linguistmama Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 We will be using this next year and I am very excited to have finally found an all in one curriculum for native speakers! http://www.santillanausa.com/catalogs/santillana-usa-k12-catalog/spanish-language-arts/yabisi-k-6.html I purchased the student book and the 1 year teacher license. There is no hard copy of the tm, only the student book and some readers. The online license includes an extra practice book pdf, annotated student book which is the TM, online student books, readers, workbooks for readers and tests. For the one year license I had to call Santillana for them to activate it. They did not automatically send me an email with that information. It is K-6th and it looks like Santillana has a program for upper grades, but I did not see a place to purchase online. Hopefully by the time I need it that will be an option. I have the 3rd grade materials and I am very happy that it includes reading, grammar, spelling and writing. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 This looks neat! Thanks for sharing this information, would you mind keeping us all updated on this? When you say all-in-one program, what do you mean? What all does it include? I see you will still be doing a lot of English LA, do you use the Spanish version of Math Mammoth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguistmama Posted August 16, 2013 Author Share Posted August 16, 2013 I didn't know MM had a Spanish version, awesome! Yabisi has reading, writing, spelling and grammar all together. In the past we tried to use R&S Spanish, but it is just a reading comprehension program. I wanted something that would teach writing etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleAMom Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I just checked out the Yabisà website. The price seems very reasonable. I see that they also offer Science and Math. Thanks for sharing! I'm also very excited to hear about Math Mammoth in Spanish. I'll have to check that out, as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Math Mammoth Blue is available in Spanish and there is a Spanish YouTube channel for it. At the time, I didn't understand the differences between all of the different Math Mammoth streams, so sorry if my earlier posts were misleading to anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 I remember working with Santillana years ago, and it wasn't very friendly. Glad to see you can access a student practice book with a teacher online license now. that's a great way to go. Otherwise, you'd have to purchase a minimum of 10. That's how it was with most of their products. I used their Mundo Matematico (discontinued) for 3rd and 4th grade. I wanted to use their Spanish language arts program, but with all the stipulations of how much to purchase, I gave up, lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaConquest Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Linguistmama, This post is very timely for us. We currently live in Mexico, and my 5 year-old son attends a Spanish immersion elementary school. We are thinking of transitioning to full-time homeschooling and having a native Spanish speaker tutor him for an hour per day. My son has been in an immersion environment for the last 2.5 years, but neither my husband nor I are native speakers of Spanish. Do you think this curriculum would work for a 5 year old working with a native speaker in our circumstances? Thanks for your thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguistmama Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 Linguistmama, This post is very timely for us. We currently live in Mexico, and my 5 year-old son attends a Spanish immersion elementary school. We are thinking of transitioning to full-time homeschooling and having a native Spanish speaker tutor him for an hour per day. My son has been in an immersion environment for the last 2.5 years, but neither my husband nor I are native speakers of Spanish. Do you think this curriculum would work for a 5 year old working with a native speaker in our circumstances? Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, with a native speaker tutoring him I think it would work very well! It is designed for native speakers which is why I chose it as opposed to something like Rosetta Stone. I am fluent enough to use it although a native tutor would be better of course. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minerva Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Hi Linguistimama How is this program working for you? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguistmama Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 I do like it, but it does have a lot of activities for the classroom that we don't do. I would prefer a program designed for homeschoolers of course :) Santillana's customer service is a pain. I ordered the student books online for 1st and 4th this year several times and they never shipped my order. When I called them they said the physical books were out of stock. After a few more phone calls I got them to sell me a teacher license for the online program that has access to everything; student book, teacher book, tests, practice book, readers etc. That ended up being cheaper for this year, but they only last a year so I will have to re-buy for future children. I love that it covers grammar, writing and spelling all in one book. We get extra books for me to read aloud and my kids to read from our library system. There are enough lessons in 3rd and 4th grade for us to use it 4 times a week. The first grade book has a lot of letter tracing which my first grader is beyond so it is a twice a week program for her. I do plan to continue with it all the way through in addition to library books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleAMom Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Thanks so much for the info!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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