Señora Gose's Homeschool Spanish Blog (aka "Seriously, Suzanne")

As a public school teacher, I made thousands, yes, THOUSANDS of flash cards. Before that, as a Spanish student, I made even more! I just wrote the Spanish on one side, English on the other, and called it done.  I flipped them over, flopped them down into "know it" and "don't know it" piles. I had a literal suitcase full of rubber banded cards that I carried around in my pockets - "know it" pocket, and "don't know it" pockets. They were EVERYwhere. And they mostly worked for me. But I was a studious, dedicated learner, past puberty, with a...

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Let's face it, Momma. You are a REBEL. If you weren't, you would have simply put your kid on the big yellow bus when he was "of age" at five years old, and not thought a thing about it. But you DID think about it, and even "worse," you acted on it! And beyond that, you're a special brand of a rebel, because you're looking at adding in SPANISH to this sweetie's daily life.  You took the hard way. There was an EASY choice that receives no questions, no flack, no eyebrow raises, and you took a WAY different path,...

Are you having trouble with progress? What do you need? A Checklist! Grocery run? Checklist! New workout plan? Checklist! Gigantic meal, birthday party, errands to run, cleaning craze? Check Check CHECKLIST! And guess when else checklists are awesome? That's RIGHT - for Homeschool Planning. As a mom of five - all of them came within 6.5 years of each other - I knew I needed a plan in order to homeschool well. I was very blessed with LOTS of input! Since I was teaching high school, middle school AND elementary school Spanish classes when our first baby was a toddler, the...

My top ten requirements (or goals) for any curriculum, but especially a Spanish curriculum are listed here. I asked Google for "Spanish Homeschool Curriculum Options" and rated the top ten that came up, and then added one because I like them, lol! You can watch the video below, or just check out the chart. :-)  No screens before puberty Series method (meaningful repetition) Multiple Ages Cost under $100/year Hands on Short Lessons Open and Go Sustainable Simple Multiple Children (Click the chart for a larger view.) *We have a few edits for my lacking in knowledge about Breaking the Barrier...