10 Ways to Add Foreign Language to Your Morning Basket

10 Ways to Add Foreign Language to Your Morning Basket

Including foreign languages in your morning basket is a great way to ensure daily practice and help your homeschool students improve their listening and speaking abilities. But how to do it? I’ve got 10 ideas that I’m sharing today to help you keep your practice varied and exciting!

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Helpful Tips for the Latin Trip (Guest Post)

Helpful Tips for the Latin Trip (Guest Post)

If you’re a homeschool mom teaching and/or learning Latin alongside your children, you’ll find deep encouragement and a kindred spirit in today’s guest post, written by the lovely Angela Reed. An experienced Classics teacher and homeschooling mom-of-five, Angela offers us her best tips for how to study this ancient language without overwhelm.

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Celebrating Poetry Teatime in a Foreign Language

Celebrating Poetry Teatime in a Foreign Language

Do you currently celebrate Poetry Teatime in your house? We do--and it's a great tool for infusing joy into your homeschool language learning! Read my tips today for how to do Poetry Teatime in a foreign language in your home (without pulling your hair out). 

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Charlotte Mason and Language Learning: The Habit of Memorizing

Charlotte Mason and Language Learning: The Habit of Memorizing

Charlotte Mason believed in the power of memorization to shape children's minds, and so do many homeschoolers today. If you're looking to combine memory work with foreign language learning in your homeschool, look no further--I've got some practical suggestions right here that Miss Mason would appreciate.

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Language Learning and Charlotte Mason: The Habit of Mental Effort

Language Learning and Charlotte Mason: The Habit of Mental Effort

As homeschooling families, we all want our children to learn to work hard--to exercise the habit that Charlotte Mason called "mental effort." In today's post, I consider how language learning offers a unique opportunity for homeschoolers to develop this essential habit.

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Language Learning and Charlotte Mason: Forming the Habit of Attention

Language Learning and Charlotte Mason: Forming the Habit of Attention

Have you been influenced by Charlotte Mason's ideas in your homeschool? Are you focused on habit formation in your children? Hear my thoughts about how language learning helps children develop what Miss Mason called "the habit of attention" and how kids can apply this habit to their study of other academic subjects.

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