Professor Toto

[coastiechick]

Well, I have searched the forums for info on Professor Toto AND googled reviews and nothing much as come up . . . So, we went ahead and ordered the whole set with our 20% discount code (HOMESCHOOLER) and have a 30 days money-back guarantee;

 

We're going to be learning italian, as it's our heritage & I studied in Rome for 4 months in college, so at least I can be of help at a preschool level lol

 

Anyone used this program?

I'll post how it goes . . . the kids left the tv when I started to play the youtube dvd example and wanted to watch it again (even though I thought it was boring) so I thought that was a green light :001_unsure:

LONG TERM GOAL:

I want my kiddos to learn italian (and actually my whole family) and move onto Rosetta Stone (as a family) when my oldest (4 now) is 6 or 7; and then I am hoping we can all learn latin together after this . . . and squeeze in a family trip to Italy :drool: (in the off-season lol) as a homeschool field trip that satisfies a lot of subjects

 

thank you, Rochelle

[MtnTeaching]

Your plans sound like a lot of fun!

 

I haven't heard anything about this program before, but it's definitely nice to have someone try out new things.

 

I hope it works well for you.

[coastiechick]

SO ...

 

yesterday we had the chance to try our first Prof Toto session ... it is total immersion (in our case italiano), but my 2 year old was mesmerized by it and I encouraged them to repeat after the professor when he asked his students to repeat them ... my 4 year old was hungry, so she was cranky, but after I gave her a snack, she wanted to go right back to watching Prof Toto ...

SIDENOTE: do not tell your kids it's a game ... made that mistake and my 4 yr old kept asking me when we were going to play the game -- I won't make that mistake again.

 

If you use the discount code "HOMESCHOOLER" you get $50 off the total w/ shipping comes to $178 ...

that's not really that bad for 3 notebooks for coloring & make it more like a lesson, 3 dialogue booklets w/ translations (and vocab booklet), a whole lot of DVDs and a CD for listening to children's music in italiano!

There are lots of suggestions in the parent booklet AND it has a 30-day money back guarantee ;)

 

I'll let you know more as things progress ... maybe next week when we've done several session ;)

[coastiechick]

Update on Prof Toto:

 

my 2 year old really loves it; my 4 year old would rather be doing classwork, BUT she watches it anyhow and when I sent her to her room for a timeout I heard her reciting the numbers 1-10 in italian! success! woo hoo!

I was laughing pretty hard. I think it's time to make it more of a class lesson --- as in "this is called a borsa," picking up my purse ... the 4 yo would appreciate that, but either way, it must be working because both of them repeat Prof Toto as he says things ;)