Spanish??

[MistyP]

Any recommendations for Spanish for 5 yo & 6 yo? We live in South Florida and would like to learn Spanish. I would like to add it in 2-3 days a week.

Thanks!!

[dale1088]

I have heard that La Clase Divertida is very good. I think it's about $110 retail though, so...

This year I went to the homeschool store and got a workbook (there are lots) and we are just going to work on those, and get the Spanish/English books that the library has. I will also try to be casual and conversational with them (I know just enough to be dangerous). I think at the young ages your girls are, you can just start out slow with naming objects in spanish, colors, numbers, etc. KWIM?

[playschool]

We will be trying The Easy Spanish. They have a junior version for smaller children as well as one that could span up to Junior High or Highschool. Because I have older children, we will be using the one geared for those ages.

[Dixie]

Misty,

There is a new program out that is called Getting Started With Spanish. I have not used the program, but my son is using their Latin program and is enjoying it.

http://gettingstartedwithspanish.com/

[moedertje]

I purchased "La Clase Divertida" (The Fun Class) at convention this year for about $100.00. We just started it this week with my ds6, ds4 and dd2 year old. It is fun! There are crafts and cooking involved. You learn a little about the Mexican culture in the level 1 kit. It is probably great for your dc's age group. For children 10 and up it might be a little too juvenile.
There is a DVD and practice CD. It's not the most professionally video taped, but the kids don't seem to mind. I have two friends who purchased the same program, so we made a little co-op for doing the crafts and cooking together.
My kids enjoyed it and even 2 year old is repeating after me and want say the vowels on her own. We are planning on taking 3 weeks for each lesson. There are 15 lessons.
I had 2 years of Castillian Spanish, being from South-America and it's all coming back, this is a great start for the little ones. I'm excited!
Here is the link to check it out: https://funclase.com/Level_1.html

[MistyP]

Thanks!!

[jenntracy]

check out www.bocabeth.com . she has some great products for young ones and she is always giving great info about other stuff she has heard about. she will answer emails fairly quickly. For instance, i asked her what dictionary she found the most helpful in all her teaching and she wrote back and told me . she is out of Tampa Florida . she sends out at least one email a week with cute videos on Youtube that she has done in various places with children.

i have got to get better at implenting Spanish around our home. it is written on our schedule and somehow it is the last thing to get done. i think doing a little bit every day is what is best. when you don't use it, ya lose it. so now i need to take my own advice and get the ball rolling. One day we were painting and i chose 5 words that were going with our activity and we reviewed them later.
i have been blessed to get usborne's first 11 spanish words and usbourne's first thousand spanish wordss both for only $1 each at Goodwill.(What a find) i love the pictures for me and the ease of looking up words that we come across everyday. We also have some flashcards. i would have to look up who the maker of those are.

Happy Hunting
Jenn D.

[MistyP]

Misty,

There is a new program out that is called Getting Started With Spanish. I have not used the program, but my son is using their Latin program and is enjoying it.

http://gettingstartedwithspanish.com/

I just referred a friend to that Latin program We are hoping to start Latin in the next year or two.