Children’s Spanish CoursesAbout Our Children’s CoursesOur Academy has developed age appropriate Spanish curriculum for toddler and preschool-age children as well as children in the Primary Elementary Grades (K-2), the Secondary Elementary Grades (3-5), the Middle School Grades (6-9) and High School Students (grades 10-12). OLA’s scope and sequence assure that students are continually reviewing previously learned material in addition to learning about new themes and grammar at a proper pace. Our Spanish lesson plans have been tailor-made to engage each age group in activities that interest them as well as to encourage student participation.Bring Spanish to Your Child...Or To Their SchoolIf your childcare center, public or private elementary school or Home School group does not offer a second language, consider OLA’s on-site classes! OLA will bring the games, the music, the fun - the Spanish language to your child care center, or school. We have age-appropriate curriculum for children as young as 33 months of age! Our experienced teachers enjoy the special fun and playful dynamics that accompany teaching children. Each class revolves around fun activities such as role-playing with puppets, song and dance, relay races, board games, flash card and visual aid matching activities and much more, all in Spanish!We welcome the opportunity to work with parent coordinators who would like to help organize before or after school Spanish classes. This is a wonderful way for your child to learn a second language when it is not part of the regular school curriculum. Call or email us to set up a course at YOUR neighborhood childcare center, school, church or even your home! One of the most important goals of OLA’s curriculum and its instructors is to make learning a new language fun. By making studying a language fun, we see students excited to participate in the many activities, proud to speak Spanish and eager to return to class each week. The curriculum encompasses a wide variety of activities such as speaking with puppets, matching flash cards with pictures, role playing, singing songs, chants and rhymes, playing games, writing and publishing books, learning about cultures around the world, art projects, putting on fashion shows and much more. Though speaking and listening skills are the main focus of each class, reading, writing and grammar are also part of the course foundation for older children. Instructors spend the majority of each class speaking to their students in the target language. Students are always encouraged to answer in their new language and are greatly praised when they do so. At first, students give one-word answers but soon they are able to answer and comment using short phrases and eventually progress to communicating with complete sentences. |