I saw the units on the website and they looked better for us as we speak German so my younger kids hear it daily and are naturally learning stuff!!! I downloaded the sample of level one and knew that it was review!!! I love the idea of labelling rooms!!!
Im a new subscriber , love your content 🤍🤍been stressing on what curriculum to get for my 3 year old and soon to be 2 they love books , we learn through play as well and love activities what curriculum do you think is best for us ? I’ve like the idea of prescholar since it has fall , spring etc , but I’m indecisive between llamitas , prescholar and beautiful mundo 😅 I love simple I’m a virtual learner as well as my kids are
Are they native/dominant Spanish speakers? Puramente Preescolar is a gentle, simple, play-based preschool curriculum which includes book recommendations. It focuses on a certain theme for a week--and it's easy to add on to if you want to do more. It doesn't focus strongly on the alphabet, because it's very focused on YOUNG preschoolers, the 3 year olds. The Llamitas preschool binder might be a good addition if you want to focus on learning alphabet sounds and numbers. Beautiful Mundo is probably the more complicated option out of those. They aren't really designed as a preschool curriculum so much as a Spanish curriculum for early elementary, but you could adapt it. One option is to simply look at their booklist for book ideas--some of the books on their booklist get rather long/complex for those ages, but many of them are fantastic. They don't really have preschool activity ideas, the main activity is to narrate or summarize each book and draw a picture of it as you create a notebook about the books you read--which is an excellent practice in learning, but would be pretty challenging for 2/3 year olds. I would lean toward saving that for when they are older.
@@SevenInAll yes we are native Spanish speakers we speak mostly Spanish in our household the only time we speak English is if me and my kids dad are having a conversation with each other but we mostly speak to the kids in Spanish well they are bilingual they understand both
Hey! Thanks for all the spanish curriculum videos. We just moved to the DR and I need to find a homeschool curriculum to teach my 14 and 11 year old boys spanish! Which one do you recommend for those ages where they need to learn it to converse in this country but do not know hardly anything yet? Thank you
Normally, once getting to the teens/high school age range I would recommend a more "traditional" curriculum for those who want to focus on bookwork/credits...but in all honesty, in your case, I would strongly consider Homeschool Languages curriculum (Level 1 if starting from not knowing anything), even though they are older. The reason why is because Homeschool Languages is so strongly focused on conversational Spanish and on getting kids talking, and the games being used throughout the lessons are very similar or identical to the conversation games my husband uses in his classes (he teaches high school Spanish). Because even if you're older...we all become "little kids" again when learning to speak a new language. (I will always remember my college language professor 'driving' a Barbie car around the classroom to teach us how to say 'turn left' and 'turn right'). So that might fit your need of focusing on quickly gaining conversational skills to get around your new home. I do think that you would adapt a few things when using Homeschool Languages with older kids--not using the puppet, adapting some of the games to be more challenging, etc. And I do think that older kids would progress faster and grasp the concepts faster than younger kids. By the end of level 1 and 2, they will have mastered a hefty amount of Spanish conversational skills. Here's my video on level 1: ruclips.net/video/X-QHLYd5zYI/видео.htmlsi=rta1fLM6gZ4OoOJJ and level 2: ruclips.net/video/gkr2I2IgnH0/видео.htmlsi=FEs8vvRNUboKgmys
@@SevenInAll Thank you! I went ahead and bought both. They already know a bit of the first several lessons so I figured we could rush through those and then get to the ones they dont do! : )
Hi Rachel. Which curriculum do you recommend for a family whom speak Spanish and what to learn English in the way you do with Spanish? Because there many language arts english curriculum but everything is in English so I wish if one of them, give the instructions in Spanish so I can understand what to do, as Llamita
@@etzel4159 I don't know of a Llamitas - style curriculum for learning English LA. Some of the online curriculums for learning vocabulary/conversation do have English versions -- The Cultured Kid, which is for kids under 8, and Rosetta Stone, for older kids, they both have English programs. But those are more for conversational English, not academics. You might be able to look for workbooks designed for Spanish speakers who are wanting to prepare an English proficiency test--sometimes those will have instructions in Spanish explaining the rules and then exercises. I'm sorry, I don't have a brand to recommend.
Thanks for you. You might do one, one day. My son which is diagnostic with Autism L1, learn to read with your Aventuras del Abecedario. I Just say thanks God and the curriculum that you did with your family. He loves the songs and story. By his 4 I did t know about the diagnostic, i Just wanted to try teach him the inicial sounds, he finished it. Then he was diagnosticated, so others (doctors and Therapistics) recommended me the global method. The first day, with a Montesorri book, he read ALL the words and I realized that he already knew how to read while we were doing your curriculum. God blessed your family. Think about doing a curriculum for Spanish speakers to learn and teach young homeschoolers children English.
