questions to click through and discuss or have students write down or discuss answers. You could pick a few to focus on and discuss before or after the break. For distance learning, you could go through the slides together or maybe have students answer the questions using Flipgrid and respond to each other, or have students go through them in small groups in breakout rooms.

Get the Spring Break Slides from my website store

Pre Spring Break Discussion Slides

Post Spring Break Discussion Slides

IN-PERSON – Find Someone Who

Print them out before leaving, do nothing related to school over break, and show up and just talk about what we did when you return. To get a more detailed idea of how I use this activity after a break, check out this post. (plus you can use the TPT Digital version to do these paperless or distance as well).

Get the Spring Break Find Someone Who Chats in my website store

Find Someone Who – Before Spring Break (future)

Pre Spring Break Find Someone Who Spanish Class

Find Someone Who – After Spring Break (past)

Post Spring Break Find Someone Who Spanish Class

Spring Bundle – for March in Spanish class

If you want everything above get the Spring Bundle on TPT.

Or get the Spring Bundle in my website store.

Other Ideas for March in Spanish class

While I am not sure how much more I can fit in March, here are a few more ideas.

Carnaval

St. Patrick’s Day

While not immediately culturally connected to the Spanish-speaking world, in my mom’s 100% Irish family, it is one of the most important days of the year. If you have ways of how you could connect it, let me know!

Semana Santa Resources

When I taught at a Catholic school, the holy week was a perfect way to combine the culture of the Spanish-speaking world, and religion. I collected resources to use in this post, for what will be the last week in March this year.

Also coming up in April

Solar Eclipse – April 8th, 2024

Earth Day

What did I forget? What would you add?

March in Spanish Class blog shared by Mis Clases Locas

originally posted 2.26.18 – most recently updated 2.22.24

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Allison Wienhold

Allison Wienhold of Mis Clases Locas has a decade of experience as a #deptof1 secondary Spanish teacher in Iowa. She enjoys creating curricula using novels, films, and music. Allison provides professional development to World Language teachers, including being the keynote speaker at MALT and Comprehensible Iowa, and workshop presenter at dozens of state & regional organizations, school districts, AEAs, and virtual conferences.