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Rhea
11-09-2009, 09:55 PM
Hi,

My daughter (9th) is working her way through SOS Spanish (HS 1) on her own. What I've had her doing is working on it 5 days/week, a minimum of 50 minutes. Since I haven't been doing it with her, I was wondering if there was enough review/practice. Well today she told me she needs to schedule in review time because the amount of time spent on something in a lesson she said is not enough to get it memorized. (We did Visual Link Spanish before this and did not have this challenge.)

What have you or your children found useful? Would you recommend working a lesson and memorizing the material before the next lesson, or would you do a section at a time on the computer, and then take time to memorize it before moving on?

Thank you!
Rhea
choirfarm
11-10-2009, 06:29 AM
My son is a 9th grader who is working through SOS Spanish. He makes notecards and has a HUGE amount of them. He found something he could print off the computer for what he should know ( he is in unit 3) and it was 10 pages of vocabulary and phrases and such!!!! He often takes a day and just studies the vocab. Someone here told me she let her kids take the tests open notebook. Her children placed out of a couple of years of Spanish even though they did that. He has a solid B without doint that so far, but if he starts to struggle then I may let him. He always takes a day to study before the test. I think you have to. There is too much material just to use the computer.

Christine
Rhea
11-10-2009, 05:09 PM
Thank you Christine.

The material your son found online, was it specific to SOS Spanish? If so, does he have a website for it? :)

Rhea
Starr
11-10-2009, 08:42 PM
I believe this is the program JeaninWisc uses and shares her information. You might check some other threads.
choirfarm
11-11-2009, 06:39 AM
Thank you Christine.

The material your son found online, was it specific to SOS Spanish? If so, does he have a website for it? :)

Rhea
It wasn't found online. He stumbled upon it in SOS Spanish. It says Spanish I, Unit 3, Reference: Las Necesidades Then it has Spanish then Reference. Then it has the vocabulary listed by lesson as well as rules. The one for this unit is 9 pages long. He's asleep right now as it is 4:30am, but when he gets up I'll ask him what button you push in the program to get it.

Christine