Señora Gose's Homeschool Spanish Blog (aka "Seriously, Suzanne")
How *NOT* to teach Spanish
Are you using any of these methods to teach or learn Spanish? Maybe... stop. ~ Memorizing phrases via audio only One of my first phrases I painstakingly learned and memorized by audio sound only was, "El caballo salta la cerca." I guess it was to learn the S and K sounds made by the letter C. It means, "The horse jumps the fence." Though I have seen horses jump the fence multiple times since learning that phrase... I have never uttered it to anyone around me, in any language. What a waste of brain space! Of COURSE you can learn...
Homeschool History Hack - Where do I start?
This is a super short blog tip for you - and a little video to explain a little more. Remember when we were in public school? They didn't HAVE history in elementary school. It was called social studies. SOCIAL. STUDIES. So your job was to study the social structures around you. We were just supposed to learn about relationships, culture, how nations worked - get the foundations, some basic stories of our nations history, and REALLY REALLY focus on holidays, lol! As an example, these cards to the left are a high ranking result when you search for "SOCIAL STUDIES."How...
CHECKING IN: Mid-year start up, going strong, or need a mid-year pick me up?
Just checking in - How's your NEW year going? (We're at the end of the month, so we probably have a pretty good idea of where we are now? Maybe?) Let's leave a pretty easy response...😁 - Everything is right on target. We've faded AWAY from the holiday craze, shook off some laziness, and now we're pretty well back in the saddle! YEAH! 🤗 - We're OK. I mean, I'm still lacking efficiency. I have a few Christmas decorations still hanging around, and I'm NOT stoked about this spring. It may be that I need a small kick in the...
Seven ways to use the One-Word-a-Day Method for learning Spanish
When attempting anything new, most of us humans have one of two ways that we go about it: ALL IN - deep dive, huge change or BABY STEPS - small changes, building to bigger moves I think we can all agree that the ALL IN method sometimes works, is invigorating and often helpful to break out of ruts or bad habits, but the BABY STEPS method (I call it x+1 throughout my blogs, lessons, books, and articles) is in general more sustainable. With that agreement, let me give you SEVEN awesome, easy ways to make the one word a day...
High School Spanish Video Course - Can you do it with a Homeschool Co-op?
This is a VERY common question - "I want my kids to learn Spanish from someone who knows the language well, is a passionate teacher, and be with other students! How can I do that? No one in my co-op knows Spanish!" I have solution for you!~ Weekly Recorded classes with both "Class Teaching" - a recorded class of me teaching actual students, as well as the same lesson with power point slides. (20 minutes or so)~ Vocabulary video (5minutes or so)~ Guidebooks with note-taking for class time and Assignments~ Textbook assignments with answer key~ Optional Exams and quizzesMany homeschool co-ops...