I decided to spice up my daughter’s reading journey! If learning to read was not hard enough, I had to be extra and sprinkle in some Spanish. I have been preparing for this for a while and really did not know when was the best time to start, the best method, etc! I have learned […]
When my daughter was a baby, I was really into the Rockabye Baby albums. These are lullaby versions of popular music and I had the Michael Jackson, Rihanna, and Jay Z ones. One problem, I would always get the actual songs stuck in my head. I would sing them all day, which was not a […]
March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate I bought the wonderful book, LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez. My little latinita was excited to get a book that celebrated Latinas like her and had even more fun reading some words in Spanish and Portuguese. The book is primarily written in English but […]
Julio C. Tello was a famous Indigenous Peruvian Archaeologist and is known as the founder of modern Peruvian archaeology. This national icon is the subject of the wonderful picture book SHARUKO: EL ARQUEOLOGO PERUANO JULIO C. TELLO/ PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGIST JULIO C. TELLO by Monica Brown and Illustrated by Elisa Chavarri. It is biographical picture book […]
If you follow me on Instagram, I took my little guy for a Nature Walk this morning and was inspired to share some fall/nature inspired words in Spanish! Check my story on Instagram to see my nature work toddler style before it deletes! So, here are a few pictorial words that remind me of Fall […]
Hello! I love to make mixes for my kids out of music that I enjoy to jamming to! However, the music that I love is not always G rated lol. So, I make remixes for them! Here is a quick way to learn some Spanish numbers with Pitbull! The tune is catchy and anybody will […]
Hola! Felicidades!! Or Hello! I have created coloring sheets for the letters A-H. When I started going over letters with my daughter, I didn’t go through all 26 at once. I broke them down into a few letters at a time. Most of these commands, I say on a day to day basis, over and […]
I 💜Music! And I especially love to dance. Sometimes I tell my daughter “sometimes you just have to get lost in the groove” which she eloquently displayed recently at a museum gift shop. 🙈😂 She was just dancing to their background music and told me “I am moving my body to the groove”. So, I […]
Hey! I am back with another installment of Hip Hop Learning! And this one is doubly special because we are learning Spanish too! So, let’s learn some Spanish Vowel sounds and be serenaded by Miguel (win-win, right?) Check out the video! Did you hear the *bonus* vowel sound in English? That helps show how the […]
Hey! So, I realized that my Spanish commands coloring sheets are awesome (and I will finish the complete the rest of the alphabet soon…. Spanish Commands Coloring Sheet) just in case you missed them lol) BUT……. I was getting ahead of myself lol. I should have started with the BASICS… the Alphabet (or abecedario). So, I […]