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All parents try to ease their children into new experiences. Historically, reading a relevant book has been helpful to prepare children for a change. Now, we have the great option of using educational multimedia to do the same. The Luca Lashes/Luca Pestañas series of ebooks, apps, and activities is one way to do this. Luca is a young boy who gets nervous as he goes through lots of “firsts,” including going to the dentist and getting his first haircut. InRead More ...

Fall is, by far, my favorite season. I hadn’t really experienced the change in seasons until we moved to Colorado. Seven years later, I still can’t get enough of the colors brought about by fall. Every year, we like to take a drive up to the mountains to see the famed Aspens changing colors, but the truth is that I don’t even have to leave the street we live on to experience the breathtaking fall hues. My kids can’t waitRead More ...

Monarca Language shared this awesome Day of the Dead inspired coloring sheet for our niños. Stay tuned for more Day of the Dead printables and check out our Celebrate Day of the Dead page for more activities, recipes and informational posts. Click here for the full printable version of the coloring sheet pictured above.  For more Spanish educational materials for niños visit Monarca Language and like them on Facebook. ...

Sesame Street is really going all out with their Latino-themed videos for Hispanic Heritage Month! Earlier this week we shared Romeo Santos’ video singing with Elmo and today we found this adorable one of Rosita singing about what being Mexican means to her. Love! ...

Chilly weather, pumpkins, and costumes mean that Halloween is almost here! This is a special time for our niños because they get to enjoy treats, dressing up and letting their imaginations soar with all that Halloween has to offer. Monarca Language put together the cute printable story cards featured above for us to share with our kids en español! Just print it out, have your kid color it, cut each individual card and have fun coming up with different storyRead More ...

DeCuentos is an app unlike any I have seen before. Rather than being a typical storybook app where kids can interact with animated characters and scenes, DeCuentos brings traditional storytime into the virtual world. It includes a long list of videos of various native Spanish speakers reading children’s books aloud. I especially like that the stories the developers chose are a mix of classic tales — think Caperucita Roja and Cinco Monitos — and contemporary stories, some of which I had never heard beforeRead More ...

We’ve been giving mucho amor to Sesame Street this week because they’ve been giving el español y nuestra cultura mucho amor también! Not only did the Sesame Street Workshop just launch a few Sesame Street books in Spanish on iBooks this week, introduced Mando this month and also a new Twitter account en español, now we found out that this Thursday, October 10th Romeo Santos will be singing “Quiero Ser Tu Amigo” with Elmo on Sesame Street! Check it out hereRead More ...

You know we always want to keep you up-to-date when it comes to our favorite companies launching products in Spanish, and here’s a great one! Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization, today announced the launch of Sesame Street books on the iBooks Store. A collection of more than 60 Sesame Street books is available for the first time to iBooks users in 51 countries. The range of Sesame Street books includes fan favorites and classics such as The Monster atRead More ...