Supporting you and your child on your language learning journey
New Year, new goals? Right? Maybe one of your New Year’s resolutions this year is to work on your child’s bilingual language skills at home. You can start off the New Year right with these New Year activities for kids in Spanish! I’m always looking …
Learning Spanish through themes is one of the best ways to make language learning concrete and what better theme that the Christmas holiday season! With Christmas activities for kids in Spanish, you can build Spanish language time into your day. Christmas is a holiday that …
Learning Spanish through themes is one of the best ways to make language learning concrete. When I first started learning Spanish with my daughter I started with color words. Color is an easily accessible theme to start with since the idea is so familiar to …
Are you looking for ways to celebrate and learn about Dia de los Muertos? Before I started learning Spanish with my daughter, I didn’t know that much about the Mexican holiday. Now that we’re knee deep in our Spanish learning, I know so much more! …
Learning Spanish through themes is one of the best ways to make language learning concrete. Weather is an easily accessible theme to start with since the idea is so familiar to everyone – children and adults! Using the Quick Start Guide, songs, websites and books, …
As a nonnative Spanish speaker, I’m always looking for ways to give my daughter exposure to native Spanish speakers. To read more about the challenges of promoting Spanish in an English dominated community read: How To Get Your Child To Speak The Minority Language Since …
The Khan Academy App My daughter has been very interested in numbers for a long time now. She enjoys counting, thinking about how things combine, making patterns and creating designs. The Montessori preschool that she went to provided a strong foundation in number sense and …
My daughter has been increasingly interested in science and is often asking about germs (also maybe because we’re in a pandemic!!) In any case, we’ve had many conversations about germs, how they’re small and hard to see but that they’re still there. Since she’s been …
Earth Day has been celebrated on April 22nd since 1970 and it’s an important holiday to talk about with children. Even though it’s celebrated just one day a year, creating an Earth conscious lifestyle is crucial. In this post I am going to share some …
One of the times that we practice Spanish each week is in the car. It’s a great way to practice and there are so many ways in which you can make this a passive language learning time or an interactive and conversational learning time! If …