Do you ever feel like dinner time is just a chaotic race to get everyone fed before someone starts a food fight? Well, what if I told you that you could turn those mealtime moments into a fun Spanish-learning adventure? That’s right! With just a little creativity (and maybe some bribery in the form of dessert), your family can practice Spanish while chowing down.
Read More »Turning Dinner Time into Spanish Time!
If you’ve ever thought, I’d love for my child to learn Spanish, but I don’t speak a word of it!—you’re not alone. Many parents worry that not knowing the language themselves means they can’t effectively support their child’s learning. The good news? You absolutely can! Language learning isn’t just about what happens in a lesson; it’s about creating an environment where Spanish is a fun and natural part of your child’s day. Here’s how you can help – even if the only Spanish word you know is hola!
Read More »You Don’t Need to Speak Spanish to Help Your Child Learn It!A great introduction to Spanish for young children is to create a “Todo Sobre Mi” (all about me) lapbook in which the children can include:… Read More »Todo Sobre Mi – Lapbooking
Wowzers! Here it is folks…my concluding post about the Speekee Accelerate Programme. What a journey we have been on with this – it’s been ¡fantástico!
If you’ve only just joined us, worry not as at the end of this post you will find links to the blog posts covering our year-long Spanish learning programme with the Speekee Accelerate Programme.Read More »The Speekee® Accelerate Programme: An OnLine Spanish course for kids!
Weeks 33 & 34
This unit covers restaurants and is mainly about food and drink. We set up a restaurant and gave it a name. Then used the workseets for some role play. We used the following vocabulary:
¿Qué quieres para beber?” (What do you want to drink?)
“Gracias” (Thank you) replying with “De nada” (You are welcome).Read More »Speekee® Accelerate Review: Weeks 33 – 36
Weeks 27 & 28
Audio files have now been added to the entire programme which is great as it gives additional listening practice to each video.
As a change to the previous videos, week 27 is a silent movie about being in a fairground. We discussed the different types of rides, which are our favourites and which go “rapidamente”, “arriba” and “abajo”. We set up an obstacle course at home to practice the words “arriba” “abajo” in Spanish. Read More »Speekee® Accelerate Review: Weeks 27 – 32
Weeks 23 & 24 were fun to do…all about musical instruments! We started off looking at the different musical instruments on the worksheets and talked about what they are and asked ¿Qué instrumento es? (What instrument is it?). The lesson evolved and before we knew it the children we playing and tuning the ukulele!
This is one of the things I love about Home Education – seeing the children’s Spanish learning-journey evolving with them – there are no limits to where they can take it. Read More »Speekee® Accelerate Review: Weeks 23 & 24
Using the vocabulary learnt in the last unit I prepared a shopping list in Spanish with 10 items that the children had to find in our local supermarket. It was a race and the first one back to me with all the correct items in their basket was the winner. Read More »Speekee® Accelerate Review: Supermarket Scavenger Hunt
Units for weeks 21 & 22 are all about animals!
For week 21 we spent time talking about our different animals and which are our favourite, forming questions like “¿Cúal es tu animal favorito?” (What is your favorite animal?). We also played a game of animal charades which was fun! Read More »Speekee® Accelerate Review: Weeks 21 & 22
