Formal Spanish class is offered to all students. Each grade attends Spanish class twice per week.
The goal for our students is to learn how to speak the language as well as to read and write it. Students practice the four communicative skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing through various exercises and curricula. Learning to conjugate a verb is a skill, but it is not a priority in the comprehensible classroom approach. Below is a quick overview of what is taught in class.
For the primary grades, students begin to learn: sight words, basic greetings, the numbers, colors. Initial sounds, alphabet and blends are later introduced. Students learn how to greet people, introduce themselves, say where they are from and where people are from, greet and introduce others.
For upper grades students, we use the SOMOS curriculum. This curriculum is a proficiency-based program for Spanish learners in middle school that focuses on language acquisition and culture understanding. This program is for novice to intermediate learners.
Please email me if you have any questions regarding Spanish, Computer or any of the after school activities.