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LOOKING FOR SUPPORT TO TEACH YOUR KIDS SPANISH AT HOME?
If you’re like me and love to have people you can go to for support, to ask questions, get inspiration, see how others are doing it – you need to join JUMP INTO SPANISH. It’s a group I started for parents who are trying to teach their children Spanish at home. It’s a Charlotte Mason approach to language learning, and I send you weekly lesson plans and ideas. There are six 12-week terms in total, and we are about to jump into our next one. Please join us!!
New Stuff
Women Making History: Laura Baena, Founder of Club de malasmadres
All March people around the globe have been celebrating women and women in history. If you are interested in celebrating multicultural women in history you can read through the 30 amazing articles of the 2016 Women's History Series (see below) put together by...
Exploring Tea in Spain & Peru–Multicultural Toys & Activities for Kids
Food and drink seem to be two things that can always bring people together. Today with my blogging friends Kay and Maria, we are connecting through tea! After reading about tea in Spain and Peru below, head over to experience an English High Tea and to...
Multicultural Toys & Activities for Kids – Leap Day Spanish Skip Counting
I'm getting together with my blogging buddies Kay and Maria again to bring to you all some fun multicultural activities for kids. Today we are celebrating Leap Day!Maria has a 2016 Leap Day Journal for you, andKay has prepared a fun Arabic alphabet coloring page...
What’s a High School Homeschool Student To Do? // 7 Tips for High School Homeschool Spanish
Learning a foreign language without immersion is somewhat like trying to put together a puzzle without the original picture--you have no bigger picture to look at to reference where all the pieces go. Or maybe it's somewhat like walking through a life-size maze--you...
10 Minute Spanish Lesson for Kids–Valentine’s Day
My toddler and I made this fun Spanish Valentine's Day story to have fun practicing the colors in Spanish. He is two and had a blast with it. You can print a copy for yourself from the link at the end of this post. And for those of you who are...
Simple Preschool Lesson Plan for Spanish Colors
You may have read in my recent post The Truth About Learning Spanish with Kids, that sometimes things seem harder than they really are. When it comes to learning Spanish with my kids ages 5, 4, and 2 the learning can be fun and simple, and it doesn't have to be...
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Essays on Bilingualism
Speak Spanish with Your Baby!
When I had my first child a friend told me: “Speak Spanish with him all the time. Let your husband speak English and you just speak Spanish.” I sooooo wish I could have done that.
How to Learn Spanish as an Introvert
In my journey of learning and now teaching Spanish, I have learned a few things about myself, and those things have helped me to learn and teach better. And believe me–it is all still a work in progress.
The Truth About Learning Spanish With Kids
Learning Spanish with kids can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be.
Why We Quit Spanish + How We Got It Back
It wasn’t until Spanish became a part of our routine again, that I understood why it had left in the first place. It’s been so long since then, that I don’t exactly remember making a decision to “stop doing Spanish.”