We will discuss before and/or assess in class where the individual student is at with the Spanish language and what they want or need to work on. This is a one-on-one version of my BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE SPANISH courses. 

Any age:
INITIAL LESSON OPTIONS (any order): 
This initial curriculum focuses on a limited set of vocab and phrases each week that we practice through a simple storybook and a game. Here is a list of topics (that I have already prepared and used many times in my classes) that we may work through, one each week. However, as this is an individual session, I am happy to go in whatever order the parent or learner desires if requested because the lessons do not build on each other. Note, I make changes to adjust for the learner's Spanish level beginning through intermediate:
1 - Telling our names and ages
2 - Asking and answering what things are with common animals and items
3 - Telling how we feel
4 - Telling what we are doing
5 - Telling where we are in the town
6 - Expressing food likes and dislikes
7 - Describing with personal attributes
8 - Telling what we have with numbers and animals
9 - Talking about facial features and body parts
10 - Describing colors
11 - Talking about clothing
12 - Talking about the weather
13 - Talking about family members
14 - Talking about rooms in a house
15 - Talking about farm animals
16 - Asking and answering what we like to do
17 -  Telling what we want to drink
18 - Talking about the days of the week
19 - Talking about what we see in nature
20 - Telling time by the hour and what it is time to do
21 - Talking about transportation methods
22 - Telling our favorite sports
23 - Talking about animals of the jungle
24 - Telling how to set the table in Spanish
25 - Talking about chores
26 - Describing with opposites
27 - Talking about professions
28 - Telling what we would like to eat
29 - Telling where countries are with cardinal directions
30 - Giving action commands
31 - Talking about furniture
32 - Telling location with prepositions of place
33 - Talking about body parts and clothing with snowmen
34 - Naming and describing ocean animals
35 - Talking about the seasons of the year
36 - Sharing what instruments we play
37 - Telling what school subjects we study
38 - Introducing ourselves with names, pronouns (optional), and favorites
39 - Identifying two-dimentional shapes
Optional homework: For the above lessons, I provide class notes, copies of our book or story from class, and one or more worksheets after each lesson for optional homework. 

INTERMEDIATE LESSONS (Reading and Conversation). Can be done in any order:
Lesson 1 - Book: "Monstruos en mi casa (Monsters in My House)" by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Body parts and monsters
Lesson 2 - Book: "¿Quién puede cargar la manzana? (Who Can Carry the Apple?)" by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Insects and working together
Lesson 3- Book: "El nene Leo y sus papas (The Baby Leo and his potatoes) by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Food likes and dislikes
Lesson 4 - Book: "Alberto Avión quiere volar (Albert Airplane Wants to Fly)" by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Airplanes and feelings
Lesson 5 - Book: "Penelope quiere pizza (Penelope Wants Pizza)" by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Pizza and toppings
Lesson 6 - Book: "Carro azul anda lento (Blue Car Goes Slow)" by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Cars, speeds, and ways to move
Lesson 7 - Book: "Mamá Elefante, ¿dónde estás? (Mama Elephant, Where Are You?)" by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Animals
Lesson 8 - Book: "El tren que pensó que sí podía (The Train That Thought He Could)" by Tristan Meier/instructor (based on the 1906 public domain story by Charles Wing)
Discussion: Trains and what we think we can do
Lesson 9 - Book: "El barco de corteza (The Bark Boat)" by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Boats and how we move
Lesson 10 - Book: "Estrellita, ¿qué haces tú? (Little Star, What Do You Do?)" by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Nocturnal animals and their activities
Lesson 11 - Poem: "Invierno  (Winter)," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Winter activities
Lesson 12 - Poem: "Mis ovejas (My Sheep)," a traditional, public domain poem (usually called "Tengo, tengo, tengo (I have, I have, I have)" made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Things we have and are given and what farm animals provide
Lesson 13 -  Poem: "Cinco ratoncitos (Five Little Mice)," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Animal body parts and actions 
Lesson 14 - Poem: "Los pollitos (The Chicks)," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Physical needs and how we meet them
Lesson 15 - Poem: "Pin Pon," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor 
Discussion: Getting ready in the morning and at night
Lesson 16 - Fable: "El pato y la serpiente (The Duck and the Snake)," a book by Tristan Meier/instructor based on a public domain 1893 fable by Tomás de Iriarte 
Discussion: Skills we know how and don't know how to do
Lesson 17 - Fable: "El león y el ratón (The Lion and the Mouse)," a book by Tristan Meier/instructor based on a public domain, traditional fable
Discussion: Traps, actions, and describing images
Lesson 18 - Fable: "No duermas en el volcán (Don't Sleep on the Volcano)," a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Adjective descriptors and how others seem
Lesson 19 - Book: "El unicornio y la bruja (The Unicorn and the Witch)," a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: What we are missing
Lesson 20 - Poems: "Caracol, caracol (Snail, Snail)" and "Sol, solecito (Sun, Little Sun)," two traditional, public domain poems made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Light sources and animal families
Lesson 21 - Poem: "De colores (Colorful)," a traditional, public domain poem made into a book by Tristan Meier/instructor
Discussion: Springtime


Geared toward ages 10 and up:
VERB CONJUGATION LESSONS that you can choose instead or go back and forth between them and any lessons above. These are appropriate for learners around ten and up who have already practiced/studied Spanish for a little while:
1 - Personal subject pronouns - present tense
2 - Regular AR verb conjugations - present tense
3 - Regular ER verb conjugations - present tense
4 - Regular IR verb conjugations - present tense
5 - Review and conversation practice with regular AR, ER, and IR verbs
6 - The verb "ser" (to be) - present tense
7 - The verb "estar" (to be) - present tense
8 - The verb "tener" (to have) - present tense
9 - Review and extra practice with the verbs ser, estar, and tener
10 - UE stem-changing verbs - present tense
11 - IE stem-changing verbs - present tense
12 - I stem-changing verbs - present tense
13 - Review and extra practice with stem-changing verbs
14 - The verb "ir" (to go) - present tense
15 - The verb "hacer" (to make/to do) - present tense
Optional homework: For most of the above lessons, I also provide class notes and one or more worksheets after each lesson for optional homework. 

Finally, for upper-begginer and intermediate learners or older learners, I have also built a few CONVERSATION lessons to choose from, each with a specific grammar component, including:
1 - ¿Qué hiciste ayer? (What did you do yesterday?)
               Grammar focus: Preterit tense, focus on first person
2 - ¿Cómo te prepararas en la mañana? (How do you get ready in the morning?)
                 Grammar focus: Using reflexive verbs
3 - ¿Qué vas a hacer este fin de semana? (What are you going to do this weekend?)
                 Grammar focus: Using "ir a" to talk about the future
4 - ¿Cuál es un regalo que has recibido? ¿que has dado? (What is a gift you have received? that you have given?)
                 Grammar focus: Using indirect object pronouns
Optional homework: For the above lessons I provide class notes and instructions for an optional writing assignment after class which I provide feedback on.