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Hey Calico Spanish, what are your virtual learning options? Requests for virtual Spanish learning have come across our desk from time to time for a long time. Sometimes it takes a crisis to make you figure out how to move something from the back burner to a front burner, and we’ve been watching that happen […]

Long ago in a home far from your own, there was a vague concept called “teaching from home.” It was something that a friend of a friend did as a moonlighting job. Perhaps they were helping kids with English at 5 A.M or becoming an adjunct in an online class at a university that needed […]

Digital elementary spanish The global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is changing faster than news stories can be written and published. The virus has brought almost every major system to challenges perhaps never faced before. Healthcare. Finance. Food service. Transportation. Education. In the span of a few days, the coronavirus crisis took us from […]

Dual immersion programs are a great option to get more language learning in the early grades, but how can caregivers and teachers work together, especially if Spanish (or other target language) isn’t spoken at home? Read on for our tips. The (well-founded) pressure to raise bilingual kids In this modern world with all of its […]

Early language educators, it’s ACTFL week!  This Thursday kicks off the 2019 Annual Convention & Expo for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).  It’s an enormous conference that’s enormously fun and some of the best professional development around.  This year, the ACTFL Convention is in Washington, D.C.  Calico Spanish is not […]

The Best Elementary Spanish Curriculum: 11 questions to ask As a teacher or parent who wants the young children in your life to speak real Spanish to real people, you have a lot of choices to make. You’ll find an array of programs that claim to help you teach Spanish to children. How do you […]

NEW: Popular Spanish curriculum expands with a fourth Level Here at Calico Spanish, we want teachers and parents to know our popular Spanish curriculum is fun and effective.  So, we’re always working to improve and expand the opportunities children have to learn real Spanish to use with real people.  If you follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, you’ve […]

In case the hearts, balloons, chocolates, and school dances haven’t been enough to remind you, it’s Valentine’s Day!  In other words, it’s Friendship Day! No, really, in Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, February 14th is Día del Amor y la Amistad – the day of love and friendship.  They have this “Galentine’s” thing […]

Feliz Navidad for most of the learners and teachers we know and love, the semester is wrapping up.  As we wrap up, many of us are also wrapping something else – the Christmas presents!  Whatever this holiday season holds for you, know that we appreciate you. – Follow us on Twitter – – Like Calico […]

2021 update: It’s been four years since Level D launched, and four years since this blog post originally went live. Since then, thousands of people have viewed this post, making it one of our most popular resources to date! In Level D, children meet Ofelia la oveja blanca (the white sheep) and her friends. Some […]