San Severino is a traditional action song sung in Spanish about the various jobs and careers people have. The two jobs I included in the video are “la tortillera”, the person who makes “tortillas”, and “la lavendera”, the person who washes clothes. The reason I included these is because they are traditional verses that go with the song and because they are traditional jobs one might have latin america.

You could really add any careers or jobs to the list. When one of my Kindergarten classes sang this, I had them each tell me what jobs they wanted to do when they grew up and we included those verses in a performance at their Kindergarten Graduation.

Here are a few that we came up with:

“el policía” the police officer

“el bombero” the fireman

“el cocinero” the chef

“la bailarina” the ballerina/dancer

“el doctor” or “el medico” the doctor

“el artista” the artist

“la maestra” the teacher

“el dentista” the dentist

We had fun making up the verses and accompanying movements together.

Choose a few verses that resonate with you and try this song with your class or your own kids and let me know how it went in the comments section.