RCL Benziger has a couple. We use Bendicidos.
We have two separate sections for Pre-K 4-5th grade catechesis, one for Spanish one for English.
It might be worth your while to inquire WHY people want instruction in Spanish.
We have found that the Mexican (and South American) parents are afraid that their children will lose their Spanish fluency. The speak only English at school. Our teachers
(who only speak Spanish, for the most part) teach out of Spanish textbooks, but are finding, more and more, that the students refuse to speak Spanish in response, or simply say “I don’t know what you said…I don’t speak Spanish”. This from kids who have only been here 2 years in most cases.
While I’m all for encouraging culture (I’m Hispanic, btw) I think Catechism classes should be offering the language which is more readily understood by the students. Not as a way to keep teaching Spanish language lessons to children who won’t converse with their parents. The truly bi-lingual kids are those that speak English at school, and speak solely Spanish at home with their families. It’s an odd dynamic sometimes. People want to live here, but want their kids to long for a home that was never really their home. Most of our kids don’t even want to go back to Mexico…they don’t have warm and fuzzies about a place they barely remember. The parents, on the other hand, always say “when we go home”. The U.S. is the perceived home for most of the kids in our program.
As a side note: We would combine the classes, but we rely on borrowed space from the nearby Catholic school, and there simply are no classrooms large enough to accommodate the kids. So we keep it separated for convenience, to accommodate the families that WANT Spanish classes, and hold them on different days.
I wish it were different. Just can’t manage it.
