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A Beginning Spanish Workbook based on the teachings of Ms. Charlotte Mason.
Ms. Mason believed that pre-school children should be taught a foreign language orally through music and poetry. However,
older children of the grammar stage, were taught, through repetition, one phrase per day. They learned one new sentence daily
during one term for a total of sixty days. At the end of this time the students were able to rearrange those sentences, creating
new sentences of their own in the target language.
When watching a toddler learn to speak, it is obvious that initially they learn single words, nouns and verbs. Then,
almost over night, it seems that they speak in short sentences. These sentences are often blurred and sound like one word.
But eventually as they use these sentences they sort out the words and reorganize them into new creations of their own.
This workbook is based on this philosphy, learning one new sentence daily.
The sentences in this book are absolutely hilarious and loads of fun. The fun sentences are to be memorized and are to
be illustrated. The illustrations are crucial in helping the children recall the sentence.
In our book, the students learn one new sentence per day for four days. On day five, they practice reading these sentences
and translating them back into English. Daily copywork is included for each days memory work. This includes the verb being
studied and the fun sentence being illustrated.
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