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Website will help kids learn Spanish while stuck at home

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Local News | March 23, 2020
By Courtney Kueppers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Looking for online learning tools for kids at home? The Spanish Experiment may be able to help

With parents across the country learning the ropes of homeschooling amid the coronavirus pandemic, there are a lot of creative learning tools popping up online.

From the Kennedy Space Center to Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts, institutions have started hosting virtual learning activities. There are also digital tools  that will help kids put on a play or learn to doodle with Mo Willems.

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And, if you want to add learning a new language to your home school curriculum, there are options for that as well.

The Spanish Experiment, which was founded in 2013, has free online Spanish lessons and popular children's books translated into Spanish.

From “Chicken Little” to “The Three Little Pigs” and “Cinderella,” the website has a variety of popular tales that have been translated into Spanish.

Kids can listen, watch a video with the story and read along in Spanish or English as the story plays.

The site also has free beginner Spanish lessons with audio available for kids and adults alike.

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Additional ways to stay occupied when you’re at home:

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