Señora Gose's Homeschool Spanish Blog (aka "Seriously, Suzanne")
The Dirty Dozen - Twelve tips on Teaching Homeschool Teens (Part two of three)
TEACHING TEENS TIP #8: It must be useful IMMEDIATELY. When you're a teenager being taught something, the first question you ask, is, "When am I ever going to use this?" So! Give them the ability to use their new knowledge RIGHT NOW. What do they love to do? (What do we all love to do?) We LOVE to give an opinion. I like, I don't like, I love, I hate... ALLLL those sentence starters are like GOLD when they are learning any new verb, noun, or adjective. Give them the ability to create an opinion, and it is useful to...
What's the Difference between Flip Flop Spanish & Spanish Geniuses?
Buenos días. Today we get to talk about the differences between Flip Flop Spanish and Spanish Geniuses. What are all the differences? I've gotten a lot of questions this week, especially with the back to school flurry!Flip Flop Spanish. Let's start with the younger ages. If you have a kindergartner, as young as three years old, all the way up to 13, 14, or 15, and any of those ages in between, you're going to want See it and Say it Flip Flop Spanish. It's a full set, two years of curriculum that is fit for the whole family. Everything is...
The Dirty Dozen - Twelve tips on Teaching Homeschool Teens (Part one of three)
Prefer a video summary? In America, the most useful second language is Spanish, so I hope these 12 days help you engage and have a SUPER FUN stress free time of learning along with your teen. I have 5 kiddos, and each of them have put forth various amounts of effort In learning their second (and some third!) language. When they WANT It, man, there's no STOPPING them! And when they don't, it's VERY difficult to help. So.... here are the DIRTY DOZEN - simple tips to help you and your high schooler acquire a second language - because they...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Spanish Unit Study
There are SO SO many options to studying The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I haven't gotten my felt set in yet, but I'll be adding that to the reading lesson videos as soon as I do! Here are all the files for my newsletter subscribers! What else did you study with this book? Leave a comment and help the others out!Need to buy the book? Click the cover! Here's a bilingual version, too! Click the cover for a board book or hardcover option - both less than $10. In Spanish or English, your homeschool can be filled with lessons...
Why is it Called See it and Say it?
Answer: Because "Read it, Mispronounce, Memorize, and Then Forget it" was already taken, and frankly, was too long to fit on the box.🤣 Just kidding. But seriously.... When you think about how you learned to speak as a baby, no one broke out the dictionary, a phonics chart, any sort of app or a book. They simply spoke to you. You associated sounds with items, and your parents and siblings held items up when they wanted to know if you wanted it, or liked it. "Ba-ba? You want your baba?" 🍼 "Juice? 🍊 Milk? 🥛 Wa-wa?" 💦 Some...