Preterite+Marching+Song

I got this march in a session at the MIWLA conference and my students loved it. We used it to practice just a few of the far too many irregular verbs in the preterite tense. After they had a good sense of the words we went outside and actually marched as we were singing. It was a great change of pace for the kids. By asking the students to line up in order to march we also practiced numbers and to the left and to the right. You could ask students to line up to march in any variety of ways, by birthdays, by age, grouped in lines by eye color or hair color, whatever you want them to practice.

After messing up the rythm several times of the last line I elected a student who understood the rhythm to be the leader for that section.

Fui Vi Di (very punctuated rhythm that students repeat) hice, quise, vine yo (students repeat verbs after you each time) estuve, anduve, tuve yo dije, traje, conduje yo supe, puse, pude yo preterito, (kids repeat) irregular, (kids repeat) yo ya sé los verbos