Spanish Material- Day 7

It's been a week into the new month, and this month I am upping the amount of teaching material I sell on Teachers Pay Teachers, a website for teachers who want to sell and buy other teaching material.  I started listing all my teaching paperwork there when I was teaching because I had to build all my own material for the 5 years I was teaching.  Truthfully, it's been an immensely rewarding experience, as the feedback from those who have purchased my work has been wonderful.  It's a truly rewarding moment to know that what you have built has helped others.

Well, it's been about 3 years since I created teaching paperwork for Spanish, and as a result, I have seen my sales decrease because people don't buy the same thing multiple times.  Therefore, I have dedicated this month to building more Spanish material to help my followers and clients.

So far, I have built paperwork around Adverbs and Subjunctive -vs- indicative phrases.  I dedicate about 20 min a day to building material, and I can admit that having been out of the game, I don't build them as quickly as I used to. I find I have to think harder and longer about what to include and how to build the handouts than I did when I was doing it daily.  I used to be able to build a full test in 20 minutes if I needed to.  I was extremely efficient.  While I may not be as quick as I was before, I want to ensure the quality of my work is up to the same standards of the items already listed for sale.

And so that is what I'm doing.  The coolest part of this, and a byproduct I hadn't anticipated when I scheduled this month as Building Spanish material month, is that I get the pleasure of doing work while watching the Olympics!  It also reminds me how vitally important it is to encourage and build bilingual children in today's global society.  Knowing another language opens so many doors and expands your understanding and appreciation of culture, that anything I can do to help promote global thinking is a genuine pleasure.

Next month, I think I'm going to work on building my very minimal french so that when we go to Europe I'll know more!

Cheers!  And go team USA!!