I’m so overwhelmed with teaching a language. I know almost nothing in Spanish but want my children to learn early. Is it a lot of work per day? Will it be overwhelming along with new homeschool in general? I just don’t want to give too much work to my newbies. And I don’t know if it’s a simple program for someone who knows NOTHING. Ahhh, help!
Hi! Have you seen my video on getting started teaching a 2nd language in your homeschool? Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/YGSvuzZiEoM/видео.htmlsi=euDgjEF3Ouy99v1u Also, you might want to check out my detailed video on Homeschool Languages Spanish level 1, which is my top recommendation for families who are just getting started with Spanish when parents DON'T already speak the language: ruclips.net/video/X-QHLYd5zYI/видео.htmlsi=J5i450FD5J6buBHR Homeschool Languages Level 1 is a great program for basic beginners--but parents WILL have to learn alongside their kids (i.e. you may not know any Spanish now, but you will be learning the vocab words and phrases right alongside your kids as you go). With just getting started, I would focus more on doing small, short, consistent language sessions vs. investing huge amounts of time. 10 or 15 minutes as part of homeschool morning time will yield great fruit when it happens consistently. I'm definitely here to cheer you on and offer any practical suggestions that I can. Language skills are so incredibly valuable and practical for life, and I truly believe that they are worth the work that goes into developing them.
Thank you for such a detailed response!! I must have missed that one. Thank you for ALL of you inspiring videos, we are so excited to use curious kinder this year!! I sooo appreciate you!!
BRB while we post this on our site 😍We get this question so often and you answered it so perfectly!! Also you are so right when you said this: "Language learning isn't like climbing a mountain where you're always going up, its actually a wide endeavor where we're just gradually trying to widen our vocabulary knowledge into different routines, different areas, different topics, and keep learning and gaining mastery." Just perfect!
I have had this question many times already so I'm glad to share some direction here. And yes, I know that we can get overly concerned with levels and with progress, but that's not quite how language learning works. We do make progress...but it doesn't always look like direct forward motion.
@@shannonglonek835 We have local print shops that print very inexpensively in black and white, so if I need to print a lot, like long workbooks, and they can be black and white, I just have them printed at the local shop to save me the hassle. But color printing at a print shop is more expensive, it's far more affordable to use my ecotank, so when something needs to be in color I print at home.
This looks great
They are!
I saw the units on the website and they looked better for us as we speak German so my younger kids hear it daily and are naturally learning stuff!!! I downloaded the sample of level one and knew that it was review!!! I love the idea of labelling rooms!!!
These units are so fun and practical for expanding vocabulary!
Im a new subscriber , love your content 🤍🤍been stressing on what curriculum to get for my 3 year old and soon to be 2 they love books , we learn through play as well and love activities what curriculum do you think is best for us ? I’ve like the idea of prescholar since it has fall , spring etc , but I’m indecisive between llamitas , prescholar and beautiful mundo 😅 I love simple I’m a virtual learner as well as my kids are
Are they native/dominant Spanish speakers? Puramente Preescolar is a gentle, simple, play-based preschool curriculum which includes book recommendations. It focuses on a certain theme for a week--and it's easy to add on to if you want to do more. It doesn't focus strongly on the alphabet, because it's very focused on YOUNG preschoolers, the 3 year olds.
The Llamitas preschool binder might be a good addition if you want to focus on learning alphabet sounds and numbers.
Beautiful Mundo is probably the more complicated option out of those. They aren't really designed as a preschool curriculum so much as a Spanish curriculum for early elementary, but you could adapt it. One option is to simply look at their booklist for book ideas--some of the books on their booklist get rather long/complex for those ages, but many of them are fantastic. They don't really have preschool activity ideas, the main activity is to narrate or summarize each book and draw a picture of it as you create a notebook about the books you read--which is an excellent practice in learning, but would be pretty challenging for 2/3 year olds. I would lean toward saving that for when they are older.
@@SevenInAll yes we are native Spanish speakers we speak mostly Spanish in our household the only time we speak English is if me and my kids dad are having a conversation with each other but we mostly speak to the kids in Spanish well they are bilingual they understand both
Hey! Thanks for all the spanish curriculum videos. We just moved to the DR and I need to find a homeschool curriculum to teach my 14 and 11 year old boys spanish! Which one do you recommend for those ages where they need to learn it to converse in this country but do not know hardly anything yet? Thank you
Normally, once getting to the teens/high school age range I would recommend a more "traditional" curriculum for those who want to focus on bookwork/credits...but in all honesty, in your case, I would strongly consider Homeschool Languages curriculum (Level 1 if starting from not knowing anything), even though they are older. The reason why is because Homeschool Languages is so strongly focused on conversational Spanish and on getting kids talking, and the games being used throughout the lessons are very similar or identical to the conversation games my husband uses in his classes (he teaches high school Spanish). Because even if you're older...we all become "little kids" again when learning to speak a new language. (I will always remember my college language professor 'driving' a Barbie car around the classroom to teach us how to say 'turn left' and 'turn right'). So that might fit your need of focusing on quickly gaining conversational skills to get around your new home.
