Your blog have come of great help to me. I am a first time homeschool parent, I just recieved my daughter’s grade 1 pace and we will be starting tomorrow. However, I looked at the materials and I really don’t know where to start. It’s 4 subjects (Math, Word buiding, Animal Science and Bible reading).

I would like to know, where do I start, with which subject first, how many minutes per subject, any breakes in between and how long should the breaks be? Do I sit with her to do the work or I just read her the instructions and keep coming too check on her?

I am really excited about this curriculum, I wish I can be ablee to follow it the way itt is designed to be followed.

Thanks for being a blessing to us.
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As for learning German, you and I are in the same boat – I knew NOTHING before I started!! But, if you take the right tools and add in a little determination, you will be utterly surprised at how much you can accomplish! We set aside 30 minutes out of each day to sit on the couch together and learn German because repetition is key. There are quite a few websites with free information, I’ll link to them here …

http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab/ger.htm
http://webgerman.com/germlinks/ (You can get sort of lost in this one – you’ll have to look at it before you sit down with your child(ren) and make sure you know where you want to go just so you don’t waste your time and their interest as you look around for what you wanted – learned that by experience unfortunately!)
http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/kids/?location_id=868 (fun cartoon style website with games to play!)
http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=235&t=ec&c=38 (Kids songs in German, some have a video, some have an audio file to play)

My mother-in-law still lives in Germany and she picks up lots of really really easy books (think baby board books with about one sentence per page and only 10 pages total) for us to read. Now, this one requires some translation from someone who already knows German. Maybe your German friends live close enough to help you out with that? They may know where you can obtain the books as well – I haven’t had to look around to purchase those so I’m not sure where to start. If they don’t know, I can look at the back of my books and find the company name and see if they have a website.

But, by far, the most beneficial thing we have used has been an audio course online! My husband just said to me yesterday that he is quite amazed at how much I have learned since I started using it! It’s called RocketGerman – Here is a link to their order page that includes 10 freebies when you order.

ACE uses the Rosetta Stone program which you could also purchase from their website – I’ve never had the chance to use it but I have heard great things about the program. Here’s a link to the ACE German page – https://aceweb.schooloftomorrow.com/store/dept.asp?dept_id=70001&elite_category=M1&elite_subject=602

I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions!

I also wanted to ask… you mentioned in another article listing your 1st grader’s curriculum that she’s also learning German. Do you have any suggestions for materials to teach German to a 6 year old? I do not know German at all, but want to learn as well as teach her, as we have German friends.

I love that ACE can be student-directed. As long as you get them in a good habit of doing their work each day, things run so smoothly and you can be confident they are getting a good education.