Why Fairy Tales? Everyone loves a good fairy tale. They have likeable, everyday-people kinds of heroes, dis-likeable bad guys, they usually involve royalty and they inevitably happy endings. But perhaps the best reason for a good fairy tale is that in the end the good always wins. It’s a literature for-shadowing of our own story […]
Colors in Spanish: Free Learning Printables
There are lots of fun ways to learn and review colors when learning another language. Our family enjoys learning colors in Spanish with the wordless book, with color by number pages, with matching games, and with coloring sheets. English and Spanish color words: Red = rojo (row-ho) Pink = rosado (row-sah-dough) Orange = anaranjado (ah-nah-rahn-ha-dough) […]
Dilo Conmigo: Vamos a Jugar (Video)
Learning a language is much more fun when you can play as you do it! Today, Flower and Sir teach us how to say “Let’s Play!” on Dilo Conmigo (Say it with me!) Aprendiendo otra idioma es mucho más divertido siempre y cuando puedes jugar mientras lo haces. Hoy, Flor y Caballero nos enseñan a […]
31 Days of Homeschool Spanish
I know that many homeschool families are trying to incorporate foreign language into their studies even prior to the highschool requirements, but often don’t know where to go for curriculum or teaching aids. Today I am embarking on the task of bringing you 31 Days of Homeschool Spanish. Over the course of this month I plan to […]
Dilo Conmigo! Spanish for Kids Video Series
Immersion in a language when you are young, in my opinion, is by far the best way to learn a language. The second best way would be immersion when you are older… but if that’s not an option, you can learn a lot from videos. For our 31 Days of Homeschool Spanish series our family […]
Free Homeschool Helps (Spanish)
Spanish 1 Workbook I created this 26 page package of Spanish 1 level activity sheets to help beginning language learners review and reinforce what they are learning with vocabulary, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, verbs and gerunds. The Free offer to our subscribers has expired but it is also available for purchase in our Store as a printable download PDF […]
Christmas in Mexico
Coming home to Mexico today on Day 30 of our 31-Day (plus some) tour of Christmas Around the World! If you missed the others, you can find them here. Christmas in Mexico Wіth Christmas coming up fast, Mexico is gearing up for the holidays. This weekend, the non-Christians will be celebrating Day of the Dead, but once […]
An Online Homeschool Conference!
The Partnership We are so excited to announce a partnership with Felice Gerwitz of Media Angels to bring you the first ever Spanish Online Homeschool Conference! I first learned of the Ultimate Homeschool Expo when I met Felice in January at a conference. She told me about the Expo and I shared with her our […]