About this activity
The fourteen home vocabulary words — cocina, cama, mesa, ventana, cuchara, puerta, silla, baño, sala, plato, vaso, refrigerador, sofá, almohada — as a spelling task. Derived from the flashcard deck. Spanish spelling follows the sound closely, so a child who can segment the syllables can spell most of these.
How to use it in a session
Clap the syllables and build in chunks. Me-sa and ca-ma are two chunks; re-fri-ge-ra-dor is five and is the hardest word in the set by a distance. Baño needs the ñ, silla needs the ll, and cocina spells the /s/ sound with a c — three spelling patterns that cannot be worked out from the sound and are worth naming.
What to listen for
Watch the ll in silla and the ñ in baño, which are letters rather than combinations and need to be recognised as such. Notice cocina, where the c before an i makes an /s/ sound — the same rule as in cereza, and a genuinely useful pattern once a student sees it twice.
Carrying it home
Ask a child to spell mesa or cama aloud. Two syllables and four letters is the right size, and both objects are within sight in most homes — which means the word, the object and the letters all arrive in the same moment.
Questions
- How does this differ from the flashcards?
- Same fourteen words, built from letters. It exercises the spellings — ll, ñ, and c before i — that reading does not force a decision about.
- Do I need an account?
- No, it plays free with no login.
- Why does 'cocina' have a c that sounds like s?
- Because c before e and i makes that sound in Spanish. It is a reliable rule, the same one operating in cereza and cinco.