I learned Spanish in early elementary school, beginning in the first grade. I remember that my teacher had shown us slides from her trip to Mexico and something about oeuvres. I can still count to ten in Spanish.
So can my children! When we began homeschooling last September, I wanted to start Greek. I ordered Hey, Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek! – The Reader from Amazon. It goes through the Greek alphabet and has pictures of four-year-old Andrew doing funny poses to mimic the letters. The kids loved it! They are both able to name most of the letters by sight.
However; this year, I want their foreign language skills to start moving beyond letters and into something conversational. My husband and I decided that Spanish would be the most beneficial. Besides counting to ten, they also know most of their colors and some directional words. I am just having trouble finding a program for them. I don’t want to use Rosetta Stone because costs and the other preschool programs that I checked into were out of our budget.
Does anyone have suggestions for a nice online program for young children?
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Actually, I reviewed a Spanish program for young kids earlier this year, and they have added a homeschool curriculum component to it now. I don’t usually leave links in the body of a comment, but since you did ask for suggestions, I hope you don’t mind my leaving a link to my review.
http://homeschoolingdisneystyle.com/2011/06/02/we-speekee-do-you/
We liked it enough to stick with the program after the review trial was over. Unless the cost has changed, it is $7.50 per month.
My kids enjoy Spanish too, and I haven’t yet found a program that is user friendly and affordable either. There are many free resources online though.
We started Rosetta Stone TOTALe for foreign language (doing French and Italian) and not to sound like a testimonial, but we love it. The whole family is doing it and the whole program is great. Well worth the pricetag! Love the picture of the hike! Stopping by from HMJ. Hope you will stop by, Katie