We had one of those dreamy idealised Home Ed mornings, sitting at the table listening to and responding to a Beginners’ Spanish CD while making Fimo models and eating homemade bread. (Incidentally, Fimo is incredibly painful to soften up, like oldfashioned plasticine; I might try the “soft” version but if that doesn’t work we’ll switch over to Sugru, which doesn’t need to be baked either).
So I figured I might try and capitalise on it and reserve some more Spanish CDs at the library, only to find that almost all of them are lost, never returned, or stolen. So I’ve requested a few of the allegedly “on the shelf” ones and we’ll see what comes through.
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fimo is wierd as some of it is much harder than others! the effects range seem to be easiest, an i only use that or soft. think sculpey is a bit more malleable
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I agree with Helen about the Fimo, we tend to use the soft most of all. Have you considered Rosetta Stone for Spanish? Or the Book People have lots of ‘learn spanish’ type course books and cds.
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This is why I prefer play dough, even though I do realise you can’t bake it! We use air drying clay too, which is a lot sloshier though I don’t mind it, which is odd because I dislike the feel of homemade salt dough intensely, and we rarely make it.
It’s worth scouring charity shops for language CDs, we got a great French set for a few quid a while ago.
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Playdough and air drying clay are both… a bit vulnerable to our chaotic lifestyle. I had bruises from the hard Fimo the next day, though! Soft from now on. We have a slab of Sculpey somewhere but haven’t tried it yet.
We’re more trying to find out if the children WANT to do Spanish than actively pursuing it, at this stage. I was surprised to find how much on the catalogue was actually not available.
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