I do think that you would adapt a few things when using Homeschool Languages with older kids--not using the puppet, adapting some of the games to be more challenging, etc. And I do think that older kids would progress faster and grasp the concepts faster than younger kids. By the end of level 1 and 2, they will have mastered a hefty amount of Spanish conversational skills.
Here's my video on level 1: ruclips.net/video/X-QHLYd5zYI/видео.htmlsi=rta1fLM6gZ4OoOJJ
and level 2: ruclips.net/video/gkr2I2IgnH0/видео.htmlsi=FEs8vvRNUboKgmys
@@SevenInAll Thank you! I went ahead and bought both. They already know a bit of the first several lessons so I figured we could rush through those and then get to the ones they dont do! : )
Hi Rachel. Which curriculum do you recommend for a family whom speak Spanish and what to learn English in the way you do with Spanish? Because there many language arts english curriculum but everything is in English so I wish if one of them, give the instructions in Spanish so I can understand what to do, as Llamita
@@etzel4159 I don't know of a Llamitas - style curriculum for learning English LA. Some of the online curriculums for learning vocabulary/conversation do have English versions -- The Cultured Kid, which is for kids under 8, and Rosetta Stone, for older kids, they both have English programs. But those are more for conversational English, not academics. You might be able to look for workbooks designed for Spanish speakers who are wanting to prepare an English proficiency test--sometimes those will have instructions in Spanish explaining the rules and then exercises. I'm sorry, I don't have a brand to recommend.
Thanks for you. You might do one, one day. My son which is diagnostic with Autism L1, learn to read with your Aventuras del Abecedario. I Just say thanks God and the curriculum that you did with your family. He loves the songs and story. By his 4 I did t know about the diagnostic, i Just wanted to try teach him the inicial sounds, he finished it. Then he was diagnosticated, so others (doctors and Therapistics) recommended me the global method. The first day, with a Montesorri book, he read ALL the words and I realized that he already knew how to read while we were doing your curriculum. God blessed your family. Think about doing a curriculum for Spanish speakers to learn and teach young homeschoolers children English.
I’m so overwhelmed with teaching a language. I know almost nothing in Spanish but want my children to learn early. Is it a lot of work per day? Will it be overwhelming along with new homeschool in general? I just don’t want to give too much work to my newbies. And I don’t know if it’s a simple program for someone who knows NOTHING. Ahhh, help!
Hi!
Have you seen my video on getting started teaching a 2nd language in your homeschool? Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/YGSvuzZiEoM/видео.htmlsi=euDgjEF3Ouy99v1u
Also, you might want to check out my detailed video on Homeschool Languages Spanish level 1, which is my top recommendation for families who are just getting started with Spanish when parents DON'T already speak the language: ruclips.net/video/X-QHLYd5zYI/видео.htmlsi=J5i450FD5J6buBHR
Homeschool Languages Level 1 is a great program for basic beginners--but parents WILL have to learn alongside their kids (i.e. you may not know any Spanish now, but you will be learning the vocab words and phrases right alongside your kids as you go).
With just getting started, I would focus more on doing small, short, consistent language sessions vs. investing huge amounts of time. 10 or 15 minutes as part of homeschool morning time will yield great fruit when it happens consistently.
I'm definitely here to cheer you on and offer any practical suggestions that I can. Language skills are so incredibly valuable and practical for life, and I truly believe that they are worth the work that goes into developing them.
Thank you for such a detailed response!! I must have missed that one. Thank you for ALL of you inspiring videos, we are so excited to use curious kinder this year!! I sooo appreciate you!!
@@charityarn2024 Oh, I'm so excited to hear that you're using Curious Kinder! I hope you have a blast!
BRB while we post this on our site 😍We get this question so often and you answered it so perfectly!!
Also you are so right when you said this: "Language learning isn't like climbing a mountain where you're always going up, its actually a wide endeavor where we're just gradually trying to widen our vocabulary knowledge into different routines, different areas, different topics, and keep learning and gaining mastery." Just perfect!
I have had this question many times already so I'm glad to share some direction here. And yes, I know that we can get overly concerned with levels and with progress, but that's not quite how language learning works. We do make progress...but it doesn't always look like direct forward motion.
Where do you get your pages printed?
@@shannonglonek835 I printed these at home. I have an ecotank printer that comes in very handy for homeschool.
@@SevenInAll thank you! I’ve looked at those printers. Do you find it more economical to print everything yourself?
@@shannonglonek835 We have local print shops that print very inexpensively in black and white, so if I need to print a lot, like long workbooks, and they can be black and white, I just have them printed at the local shop to save me the hassle. But color printing at a print shop is more expensive, it's far more affordable to use my ecotank, so when something needs to be in color I print at home.