7 Strategies to Get Your Child to Speak the Minority Language
Do your children understand the language you use with them but rarely speak it back to you? It can seem like a never ending task to help them actively use the minority language. Yet speaking in the minority language is…
Easy Screen-Free Spanish Activities for Kids
Are your kids getting burned out with all the screen time this school year? Looking for some simple screen-free activities that your child could do to practice Spanish? Try one of these EASY activities that will make practicing Spanish fun…
Elementary Spanish Calendar Routine Ideas
Many preschool and elementary classrooms start each morning off with a calendar routine. While doing distance learning at home with my kids, we even started our morning routine with calendar time! Here are some ideas for how to enhance your…
Fun Outdoor Language Learning Activities for Kids
Get out in nature and learn some new vocabulary My amazing mom always says, “Keep it simple, make it fun!” This was especially important to her as a parent and a long-time kindergarten teacher, and even now that she is…
Using Daily Routines to Teach Your Child a Second Language
When people find out that we’re raising our kids bilingually or that our son goes to a Spanish immersion school, I often hear, “Oh we could never do that.” Or just as often, “I took some Spanish in high school,…
10 Engaging Ways to Practice High Frequency Words (that Your Kids Will Love)
With free English and Spanish templates to use at school or at home High frequency words and sight words are words that beginning readers need to learn to start reading books fluently. What’s the difference? Sight words are words that…
Bilingual Picture Dictionaries for Elementary Students
Earlier this year, we took our three kids on their very first plane rides – to Tucson, Arizona! My husband and I moved down to Tucson from Iowa several years ago. He did his intern year of his medical residency,…
Ideas for Supporting Second Language Learning at Home
Try one of these new ideas for supporting your child’s language learning at home – even if you don’t speak the language! Is your child learning another language in a bilingual or immersion program or from a caregiver? If so,…
Nurturing a love for language learning
