What Happened to Bilingual Homeschool?

I am consistently surprised at the number of page views this blog gets considering I haven't posted in quite awhile.  I apologize for my lack of consistency.  The reason I haven't posted is because we haven't been doing much with Spanish lately.  C hasn't been very interested.  I haven't made any printables because I'm afraid they won't be used.  I still want to get some Spanish learning into our day but I need to come up with a new way to do it.

Transportation Theme Continued!

Welcome to my first linky post!  I am excited to share more ideas for our transportation theme from this week.  In case you missed my last post, I have created some printables for incorporating Spanish into our transportation theme.

The printables from my last post can be downloaded by clicking on the image.

Unfortunately, I do not have photos of us using the printables yet!  I have to get into a habit of photographing our school time.  She was very excited when she saw we were doing a transportation theme and couldn't wait to get started!

Caitlyn loves searching for flash cards as I call out "Donde esta..." and name an item.  She is really into patterning right now so I made some transportation pattern cards.  I encourage Spanish as often as possible as we do our activities.  We start out with a few simple patterns - Rojo, Verde, Rojo, Verde - and progress to harder patterns.  It is hard to come up with a pattern that is a challenge for her anymore but she loves making patterns so we continue to practice! I suggest laminating the pattern cards cutting out blank tables and taping them together to create base for your tot to lay out their patterns. If you would like the pattern card printables, they can be downloaded by clicking on the image.

I hope you find these printables useful for your family!  

Thank you so much for visiting Joy Focused Learning.

Spanish Transportation Printables

I am very excited to share my first printables with you!  I plan to do a transportation theme in our Bilingual Homeschool for the week of 9/30/12.  I hope you find these printables useful for your family!

  When I do flash cards I usually go over them once or twice with C and then I lay them out on the floor and ask, "Donde esta...." ("Where is....) and name an item.  Usually she has a blast running or jumping to the item called out.  You can also print two sets of the cards and use it as a match game.  Click on the image for a link to download.  Click on an image below for a link to download the Bilingual Transportation Pack.  There are flash cards, an easy reader and pattern cards. 

 

Welcome to Bilingual Homeschool

Hello and welcome to Bilingual Homeschool.  In my own experience homeschooling my daughter I have struggled to find great resources for teaching Spanish that were in my price range.  It is very important to me that she becomes fluent in Spanish because her father's side of the family is hispanic and speaks Spanish fluently.

After searching the web and coming up empty handed, I decided to create my own resources! When I set about to create activities for her I realized that if I was going to do all this work, I might as well share it with others!   Hopefully you find my blog and it is of use to you.

I know that there are multiple dialects of Spanish.  All of the resources I plan to create will be based on the dialect my in laws speak.  I plan to post most of our homeschool activities not only activities involving Spanish.  Thank you so much for visiting my blog!  I will be posting printables very soon!