Spanish for Sophie

The following guest post introduces an interesting approach to learning Spanish: 

 Authored by Leandro Delgado

I wanted to teach my daughter a second language, Spanish, so that she could communicate with my side of the family, which was from Mexico. She is only four and it definitely makes sense to teach her now while she’s so absorbent so I signed us up for clear wireless internet so we could start taking Spanish tutorials together online. She has a private tutor who speaks with her via webcam once a week and the other days she does lessons on her own, usually in some type of game or cartoon which she finds really fun and stimulating. She’s picking Spanish up so quickly, I can’t believe it, and pretty soon she&r! squo;ll be speaking it better than I do! She can already pronounce many of the vocabulary words from items in our home and she’s loving the online tutor. He’s in Mexico and we’ve all agreed to meet up the next time I go home to visit my family, which should be lots of fun. I’m glad I started her young and hopefully she’ll thank me!

Homeschool Blogging A-Z: M is for Money

Whether your child is in public school, private school, or homeschool, they will encounter Algebra, Geometry, Trig, and/or calculus.  In learning all of that math, let us not forget the most important math of all.  Money.

A child should learn how to count money, multiply and divide money, determine cost per unit, and much more.  Let's not forget to learn about banking, interest, credit, and investments too. 

I am only pointing it out because I almost neglected to teach financial math myself.  My kid had to ask for it.  Don't send them out into the world unprepared.


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Getting Ready for Homeschool Graduation

Homeschool Graduation for my kids homeschool program is this coming weekend.  No.  My kids are not graduating this year, but as the parent of a Junior who will graduate next year, (gasp) I have responsibilities in the graduation of the seniors.  I have chosen the job of decorating.  

I love decorating for events.  For this particular event, we are doing a black and white theme... very classy.  We are creating feature walls, and putting balloon bouquets on the tables. The bouquets will be personalized so that graduates can take them home as a souvenir. 

I wish I had thought about getting personalized items sooner as I would have incorporated them into the design.  I could have emblazoned the name of our homeschool program or "homeschool graduation 2011" across all kinds of items from pens to custom mugs.  But Alas, I thought of it too late.

Fortunately, I set up and decorate for lots of events.  So I will be keeping this idea in my back pocket, I can use these cool items not only for decorations, but also for souvenirs for the kids, or church members involved in whatever program I am decorating for. 


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'Unique Child' Study seeks participants

This is collecting stories from parents whose children are exceptional in any way. Please see letter below: 

We are researchers at Columbia University's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences studying how children who are unique in some way are identified and developed. We are currently collecting stories from parents with children who have been identified as gifted, children who have unique artistic, scientific, or physical abilities, children on the autism spectrum, and children who have been identified as having attention disorders.

While all children are unique, the goal of our study is to identify how children with unique developmental abilities or trajectories develop over early childhood. Parents have different experiences and observations of their child's development and they have different personal resources with which they access services or programs. Parents also differ in the type and extent of their support networks and social relations. And finally, parents make different decisions when finding the right academic, extra-curricular, or other placements for their children. We would like to give parents the chance to tell their stories. Survey responses will help us understand the experiences of unique children as well as their development over time.

We are collecting stories of parents of unique children through an online, semi-structured survey: http://uniquechildstudy.org.

Leave a comment if you plan on participating.

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