Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers – Made Easy!

My Long Journey to Learn How to Teach Preschool Spanish

¡Hola!
My name is Ana Lomba and I am originally from Madrid, Spain.

I have been teaching preschool Spanish to young children since 1999 when I founded my first Spanish preschool immersion program in Princeton, New Jersey.

Although I am a highly educated teacher and native Spanish speaker, my first steps in teaching Spanish to young kids was a total failure! I’ll tell you why in a moment…

Today I am a Parents’ Choice Award-winning author of several books and resources in Spanish and French for young children. I lead workshops nationally for teachers and for parents, and help several language organizations to help promote early language education in the USA.

You can probably tell – I love teaching Spanish preschool. It is so rewarding to see the thrill young children get from learning Spanish!

And I’m passionate about helping other teachers, like you, to get the most out of it too.

Learning Spanish is Easy for Preschoolers!

Preschool is the perfect age to learn language. Young children find it easy to learn languages.

It’s what young kids do naturally. Their brains are wired to do it.

And, with the right kind of help, they LOVE it too!

But Teaching Spanish to Preschoolers is HARD!

Here’s the problem. Most of us who really want to teach Spanish preschool simply don’t have the education and resources we need to help those kids learn to their full potential!

I learned this the hard way…

My first day teaching Spanish to young children was a catastrophe!

My Painful Experience

It should have been easy for me, right? After all…

• I’m a native Spanish speaker
• I had taught Spanish to undergraduates at Binghamton University and at Princeton University for seven years.
• I had advanced degrees in Spanish and Latin American literature.
• I had also taught Spanish in a private Princeton middle school for a year.
• And, I was the mother of two young bilingual kids (three now)!

How Wrong I Was!

My first class was a parent-child group. I had spent two months organizing it, using all my skills, and it was a complete failure.

After a few weeks, I realized I had to abandon that direction, and go back to the drawing board.

I had to admit, my skills were not enough. I knew how to teach older students, but I had no idea how to teach preschool Spanish.

Where Could I Find Out What I Needed?

I set out to learn what I was missing. Surely someone must know the right way to teach Spanish to younger kids!

• I visited local preschools (none of which offered Spanish at that time).
• I subscribed to foreign language and early childhood organizations.
• I attended conferences.
• I participated in language teachers Internet groups.
• And bought tons of resources from catalogs and the Internet.

Many of the things I invested in turned out to be poor translations of American games and other activities – that just didn’t make any sense in Spanish!

Oftentimes, the rhymes didn’t work, these books didn’t bother to change expressions for Spanish equivalents, or even care to use proper spelling and grammar! (This is a problem that continues today.)

My basement is still full of this junk!

Money was not the only thing I wasted. This process also took years of my life.

I don’t want any other teacher to have to go through the same experience.

Creating a New Spanish Program – Just For Preschoolers

I finally realized that I had to start from scratch and develop my own program and my own materials.

You see, languages in this country have been traditionally taught in high school and college. We have a choice of teaching methodologies and text manuals to teach Spanish to older students.

But practically nothing for teaching Spanish effectively to young children.

Although some elements of second-language teaching techniques that work for older students could be used to teach young children, most were unsuitable.

I was at a loss. If I was going to make this work long-term, ensure the preschool kids I was teaching loved learning Spanish, and see the rewards, I needed to start over.

That’s what led me to create my own complete method. I rolled up my sleeves and started to apply what I knew about language development in early childhood with elements from foreign language teaching methods for older students.

Teaching Spanish With Stories, Songs, and Games

As you know, young children have powerful imaginations. They love stories, plays, songs…

And the best way to teach should always match the way people learn. So my teaching style is theatrical, and based on the way young children learn, which is highly active and sensory..

I was fortunate to know plenty of traditional Spanish games and songs for kids from my own childhood in Spain. I realized I could use some of those with preschool students.

I also created many games and songs from scratch that would target the specific needs of preschool children learning Spanish as a second language.

I also adapted traditional stories and created new ones to be used as skits in my storytelling sessions. I wrote many songs and rhymes to be used with the stories as well.

Putting it all Together – “Ana Lomba’s Easy Immersion^® Program”

I could use a song here or a story there, but I needed to think how I was going to integrate all the elements in a comprehensive, long-term preschool Spanish program.

I needed a structure.

Creating this structure took years of trial and error, testing theories in my Spanish preschool classes, keeping what worked, and adapting the materials from everything I learned.

I was learning just as much as my young students!

The result is my Spanish for Preschoolers guide – a complete handbook to the methods for teaching Spanish to young kids. It will let you quickly and easily build your own curriculum to suit your preschoolers.

How You Can Avoid Making the Same Mistakes I Did

I have done the hard work, so you don’t have to.

I have sorted through the latest information and research to find you the most relevant and useful for early childhood Spanish teachers. My Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide includes all this advice plus dozens of practical tips and sample activities, lesson plans.

The Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide gives you a comprehensive view of my Spanish immersion program – which you can use to teach for kids right through from age 1 to 8.

In it, l will guide you through the latest theories in language education (including my Easy Immersion^® methodology). You will:

• Learn how to effortlessly immerse your students in Spanish. (Teaching lists of colors, numbers and days of the week in Spanish is not teaching a language!)
• With the techniques I’ll show you, your students will be on their way to acquiring a complete language from day one.
• Discover the different types of activities that young kids enjoy doing most, so they’ll love being in class, absorb information quickly, and learn while having fun.
• Find out how to create, use and expand activities for your preschool Spanish lesson plans. Specifically I’ll show you…
  • Tips to create activities that will help you move quickly toward meaningful, everyday communication. You don’t need to be a language expert to learn these techniques!
  • Practical strategies to integrate literacy into your curriculum. Building strong reading – and writing – skills in Spanish is an important success factor on the way to being truly bilingual.
  • How to plan your own thematic units, so that you never again have to worry about what you will do tomorrow in class.

Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide also includes:

• Step by step instructions to my award-winning preschool Spanish lessons and materials.
• A sample 60-minute lesson plan from one of my thematic units.
• A template you can use to start creating your own units.

Download the #1 Spanish Preschool E-Guide Now!

Because this product is downloadable you can, start reading it within five minutes of purchase, from the comfort of your own home, right from your computer or tablet.

I estimate that I have spent over $20,000 in self-education (workshops, books, etc), and teaching materials during the years I’ve been teaching. But the Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide will cost you only $37.97!

The Only Resource You Really Need – Guaranteed!

I happily offer you a 3 month guarantee. If you are not entirely satisfied that the Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide gives you the know-how, game-changing information, I’ll send you every penny of your money back straight away!

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Click the PayPal button below to get your own copy of the hands-on, information-crammed Spanish for Preschoolers E-Guide, and receive today the tools you need to create an exciting preschool Spanish curriculum!

Sincerely,

Ana Lomba
Ana Lomba Early Languages LLC

p.s. Please don’t go through the same process I did to find a program that works. Try my guide today, and remember, if it’s not exactly what you need, I’ll refund you.