Plus a free printable to empower your everyday Spanish learning What do eating breakfast, brushing our teeth, or getting dressed have in common? They’re perfect daily routines for practicing Spanish at home! These small moments in our day may seem insignificant when it comes to learning languages. Yet, there is power in what we do […]
Best Devotional Books for Kids – in Spanish & English
Are you raising little ones in a faith-filled home? Perhaps you’d like to start a daily devotion time for your family. Devotional books are an excellent way to teach our children about God and incorporate our faith into a daily routine. Just like learning a language, when we prioritize and value something on a daily […]
Winter Science Experiments for Kids in Spanish (With Videos)
Amazing winter science experiments to try at home with your child! Looking for some wonderful winter science your child can do at home? From ice crystals and artificial snow to homemade ice cream or a snow storm, I’ve got you covered! You and your child can create your own winter science lab in the kitchen. […]
Creating a Spanish Immersion Environment for Kids at Home
Spanish immersion at home: seven ways to create an engaging environment to help kids learn at home “How can I help my child practice Spanish at home when I don’t speak Spanish?” “What can we do over the summer to keep up the Spanish learning?” “What are some fun ways to practice our language at […]
Creating Community with Kids in a Minority Language
How can you build community around your minority language? Bilingual parenting can feel like a lonely path at times. I know it has for me, especially as a non-native Spanish speaker trying to teach my children a language that we rarely hear in our small Midwest community. Yet finding opportunities in which my children and I […]
Raising Our Bilingual Kids Using the Time & Place Strategy
If you joined me with my kids today, you’d hear some catchy Spanish songs like “Veo Veo” or “Chocolalala” that would undoubtedly get stuck in your head. We’d chat together in Spanish as we drew or wrote stories, played in the backyard, and made dinner. You’d definitely listen to some new Spanish books – maybe […]
How to Raise Bilingual Children: Family Language Plans
Teaching a child more than one language is an invaluable gift. There are countless lifetime benefits to being bilingual! If you are just getting started with bilingual parenting, you should know that there are many valuable strategies – or family language plans – for raising bilingual kids. Where do you start when you have decided […]
10 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Reading Motivation
Ideas to improve your child’s daily independent reading time Do your kids need some help staying on track during their daily reading routine? Perhaps you have new readers who are practicing each day, or your kids have reading homework to do for school. As a bilingual teacher turned full-time mom of three, I know that […]
Language Learning with Kids in the Kitchen
Today I’m sharing interactive ideas for incorporating language learning around the theme of food and cooking with kids. Whether you’re teaching your child a second language, learning a new language together at home, or want to foster your child’s first language development, there’s so much vocabulary and language learning that can be done through the […]
50 Positive Affirmations to Tell Your Child – in Spanish & English
With a free printable in both languages “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” Parenting specialist Peggy O’Mara once wrote these impactful words and her quote resonates with me as a teacher and as a parent. Our words have so much power to influence how our children feel about themselves and […]