With Latino + Bilingual Kids in Mind
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Recently, I wrote about ways to enrich your bilingual child’s vocabulary over at our sister site, SpanglishBaby, and one of the tips was to try to make everything into a topic of conversation. Coincidentally, the same day, I got the product pictured above which is a table game about exactly that: questions – from the [...]
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One of the biggest challenges of raising a preschooler is to get their focus and attention for at least five minutes. Well, that´s the case in my house. I mean, we´re finally getting to the stage where storytime doesn´t mean ripping and biting books! That´s why I felt we passed a milestone yesterday when my [...]
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When the time comes I will need all-the-help-I-can-get to introduce my girl to numbers and math concepts. There´s a reason why I chose to write and communicate as a profession and why I need a calculator to figure out tips.
I really don´t want to pass along that fear of numbers to her. Ingenio´s Math-o-matic manages [...]
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Another big hit during the playgroup I recently hosted to review Ingenio’s toys, in one word, the North American Map Puzzle, is STURDY! I know we’ve been using this word a lot these past few days when describing this bilingual toy company’s products, but it’s the truth and nothing is more important than a toy [...]
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The first thing that captured my attention on this Ingenio Animals Learning Puzzle was that it says “Two puzzles in one” on the box. I didn’t quite get it because there is just one big puzzle and it has animals with their names written in both Spanish in English. But when I gave it to [...]
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My daughter loves to sing and dance, but has a really hard time sitting still to “learn” anything. It’s like she recognizes a certain “I’m-about-to-teach-you-something” tone in my voice that makes her bolt running.
This bilingual Alphabet Learning Puzzle is one more of Ingenio’s games that has been cleverly created to satisfy a mom’s need to [...]
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When I heard about Ingenio, and the great bilingual toys and games they’ve created, I got extremely excited. You can probably imagine, then, just how much the excitement grew when this Spanglish mami witnessed her son putting Spanish words together. No fuss, no saying “but mom” or “do I have to?” Did I mention [...]
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