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

In this season of gratefulness (what a great theme, right?) I would like to give thanks for YOU, my Flip Flop Spanish Customers! We've been providing our community with local Spanish classes for homeschoolers for 15 years, and the world wide community with innovative practical Spanish curriculum for more than ten years now! My students and customers in turn have blessed us, as a family, with support, ideas, letters, emails, and calls. I'm so grateful to be on this road with so many families who want to do the VERY best for their children. THANK YOU.  ¡Muchísimas gracias! (moo-CHEE-see-mahs GRAH-see-ahs)...

We all look forward to holidays, but we also see a lot of memory loss in math and short term vocabulary learning when we pause our studies. How do we keep vocabulary going during a break?Here are a few fun ideas to keep the memory loss at a minimum... Thanksgiving crafts... the ones where you make a turkey by tracing your hand? Label it in Spanish, and decorate your bathroom or kitchen with them! (la mano, el dedo, la cabeza, el pavo...: hand, finger, head, turkey) - The bathroom and kitchen are the locations we spend the most time, after...

Flip Flop Spanish is a family business. I'm the teacher and curriculum writer. Marketing, web design, inventory, and shipping are my husband's department. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at a business meeting. I get called into his office. My manly Marine presented THIS to me for a "downloads image" to send to our cherished Flip Flop Spanish subscribers, I (kindly and gently of course) remarked: "Hey, Babe. That's super cool, but, um, ....Have you forgotten our demographic?" (Notice the escape button at the bottom. Dad Puns were even more rampant in a few other versions of this robot guy.) His response...

You've had four days of tips and tricks to think through your Wiggly Willy's ways... If you’re looking… for something to facilitate your student’s foreign language study, be sure to post a comment, and I’ll give you suggestions for your age range, or a review if I’ve already tried out something that you’re thinking of.  A good resource is my book The Key to Learning Anything. EVERY subject has tips for your special learner. The main tip for this learning style would be to stay away from traditional textbooks. – Very rarely will they incorporate the types of hands-on learning...

Keep on Keeping On – After a few weeks of study, your game possibilities are endless for adding Spanish absorption: act out skits, put actions to simple songs (charades, choreography), create works of art to illustrate a new vocabulary list, Pictionary is another fun, quick way, to confirm the knowledge, There are countless options: your student will have TONS of ways to review his language progress! The unfortunate part of this learning preference is that so much of the Spanish curricula out there is directed toward reading, writing, or listening. Wiggly Willies need this too. Just not on the front...