Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual holiday that celebrates the diversity of the many Hispanic communities, the contributions that many Latinx voices have provided us & the richness of the Latinx culture. Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15th and ends on October 15th. Although this celebration is one month long, I like to believe that this event should be a continuing celebration. By incorporating diverse activities into our practices, homes, and classrooms we can bring light to the voices that are often unheard. Make this celebration meaningful for your students, or child, and teach them about the richness that the Latinx culture has to offer. Here are some activities that you can incorporate at home, in school or during speech therapy and best of all, these activities are all FREE! Click on the links below to view the websites.
Hispanic Heritage Month Lesson Plans, Booklists, Interviews with Latinx authors, & more!
Colorin Colorado is a bilingual website for educators and families of English language learners. The organization often provides great resources in English & Spanish for families. Check out these resources that they have to offer!
Education.com provides free printables and worksheets for a variety of themes. The website offers several free downloads for Hispanic Heritage Month. It's free to create an account.
Free Hispanic Heritage Month Resources on TeacherspayTeachers
A variety of teacher authors on Teacherspayteachers have provided great freebies for Hispanic Heritage Month. Check out these free downloads!
Hispanic Heritage Month No Prep Worksheets by Mrs. Cabello Spanish Class
Hispanic Heritage Month Writing Activity in English & Spanish by Bilingual Made Easy
Hispanic Heritage Month Bulletin Board by Beyond Room 218
How to Make Pupusas: Spanish Listening Comprehension Activity by Guanaca at Heart
Engage your Child in Festive & Cultural Crafts for Hispanic Heritage Month!
A fun way to model language is to make crafts at home. You can model all sorts of core vocabulary words such as "more, finished, help, want, need, look, etc." as well as verbs such as "cut, paste, rip, fold, pull, stick, etc. It's also such a great way to learn about a new culture. Here are some websites that provide step by step instructions on how to make these fun crafts for Hispanic Heritage Month.
How to Make Papel Picado by Ohoh Deco
How to Make Your Own Frida Khalo Headband by See Vanessa Craft
Make a Frida Khalo Paper Plate by Box of Ideas
Quetzal Craft for Kids to Celebrate Guatemala's Independence Day by Growing Up Bilingual
Listen to Free Book Read-a-louds on Youtube
Youtube has a variety of read-a-loud book videos which are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month. These are great tools which can be used during speech teletherapy, reading time at home or during class. Check out these books which can be found on YouTube.
Pelé King of Soccer By Monica Brown
Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez
What Can You Do with a Paleta?
Youtube Videos About Hispanic Heritage Month
Once again, Youtube is a great resource to use for Hispanic Heritage Month, especially if your student or child is engaging in remote/distance learning. Here are some educational videos about Hispanic Heritage Month for children that you can watch. These videos are also great for targeting a variety of language goals. While you watch the video, have your child answer WH questions about the images shown (who, what, when, where, why). Another suggestion would be to pause the video and have your child describe the images on the screen. Some examples that you can say are: "What is the athlete doing? Tell me more. Where is she? What do you think will happen next?" Check out these videos!
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Dora
Sesame Street: Latino Festival
Hispanic Heritage Month | Be Inspired | Disney Channel
PBS Learning Media is an educational website for children in grades preschool through high school. The website provides a variety of educational resources, videos, activities and stories by grade level. For example, your child can learn about the history of the Flamenco dance with this fun video. Browse for other Hispanic Heritage Month activities on the website!
Flamenco Dance Studio Field Trip
Learn about Hispanic Heritage Month through Cooking!
Cooking is such a great way to learn how to sequence, learn new vocabulary, work on following directions, learn about a new culture and more! Furthermore, kids always love to be a part of the cooking process and get to eat yummy treats! You can also incorporate cooking during speech therapy via remote learning. You can do this by telling the parent ahead of time what ingredients you will need. Your student and yourself can cook via the computer screen together and all while your student's parent is also helping. Check out these fun recipes that are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month!
Make Tacos! (Have all the ingredients pre-made and have your child add the ingredients to the taco. You can work on following directions and sequencing as opposed to focusing on actually making the ingredients.)
Making Sweet Beverages | Morir Soñando from the Dominican Republic
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Liliana Diaz-Vazquez is a certified licensed bilingual speech language pathologist (SLP), currently practicing in Chicago, Illinois. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in communication disorders (2012) and her master’s degree in speech language pathology at Saint Xavier University (2014). She is a certified member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) since 2014, a member of the Illinois Speech and Hearing Association (ISHA) since 2014 and maintains licensure in the state of Illinois.
Liliana is a first-generation Mexican-American Latina, a small business owner, a full-time school-based SLP, & a bilingual parent, who takes pride in her roots, culture, & heritage language. She loves being able to share her experience as a Latina SLP, and a bilingual mom, as well as her culture & heritage language with the educator, SLP, and parent community.
Liliana Diaz-Vazquez has extensive experience working with the bilingual English and Spanish speaking population & multilingual population. She specializes in augmentative/alternative communication (AAC), bilingual language development and language delays/disorders in bilingual/multilingual children. She has also worked in the early intervention setting for several years where she gained vast experience working with interpreters and bilingual/multilingual families.
Liliana began creating digital bilingual resources and activities in 2014 out of need while working full-time in the school setting as a SLP. Liliana worked with many Spanish-speaking families and quickly realized that there were limited Spanish and bilingual speech therapy resources available for her students and their families. In addition, Liliana quickly became aware that there was a need for education about bilingualism and typical bilingual language development as many of the families she worked with had encountered misinformation about bilingualism. Liliana began developing resources and eventually started Bilingual Speechie LLC with the mission to provide education to SLPs and families about bilingualism, as well as provide inclusive and diverse materials for speech therapy in order to help bilingual families and SLPs gain access to appropriate bilingual materials for children with communication disorders.
Today Liliana currently works full-time in the Chicago public school setting as a lead bilingual SLP where she consults and collaborates with SLPs daily to help them understand how to assess and provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services for bilingual and/or multilingual students. She also runs her small business, Bilingual Speechie LLC, and is on a mission to expand and grow her business so that all SLPs, educators, and families can have access to inclusive, diverse, and bilingual resources in a variety of languages for speech therapy.
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