Teaching your child a foreign language is one of the most daunting (and most overwhelming!) endeavors one can attempt as a parent of a toddler... or child of any age.
Spanish for Children resources are sometimes too advanced, sometimes too silly, sometimes just plain boring... but Flip n Flop Learning overcomes all that by basing language acquisition on your relationship with your child, as well as fun, proven activities!
ABOUT Señora Gose...
The author is a happily married, former Texas Public School Teacher, current Private Lessons teacher, small business owner, and mother of five children.
Señora Gose lives in Central Texas with her husband and growing family of five children. She enjoys teaching her weekly Spanish classes, supporting homeschool endeavors of the community in any way possible, and keeping a happy, well-organized home.
Her priorities begin with striving to be a godly wife and mother, and are followed by teaching and tutoring all ages of Spanish students, reading and writing Spanish lesson plans (and compiling future workbooks!), and continually making her home more efficient as she strives to follow the Lord’s Will in all that she does.
Ongoing Endeavors...
Sra. Gose includes Spanish in her every day life through music, television, conversation at the local grocery store, and of course reading, writing, and teaching. Currently, she and her family are taking on the challenge of acquiring German as a third language!
Living in Texas, it is not a difficult task to find opportunities to keep increasing Spanish vocabulary and practicing to stay up to date on the local slang, idioms, or simply invented "Texican" or "Tex-Mex" words for our region.
Simply remember, language teachers are not immune from the "use it or lose it" adage. Practice your Spanish words every opportunity you have in order to train your brain to accept new vocabulary and grammar rules with more ease.
From Sra. Gose, a weekly private lesson Spanish teacher, and author of Flip Flop Spanish Workbook you can go along for the ride as she posts class journals - what happens in classes, Spanish teaching tips, and just fun anecdotes about homeschooling and teaching Spanish to children.
Her classes don't have state guidelines, so the children simply get to learn what they need to know to communicate and succeed!
Click here to go to the Flip Flop Spanish Blog.
For even more insight, you can access Señora Gose's weekly column on The Homeschool Blogger entitled
Languishing in Languages ?
which explains, in separate series, how different ages learn a second language, as well as how to teach based on your students' learning styles and many more encouraging tips.