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Adam Beck of Bilingual Monkeys and the Bilingual Zoo forum repeatedly insists on the importance of an effective homework routine in the minority language. I tried my hand at it when my daughter was still in preschool, but life got in the way. And it didn’t get any better when she started at her bilingual school because it added so much transport time that reduces evening time at home and adds to fatigue of both the minority language parent (me) and the bilingual kid.
When recently she brought home her minority language workbook and I saw the kind of writing/vocabulary exercises they currently do, I thought that I could come up with something similar. And it isn’t all that difficult!
My first attempt was directly inspired by their latest spring flower exercise, but from there I developed my own ideas, which I am going to share here in a new series.
Disclaimer: my drawing abilities are still on an elementary school level. (But at least they are recognisable.)

Below is the first worksheet, which I scanned belatedly, that is, after my daughter wrote in it and I corrected her mistakes:

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