Señora Gose's Homeschool Spanish Blog (aka "Seriously, Suzanne")
Do NOT go to a Homeschool Convention This Year
Homeschool Conventions are the last place on earth for a nice family like yours this summer. Listen to me, and stay far far away. LISTEN to this blog on my Podcast channel here.You and your children already understand that learning is a JOB, and there's only ONE location to do it. If you go a homeschool convention, you'll for sure be exposed to alternate ways and locations to not only learn, but even alternate subjects to study! There's a HUGE possibility that your children may wander around the exhibit hall full of learning and teaching resources and get really excited about...
5 Simple Tricks To LOCK in SPEEDY Spanish Learning!
In my last blog post, I gave you some methods of learning and teaching foreign language to avoid. It's not that those methods 100% don't work. It's that they aren't efficient or useful to actually being able to converse. That slow-going method creates an obstacle, causing us to believe a few different things... We're not GOOD at Spanish, or it's HARD, or it's just not worth it. So... go back, and please do avoid those methods, even though the message was a bit of a downer. So let me follow up today with five easy tricks to get super QUICK...
How *NOT* to teach Spanish
Are you using any of these methods to teach or learn Spanish? Maybe... stop. ~ Memorizing phrases via audio only One of my first phrases I painstakingly learned and memorized by audio sound only was, "El caballo salta la cerca." I guess it was to learn the S and K sounds made by the letter C. It means, "The horse jumps the fence." Though I have seen horses jump the fence multiple times since learning that phrase... I have never uttered it to anyone around me, in any language. What a waste of brain space! Of COURSE you can learn...
Homeschool History Hack - Where do I start?
This is a super short blog tip for you - and a little video to explain a little more. Remember when we were in public school? They didn't HAVE history in elementary school. It was called social studies. SOCIAL. STUDIES. So your job was to study the social structures around you. We were just supposed to learn about relationships, culture, how nations worked - get the foundations, some basic stories of our nations history, and REALLY REALLY focus on holidays, lol! As an example, these cards to the left are a high ranking result when you search for "SOCIAL STUDIES."How...
CHECKING IN: Mid-year start up, going strong, or need a mid-year pick me up?
Just checking in - How's your NEW year going? (We're at the end of the month, so we probably have a pretty good idea of where we are now? Maybe?) Let's leave a pretty easy response...😁 - Everything is right on target. We've faded AWAY from the holiday craze, shook off some laziness, and now we're pretty well back in the saddle! YEAH! 🤗 - We're OK. I mean, I'm still lacking efficiency. I have a few Christmas decorations still hanging around, and I'm NOT stoked about this spring. It may be that I need a small kick in the...