Hi! I’m Sarah. I’m so glad you’re here! Make yourself cozy, because I hope to be chatting a lot with you in my online "home." I'm wife to a Brazilian soccer coach and mama to two precious, bilingual boys. We live internationally and speak multiple languages in our home. If you ask my family where we are from, you might hear a little hesitant pause as we debate how to condense a lifetime of story down into a two-second answer. (Do we say the USA? That would only be about a third true. Brazil? Same deal. Thailand? Asia? Do we share that our families include in-laws from Europe and South America?) We are on a journey to nurture our family at home and abroad--wherever we live. Here, you will find bilingual homeschool (bilingual family) experiences, preschool ideas, book/resource reviews, and homeschool tips and community--all with a bit of travel and expat life thrown in. **Be sure to introduce yourself in the comments when you join me for a video. I always love connecting with you!**
Hi, I am an Australian living in Italy with my Italian husband and two kids. We will be embarking on our homeschooling journey next year with my eldest turning 5 in a few months. My biggest question is, even when using an online/digital curriculum, how does one source all the reading materials? I know for example Blossom and Root is available digitally but is based heavily on personally source the books to read. I worry I won't be able to find the books here in english and it would be extremely expensive to have to purchase all of the literature required. Thanks
I need a tribute to the North American Little Golden Book, the Mother Goose book that had Hey Diddle Diddle located on the front cover and the page that had Humpty Dumpty/Humpty Alexander Dumpty getting scared of falling off the wall by sitting on the wall in balances.
Hi, just came across your channel yesterday! I'm Brazilian and my husband is American, and I do try to speak in Portuguese most of the time with our 2 kids (4 and 2 years old). I find that Brazil unfortunately falls very behind on books and good quality music for children, so I do allow them to have screen time to practice more the Portuguese and I was thrilled to find Daniel Tiger in Portuguese here on RU-vid. Do you have any recommendations on books/music in Portuguese (especially appropriate ones)? Thank you and God bless you and your family!
É como diz o ditado: o Brasil não é mesmo para amadores!!! hahahaha Just found out about your channel, and really enjoyed your explanation. As a Brazilian born and raised, I learned a lot from your video. Thank You.
I had no idea about the speech tips, my son has speech therapy so this is awesome for me to be able to help not only teach reading but speech tips at home.
Thanks for the video! I live in Argentina and my husband is from here. Our kids have dual citizenship. We are considering homeschooling next year but need to figure out all the details because as far as i know, it is not technically legal here in our province. I wonder if the embassy could provide some helpful information.
I really wanted to watch this but a few minutes in that music in the background is soooo distracting I just couldnt continue 😫 but I am sure there are great hacks here.
Such a helpful review!! Thank you for addressing so many questions, I learned so much. I'm almost certain this will be our curriculum this year. I have seen LOE compared to Pinwheels a lot, any thoughts on that one?
In regards to any phonics in Playing Preschool, do you find it causes confusion or could potentially if are you introducing phonograms and plan to teach reading/spelling with phonograms?
Hello Sara. Congratulations on your content, it has been very valuable to me. I'm Brazilian and I live in Brazil, I'm the father of Helena (3 years old) and Miguel (3 months) and I'm studying to start homeschool with Helena. I've watched more than 100 videos and the vast majority talk about HS in families with 3, 4, 5 or more children. Of course, with a 3-year-old child who sees his other siblings already sitting at the table doing HS, it becomes easier. I haven't seen anyone talking about early pre-k (no older siblings). At the moment, I'm trying to choose a curriculum to start with and digital options seem like the best option, since I can't get books from some brands that only sell print. I'm having a little trouble with this part. There are no words for the quality of your content. May God bless your family.
have you made the any more of these? I love this and I teach Special Ed students - Elementary aged - and I have a group of students that are ELL - with SLD/ communication combinations so hand cues to remember grapheme-phoneme correspondence as we introduce more patterns have been so beneficial. I am looking for something to help students remember the two sounds y can make at the end of a word. (We have this motion for vowel sounds for them to remember the two sounds the letter "a" can make - hand close to chest (closed syllable) /ǎ/ - hand straight out (open syllable) /ā/) - and when the y vowel card appears during the visual drill students start to move their hands 🤓
Thank you for this detailed review… We placed an order and were pleasantly surprised to find out they offer a military discount for both active duty and vets..🙌🏻.. a little savings always helps 😊
