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

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...

Moving Forward – As you recognize that your student is grabbing more and more Spanish vocabulary, there are SO many fun ways to reinforce his learning: play Memory with the flash cards play Simon Says make culturally based art put pictures on a wall and have him touch the picture as you call out descriptive words in the picture have him describe a picture as he paints or draws play bingo with one of the Flip Flop Spanish Bingo games (coloring, cutting, flipping and WINNING are all great activities for the tactile learner.) Just be sure he’s not just sitting...

Let's focus in on our (ok, my) biggest challenge in the home today... TACTILE learners. Getting Started – Tactile learners are those ones that drive us nuts while they fidget or build or doodle and forever look like they’re not listening, but then shock us by reciting the exact lesson when we least expect it! There is a small risk, though – sometimes, they really AREN’T listening...Your sweet tactile learner is more involved in the doodle, or the pipe cleaner, or the fuzz on the carpet he’s enjoying flicking around. So…. make the fidget part of the language lesson. As...

Happy Birthday, USMC! (¡Feliz Cumpleaños!) I love that all the pre-orders of the the Ministry Spanish Flash Cards are being mailed out on such a day of honor and celebration. (I'm married to a Marine!) Creating a new product is always full of emotion. It's quite similar to having a baby... Hard work, concern, processing, deciding "today is the day," fear, and hope! When our children opened the box and the first set of flashcards, the "oohing and ahhing" and smiles up at me as they started laying out sentences immediately reminded me: (just like having a new baby) it...

Immersion is a pretty big idea in the Language Learning community, and I agree it's a fantastic method!... to a point. Here's my "point:" If we overwhelm our students, they'll tune the language out, especially if they know that at SOME point during their day, they'll get back to their native language. So, a lot (as usual) depends on the student. It's pretty difficult to use true immersion in America, without a native speaker living in your home full time. So… keep it simple: think about how we learned our first language.  When a baby begins speaking, he usually says...