Spanish Maternity Leave Sub Plans, 6 Weeks, A1 Review, Spanish 1, Any Grade, 30 Days of No Prep Sub Plans for Spanish Class, 384 Pages

Six weeks of Spanish class, planned and printed before you leave. I made these Spanish sub plans as maternity leave sub plans and long term sub plans for Spanish 1: six complete binders for level A1, 30 days of review with one set a day for every class, in middle school or high school. Week 1 reviews greetings, numbers and time, weather, family, school routines and food. Week 2 covers home, town and directions, clothes and shopping, sports and weekend plans, and health. Week 3 brings animals, nature, travel, holidays and jobs, and Week 4 countries and cities, chores, music and movies, phones and free time, and friends. Week 5 goes to the supermarket, school clubs, the neighborhood, weather around the world and street food, and Week 6 to a day in a city, art and museums, recycling and food from different countries, with a big final review on the last day. Every day has a Spanish worksheet set with word banks, a calm vocabulary block, a team task, an optional Spanish review game and answer keys. Every instruction is in English, so the sub needs no Spanish. No tech needed. No prep: print and go. I see the six weeks as a strong start for the first weeks of a maternity leave, and they work just as well for a medical leave, a family leave or any absence of about six weeks. I built the 30 sets to review the complete A1 grammar of Spanish 1, and Week 6 ends with a big final review game with a square for every A1 grammar point, so the six weeks also make perfect test prep for an A1 exam or a Spanish 1 final.

Perfect For

• The first six weeks of a maternity leave, so your Spanish 1 classes start the leave with a plan
• Six weeks out: surgery or medical leave, a family leave, a long illness
• A long-term sub who does not know your subject or your class
• Spanish teachers with several classes at the same level: one set covers every class that day
• A vacancy or a late hire, when the class needs six weeks of solid review
• Review weeks before a test or after a break, when nothing new should be taught
• Your sub tub or emergency sub folder, ready before you need it

How It Works

1. Print the six binders and leave them on your desk. Week 1 covers days 1 to 5, Week 2 days 6 to 10, Week 3 days 11 to 15, Week 4 days 16 to 20, Week 5 days 21 to 25 and Week 6 days 26 to 30. Each binder has its own week plan on page 4, already filled in with page numbers and minutes for every set.
2. Monday’s set runs in every period you teach on Monday, Tuesday’s set on Tuesday, and so on. The calm vocabulary block fits any gap, the team task fills a block period, and the game is optional fun for the last 15 minutes.
3. Every set stands alone, so each plan is only a sample order: swap sets between days, or use one with another class when it fits. Each set opens with a line that says what it reviews, so you can match it to what your class has covered.
4. Instructions are in English and every answer is in the key, so the sub needs no Spanish.
5. Prefer your own order? Each binder includes a blank weekly schedule.

