Supporting you and your child on your language learning journey
February is Black History Month in the United States and it’s a time when many schools highlight the contributions of African Americans to American history. In order to keep up with my daughter’s Spanish language skills, I started a collection of books that highlight some …
Listening to Spanish music with children is one of the easiest ways to build Spanish learning into your day. You can have it on in the background, listen to it when you’re driving or practice singing along with it. Regardless of your child’s age, listening …
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 …
When my daughter was almost three, we started reading beginning graphic novels in Spanish. Graphic novels are great for language learning for a variety of reasons and I was happy to find several good ones when I was looking for books for us to read …
When my daughter was three years old she told me that she wanted to learn how to read. She attended a Montessori preschool where the age range was 3-6 years old and she saw that older peers were starting to read books. I wondered if …
Raising a child to be bilingual can be challenging, especially if you’re a non-native speaker. Even though you know how to teach your child another language and even though you have the resources, making that conscious commitment can be hard. For me, there are days …
Are you at home during the COVID-19 crisis?? Most families are staying safe at home while social distancing due to the current pandemic. Working full time, parenting and teaching your kiddos at home can be overwhelming to say the least. And yet most parents right …
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After trying to raise my daughter bilingual in Spanish and English, I decided I needed to find more resources to support her Spanish language development. I went online and began reading all of the articles that I could find. But so many of the things …
