Spanish Education Program for Kids for Individual Home Schooled Students

Teach Spanish to elementary level students.

The new Risas y Sonrisas Individual Program consists of a Student Book with a full-color card stock Domino Game, CD-ROM, and Music CD. Like our Classroom Program, our Individual Program is designed to stimulate different learning styles by using a multi-media, multi-sensory approach. In this way, students can learn much faster and with a higher level of retention.

"Risas y Sonrisas is an extraordinary language program - creatively designed to be entertaining and rich in content. Kids are quickly immersed in Spanish and having a ball. Short of a trip abroad I can't imagine a better learning experience."

- Pam Parker, Risas y Sonrisas Customer

All of the elements of the program are designed to reinforce and complement each other:

Music CD Students can listen to 39 songs on the CD. As they listen, they can follow along with the lyrics or with the pictures in the Student Book. They can also use the CD-ROM to read and play the song one line at a time! Click here for more information on the Music CD.
CD-ROM Using the CD-ROM, students can learn songs at their own pace, proper pronunciation of vocabulary or key phrases and conjugations of verbs in the past, present and future. When a student clicks on any image, they will hear the correct Spanish pronunciation spoken by a native speaker! All of the nouns are color coded with pink for feminine words and blue for masculine words. This color coding is also used in the Student Book and in the domino games to reinforce this important aspect of Spanish grammar - noun gender. Click Here for more information and Online Demos.
Student Book The full-color Student Book uses pictures, and in some cases associations, to help students to easily learn vocabulary. Along with their vocabulary, students learn key phrases related to that unit. The student's skills expand by combining new and previously learned vocabulary and phrases. Their knowledge of the Spanish language becomes more comprehensive. Click here for more information and Sample Units.
Domino Game Students practice 12 vocabulary units with this hands-on game. The purpose is to connect the dominos by matching the picture on one domino to the corresponding Spanish word for that picture on another domino. The result is 6 squares with 4 dominos each per vocabulary unit. Click here for more information.

Units Included in this Program: Pronunciation (Vowels/Alphabet), Colors, Greetings, Numbers 1-1000, Masculine/Feminine, Body, Directions, Questions, Family, Opposites, Days of the Week, Months, Seasons, Weather, Verbs, Personal Pronouns, Present/Past/Future, Food, Farm Animals, House, Clothes, Places, Wild Animals, Occupations, Ser/Estar/Tener, Telling Time, Nature and Silverware. Also, songs, key phrases and skits related to these units.

Risas y Sonrisas uses a multi-media approach to teach and reinforce essential Spanish language skills in a way that is effective, versatile, and fun!

The items below are all included in the complete Classroom Program, but may also be purchased separately and are an excellent addition to the Individual Program:

The following full-color 18" x 24" posters are available for purchase separately (click each name to see the posters):

Vowels (Sounds of the Vowels in Spanish)
Consonants (Important letter sounds to remember in Spanish)
Snake (Game to practice Colors and Shapes using a die)
Olimpo y Ana (Explains masculine/feminine concept and articles)
Days (Origin of the words to recall the days of the week)

Fall/Winter
Spring/Summer
Family (Family members with color coded words for masculine/feminine)
Ser (Uses of Ser – to be)
Estar (Uses of Estar – to be)
Tener (Uses of Tener – to have/to be)
Time

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Personal Pronoun Package: The Personal Pronouns poster and the 9 Personal Pronoun Picture Cards with present/past/future verb endings are available for purchase as a separate package. Click here for order information.

"Thank you so much for creating this program. You have condensed a wealth of information into one small workbook and CD. The material is well organized and very parent-children friendly. The illustrations in the workbook are clear as well as very entertaining. The songs are fun, set to tunes with which most American children are familiar. You have also done an incredible job of rhyming between English and Spanish at the same time as you are organizing each lesson into easy to remember categories and relationships. My kids (4 and 6 years old) beg me to let them listen to the Spanish songs! I am delighted to hear them singing the songs to themselves while they are playing."

- Charlene Anderson, Risas y Sonrisas Customer