What’s Inside: 384 Pages, Six Binders

• Week 1 binder, 63 pages: a note to the substitute, the week plan filled in Monday to Friday with page numbers, a blank weekly schedule, class list and dismissal, a "how it went" sheet and a Monday opener (Meet Your Sub)
• Week 1 review sets: Greetings, Numbers and Time (ser and llamarse, question words, tú and usted, numbers 0 to 100, clock times); Calendar, Weather and Free Time (gustar and encantar, weather with hace, está and hay, dates and seasons); Family and Descriptions (ser and estar, adjective agreement, possessives, tener for age); School and Daily Routine (regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs, reflexive verbs, frequency words); Food and Ordering (querer, preferir and pedir, quisiera, menu prices)
• Week 1 team tasks: First Bus to Last Bus; The Free Saturday; The Paper Tower; The School Paper Front Page; Cooking Day or Board Games
• Week 1 calm vocabulary: Learn and Test: Classroom Words; Weather Words; Family Words; Routine Words; Food Words
• Week 2 binder, 64 pages: its own note to the substitute, filled-in week plan, blank schedule, class list, "how it went" sheet and Monday opener
• Week 2 review sets, all new: Home and Rooms (hay, estar for location, place words, colors and agreement); Town, Places and Directions (ir with al and a la, right, left and across from, places and transport); Clothes, Colors and Shopping (este and esta, querer, preferir and costar, numbers to 1,000, sizes and prices); Sports, Hobbies and Weekend Plans (jugar with al and a la, ir a, tener que, querer and poder with an infinitive); Body, Health and Feelings (me duele and me duelen, tener frío, calor, hambre, sed, sueño and miedo, estar with feelings)
• Week 2 team tasks: Our Dream Room; Around Town; The Class Clothing Store; The Weekend Plan; The Nurse’s Office
• Week 2 calm vocabulary: Learn and Test: Home Words; Town Words; Clothes Words; Sports Words; Body Words
• Week 3 binder, 65 pages: its own note to the substitute, filled-in week plan, blank schedule, class list, "how it went" sheet and Monday opener
• Week 3 review sets, all new: Animals and Pets (ser and tener to describe animals, adjective agreement and colors, gustar and encantar); Nature and the Outdoors (weather with hace, está, hay, llueve and nieva, place words, ir a for outdoor plans); Travel and Vacation (ir with en for transport, ir a, querer and preferir, dates, clock times and prices); Holidays and Celebrations (dates and months, gustar and encantar, regular verbs, tener for age); Jobs and the Community (ser with a profession, trabajar en, ¿dónde trabaja?, tener que)
• Week 3 team tasks: Mystery Animals; The Outdoor Week; The Hotel Front Desk; The Fiesta Calendar; The Helper Hotline
• Week 3 calm vocabulary: Learn and Test: Animal Words; Nature Words; Travel Words; Party Words; Job Words
• Week 4 binder, 64 pages: its own note to the substitute, filled-in week plan, blank schedule, class list, "how it went" sheet and Monday opener
• Week 4 review sets, all new: Countries and Cities (ser de, nationalities with agreement, estar en for location, Spanish-speaking countries and capitals); Chores and Helping at Home (tener que with an infinitive, poder, frequency words, regular verbs); Music, Movies and Opinions (gustar and encantar with nouns and infinitives, opinion adjectives, preferir, porque); Phones, Technology and Free Time (the present tense, frequency words, querer and poder with an infinitive, time expressions); Friends and a Big Review (ser and estar to describe friends, ir a, a mixed review of A1 grammar)
• Week 4 team tasks: The Pen Pal Match; The Chore Puzzle; Our New Band; Whose Phone Is It?; The Friend File Relay
• Week 4 calm vocabulary: Learn and Test: Geography Words; Chore Words; Music and Movie Words; Technology Words; Friendship Words
• Week 5 binder, 64 pages: its own note to the substitute, filled-in week plan, blank schedule, class list, "how it went" sheet and Monday opener
• Week 5 review sets, all new: The Supermarket and Cooking (querer, necesitar and tener que, numbers to 1,000 and prices, quantities, nosotros for recipe steps); School Clubs and Activities (venir and salir, gustar and encantar with an infinitive, poder and querer, days and times, ir a); My Neighborhood and Neighbors (hay, estar and place words, del and de la, ser and estar for people, possessives); Weather and Seasons Around the World (weather with hace, está, llueve and nieva, months and seasons north and south, temperatures in words, tener que and porque); Restaurants and Street Food (pedir, querer and preferir, quisiera, gustar with food, prices, describing food with agreement)
• Week 5 team tasks: The Recipe on the Wall; The Club Interviews; The New Neighbor’s Questions; The Weather Show Script; Our Food Stand
• Week 5 calm vocabulary: Learn and Test: Supermarket Words; Club Words; Neighborhood Words; Season Words; Street Food Words
• Week 6 binder, 64 pages: its own note to the substitute, filled-in week plan, blank schedule, class list, "how it went" sheet and Monday opener
• Week 6 review sets, all new: A Day in a Spanish-Speaking City (routine verbs, reflexives and stem changers with dormir, telling time, ir a, frequency words); Art, Colors and Museums (adjective agreement and colors, ser to describe, gustar and encantar, este, esta, estos and estas); The Environment and Recycling (tener que, poder, hay, frequency words, ir a); Food from Different Countries (gustar and encantar with food, ser de, nationalities with agreement, preferir, por qué and porque); Big Final Review (a three-round points game on paper with a square for every A1 grammar point)
• Week 6 team tasks: Time Dominoes; The Class Art Show; The Green Invention Fair; The Food Passport; The Final Escape Room
• Week 6 calm vocabulary: Learn and Test: City Day Words; Art Words; Recycling Words; World Food Words; Final Review Words
• Optional Spanish games for the last 15 minutes of each day, a fun way to end the class or something for extra time, with new level A1 questions in each week (asked in English, Spanish answers in the key): Whiteboard Quiz Game; Paper Password; Class Feud; Classroom Millionaire; Mystery Box
• A calm vocabulary block for each of the 30 days, for early finishers or a loud moment: students learn 8 new Spanish words, turn the page over and test themselves quietly, then check with the answer strip. 240 words in all, none repeated
• Answer keys for every set, vocabulary test, team task and game, at the back of each binder

Here is a quick look at all six weeks: