Kindergarten

The goal of the kindergarten program is to familiarize the student with the Spanish language. The objectives of this course are to introduce the language skills: listening speaking. Basic vocabulary is introduced through songs, games, visual material and realia.

First Grade

The goal of the first grade program is to help the student develop a functional use of the Spanish language. The objectives of this course are to develop the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing and introduce students to Hispanic culture.

Listening: Students can understand very brief segments of familiar, learned material spoken clearly. Repetition is essential to develop students' ability to concentrate on utterances longer than one sentence.

Speaking: Students' oral production is restricted to material that has been learned and practiced, and generally consists of one-or two-word responses to simple questions.

Reading: Students are introduced to the sound system, principally through participation in imitative reading exercises.

Writing: Students' ability to write is limited to copying words or phrase.

Second Grade
The goal of the second grade program is to help the student develop a functional use of the Spanish language. The objectives of this course are to develop the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing and introduce students to Hispanic culture.

Listening: Students can understand very brief segments of familiar, learned material spoken clearly. Repetition may be required to develop students' ability to concentrate on utterances longer than one sentence.

Speaking: Students' oral production is limited to material that has been learned and practiced. It generally consists of responding to or formulating simple questions and responses, in controlled exercises, with fairly acceptable pronunciation.

Reading: Students can read only material presented and learned in oral and written form, with no application of skills outside the students' experience.

Writing: Students' ability to write is limited to copying of written words or short phrases which have been previously acquired through oral production.



Third Grade
The goal of the third grade program is to help the student develop a functional use of the Spanish language. The objectives of this course are to develop the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing and introduce students to Hispanic culture.

Listening: Students are able to understand segments of familiar, learned material when spoken clearly. Still prevalent is the need for repetition of utterances or structures longer than one sentence in length.

Speaking: Students' oral production is bound to material that has been learned and practiced. Generally, functioning takes place in familiar conversational situations in a structured environment with acceptable pronunciation and multiple errors of intonation and syntax.

Reading: Students are able to read and comprehend material previously presented orally and material written in short paragraph form. These forms involve noun vocabulary and structures recombined at the simplest level.

Writing: Students' written ability is limited to previously taught material in the form of completing sentences/dialogues/paragraphs and responding to simple questions in guided exercises with frequent misspellings and inaccuracies.

Fourth Grade
The goal of the fourth grade program is to help the student develop a functional use of the Spanish language. The objectives of this course are to develop the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing and introduce students to Hispanic culture. Each of the 9 units covers a country in South America and is followed by online assignments, writing assignments, tests, or projects.

Listening: Students are able to understand relatively short segments of familiar, learned material in carefully paced speech.

Speaking: Students' ability to speak remains limited to material that has been learned and practiced and generally consist of responding to familiar situations, conversation, discussion with increasingly acceptable, pronunciation and intonation, speech is frequently punctuated with pauses and incorrect syntax due to first language interference.

Reading: Students can read and comprehend course material presented orally and in written in short dialogue, paragraphs involving known vocabulary and structures.

Writing: Students' can write previously taught material in the form of completing sentences, and responding to simple questions and very short simple descriptions in guided exercises, often with orthographic and grammatical inaccuracies.


Fifth Grade
The goal of the fifth grade program is to help the student develop a functional use of the Spanish language. The objectives of this course are to develop the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing and introduce students to Hispanic culture. Each of the 9 units covers a spanish-speaking city in the United States and is followed by online assignments, writing assignments, tests, or projects.

Listening: Students are able to understand segments of familiar, learned material of short to moderate length in nearly standard speech.

Speaking: Students' speaking ability is still fairly limited to material that has been learned and practiced and, in general, consist of initiating and responding to familiar situations, discussion, explanation, description, within the content framework and with appropriate pronunciation and intonation patterns. Speech is characterized by frequent pauses and incorrect syntax due to first language interference.

Reading: Students are able to read and comprehend course material presented orally and in written in short dialogue, paragraph, or story form recombined known vocabulary and structures.

Writing: Students' writing ability remains dependent upon previously taught material and written formats, recombining some sentence elements to form new sentences of the same pattern at the simplest level with frequent spelling and grammatical inaccuracies