As I have mentioned a few times before, I am a long-time fan of Highlights and their magazines. It started when I was a child. I clearly remember being excited whenever I would see the latest issue of Highlights magazine in a waiting room. I would devour it from cover to cover. Now, my son has the chance to fall in love with them. For the past several months, he has been receiving their Puzzle Buzz magazine and loves them!
Tag: Homeschool
As I have mentioned many times, it is my desire and goal that Christian and I both become at least conversational in another language. I think that it is an important skill and one that will become even more critical as time goes on. That’s why I always jump at the opportunity to try out one language acquisition programs. Over the past year or so, we have been lucky enough to try quite a few products from a company called Whistlefritz.
Out of all of the products that Christian and I have been able to review, this is definitely in his top 3 as far as what he gets excited about. I am so glad to have come across it. Actually, I suppose I will tell you guys about that first.
You see…I homeschool Christian. I suppose that at this point it can’t officially be called homeschooling since he isn’t yet school age, but that’s just a technicality.
Whistlefritz has done it again! I am seriously so impressed with this company and their line of products. They make exposing your child to different language fun with their immersive language techniques. As you guys may know, I homeschool my son and am intent on him learning multiple languages — namely Spanish and French. However, I am not fluent in either so I am having to use a variety of resources to teach him.
Tomorrow will be Christian’s first official day of homeschooling. I have decided on a core curriculum that will cover letters, numbers, shapes, and colors. These are all things that we have been working on already. He recognizes all of the common colors (red,blue, green, yellow, black, grey, purple, orange, brown, and pink) and shapes (square, rectangle, circle, oval, heart, triangle, square). He can even draw a few of the shapes (not perfectly,