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Halloween & Día de los Muertos

by Maria

By Maria Hawkins Photo Credit: Loren Javier Aside from enjoying all the changes in the weather this time of year our family has a special fondness for celebrating Halloween and El Día de los Muertos. The kids start filling the house with decorations and preparing their costumes for Halloween. We stick to spooky more than [...]

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Bilingual Families: Catch One Another in the Act!

by Corey

Multilingual Living reader, Kymber, sent in the following language learning activity that she and her family do together! She wrote this in response to Carla’s language activity: Play the Beeping Game with Your Bilingual Children. The key is to keep this fun – everyone should be able to catch the one another “in the act” [...]

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Learning French Around the Maison: Art and Drama

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By Sarah Dodson-Knight Photo Credit: Posh Living, LLC If you’re speaking French at home with your kids, like I do with my toddler Griffin, then you know that just about anything you do around the house is fair game for rendering in French, from playtime to mealtime to bath time to bedtime. But what about [...]

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Get Your Bilingual Child Talking With a Monolingual Teddy

by Corey

Multilingual Living reader, Maria, sent in the following language learning activity that she is doing with her son! They are a bilingual family so this fun and interactive language activity helps them add in yet another language into their daily lives. She was inspired by the One Hour a Day of Language Learning post to [...]

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Las Hojas Estan Cambiando (The Leaves Are Changing): Part One

by Maria

Photo Credit: Steven Deplo We are delighted to introduce a fantastic new contributor to Multilingual Living: Maria Hawkins! Maria is a former public school teacher who now homeschools her children in English and Spanish. We asked Maria if she would be willing to share her teaching and language knowledge to create Spanish language lessons for [...]

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Cut It Out! Create a Collage with Your Bilingual Child

by Corey

What to do with all of those old magazines? Or what about those annoying advertisements that come in the mail? Before you put them in the recycling bin, use them for a fantastic bilingual language activity! You and your child will have so many opportunities to use vocabulary while having a wonderful time!

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