Heartwood Institute : Primary Spanish Kit

Primary Spanish Kit

Kit Includes

14 books in Spanish
Teachers’ Guide (English)
14 lesson cards (English)
World map, 50 x 32 inches
Heartwood attributes poster
Kit box

Featured Book: Too Many Tamales
1993, by Alma Flor Ada, Ed Martinez, Gary Soto

While making tamales with her family on Christmas Eve, Maria tries on her mother’s diamond ring. Later, Maria misses the ring and believes she has cooked it into the food. She enlists her loyal cousins to eat through the batch of tamales in search of the ring. When they are unsuccessful, she confesses her actions to her mother. Family loyalty provides a supportive atmosphere for telling the truth. Martinez's oil paintings show a loving contemporary Mexican American family.

Attributes: Loyalty, Love, Honesty

Related information

For a listing of books in the kit, please request a catalog.

For more information about Heartwood kits, go to Inside a Heartwood Kit .

Providing materials in Spanish for young language learners represents one aspect of Heartwood’s commitment to multicultural education for all students. Click here to request information about the Institute’s approach to multicultural education.