This time-based learning activity helps children learn numbers by associating them with familiar daily activities. List various daily activities on index cards. This may include dinner, lunch, watching television, going to school or brushing teeth. Make a clock out of paper and use a brass clasp to attach movable paper hands. Ask the students to draw an index card with a daily activity listed on the front. Ask the student, "¿A qué hora haces esto?" or "What time do you do this?" The child should indicate the time by moving the hands of the clock to represent the appropriate time. Ask the child to respond in Spanish, explaining what time they complete that daily activity. For instance, ask the student what time they brush their teeth when the clock reads 6:05. A response should be "a las seis y cinco." Continue the game until the student demonstrates an understanding of Spanish numbers.
Write the Spanish words for the numbers one through 12 on stickers and place them on the classroom clock, forcing students to tell time using Spanish words. Replace the standard calendar in your classroom with one that uses Spanish numbers for each date. Print out pictures of clocks and instruct students to label each time of day using Spanish words for time, including words like "media" which indicates half an hour, or middle of the hour.
Teach students to sing Spanish versions of counting songs such as "Ten Little Indians" or "Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed." Read counting books to students, switching out numbers for Spanish numbers during the recitation.
Provide students with several decks of playing cards and organize them into small groups. Instruct students to play traditional card games like gin and Go Fish, but prohibit the use of English words for numbers. Print numbers on index cards and print corresponding Spanish words for those numbers on other cards. Instruct students in a group to match all Spanish numbers with the English numbers, inviting each group to compete in a timed matching game.