  What a weird way to end the school year! I know I am not alone in feeling bummed out about how it ended. I had all these big plans of what I was going to gift my Seniors on our last day of Spanish class.
I got SO very lucky this year with my Spanish IV students. They welcomed me with open arms and were so willing to try anything with their new, crazy teacher. I still have so much to learn and there were mess ups and mistakes along the way and they rolled with all the punches. Oh and there were also ONLY 5 of them. I should preface by saying its a VERY small school and from what I learned this year a mass exodus from the Spanish program, because "the new Spanish teacher is hard"-- that's what my lovely students from student teaching told my new students. Ironically my Spanish I and II classes are larger than they have been in a decade next year... so. Either way all these things helped me in my brainstorming. My students love music. The Mania Musical brackets from Mis Clases Locas as well as her Para Empezar (which includes Música Miércoles {Check out her free week here}) were big parts of our classroom culture. So I decided to throw it back a little to the age of MixTapes and make my students there very own modern, Spanish version. I created a playlist of their favorite songs from this year. It's a little comical to me, because it's so random, but it's basically the winners from our brackets during Hispanic Heritage Month and Mania Musical de Marzo as well as songs I played often in the classroom or ones the requested after hearing them during Música Miércoles. My students also really don't understand the lyrics and are all 18 , so use it at your own discretion. If I taught heritage speakers or middle school it might look different. Here's the playlist I gave to my students: THS clase de español de 2020 As well as some other playlists I use often and you could easily pull songs from: Latin X Indie (Chill and great for background music in classroom) Spanish Coffee Shop Playlist ( I use this when we do my Starbucks Mode, also chill) Disney en español ( everyone knows these songs :) ) Latin Hits (I listen to this playlist to stay up-to-date on the Hits and get ideas for new songs in class) However, I am of the mindset that this gift is only as good as the time and thoughtfulness you put into it. Pick songs YOUR students will know and like. Now as far as how I went about make this paper, digital, not an actual "MixTape" playlist. I created a cute template that you can either mail or email to your students. Save yourself some time and use one of the 5 templates I've already created. Comes with all the instructions as well! You can grab it here. I took the playlist I created on Spotify and put it into a QR Code generator. All this detailed instructions on formating and creating this are in my resource on TPT. And then I wrote individual messages to each of my students. Mailed them with the smaller print option of my template of the playlist and I was done. ( The stationary I use is the American Greetings brand from Amazon. You can grab them at this link.) However, if you have more than 5 students and don't want to hand write and cut out for each student I included a larger version in my resource that can easily be edited and downloaded in PDF or PNG form and emailed to your students! I didn't take me very long and I know that at the very least it will make my students smile. -Sierra
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