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

Here's the long and short of graduating your homeschooler upon 12th grade completion:The truth to graduating a homeschooler is that you can do ANYTHING. We have been attending and then hosting, and then coordinating high school graduations for more than two decades! Our local group hosted graduations annually. It was YEARs ago when I was pregnant with our fourth child. I began taking  all my kids to the graduations, so they could enjoy and look forward to their own celebration and ceremony. It worked! My eldest was VERY excited. And then his graduation year came.... MAY 2020.AUUUUUUUGH! NOOOOOoooooo fair!All our...

Did you know you already have an educational philosophy? It's true. It's sort of like knowing you have tastes, but you just haven't discovered all of them yet. You have to try foods, music, events, sports, etc, in order to find out your tastes, and then after a while, you don't need to try as many things, because you're secure in your own palate.  An educational philosophy is basically a preference that has yet to been defined. These next few weeks, I'll be helping you discover and define your own educational philosophy. We'll start with the order I discovered them,...

We all know that "screen time" is a bad thing for our children's growing brains. Screen time while learning a second language seems almost unavoidable!  But it's a much deeper issue than a simple addiction, and it IS avoidable, even while homeschooling. Addiction to anything is already bad enough, but the negative effects of screen time are far more reaching and subversive. Let's start with all the bad news, starting with the most obvious points, leading to the lesser known facts: Screen time and "tech ed" lead to...~ decreased attention span~ increased rapid jumping~ increased anxiety levels~ inability to use...

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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