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We use a Spanish immersion approach. All activities are offered in Spanish with English support. Our classes serve preschoolers age 2-5. The Language Garden teachers don’t “teach” Spanish, they live it. The Language Garden lays a strong foundation for early literacy in both English and Spanish. The program also provides opportunities for children to explore and gain an understanding of the ever changing world around them.
School Hours:
Students arrive at 9:00am (Drop off window 8:45-9:00am)
Students are dismissed at 12:30 pm (Pick up window 12:30pm-12:45pm)
Outdoor Classroom/Experiences:
Children are free to make decisions about how they will spend their time outdoors. A variety of choices is offered for outdoor play. Teachers offer activities with clay, sand tables, gardening, and other games that will reinforce gross motor development. Weather permitting, all children will have the opportunity to spend time outdoors in the gardens and our incredible outdoor spaces.
Sensory and Gross Motor Play
Capoeira is offered at least one to two days per week, depending on your program. Capoeira is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music.
Imagination Builder
The Art Shop: Students will have an opportunity to enjoy our art shop daily. Teachers at The Language Garden incorporate many different types of art. Students work with paints, clay, various paper, and writing/painting tools, just to name a few. Students have opportunities for self-directing during art shop as well as work with teacher directed projects. We also make all the artshop's watercolors, dyes and salt dough.
Exploration Station: Children interact with each other by playing games and working on other cooperative activities. Listed below are some of the activities that are made available. Students may choose out of three or four activities each morning. The list below is not complete, but should give a general idea of the early morning learning opportunities available at The Language Garden.
Puzzles
Exploring with letters and numbers (using magnetic letters, drawing in sand., etc)
Free drawing or writing in personal journals
Connecting cubes/playing with patterns
Building blocks
Exploring clocks
Story Time
Reading Aloud is one of the most important and powerful tools adults have to model language usage. Our read alouds are daily and frequent. Some stories will be shared in Spanish and others in English. We believe in modeling both languages as much as possible. Students have the opportunity to visit the library for self-directed experiences with books. Each day, children are encouraged to choose and check out books for home reading.
Emergent Literacy and Numeracy
Early Literacy/Learning Centers: Children will be engaged in different learning activities in self directed centers. The teachers rotate so all children have an opportunity to experience each center. The teachers work as a constructivist team following the child and teach from student strengths and interests. Examples of centers include, but are not limited to, the following:
Identifying letters/sounds
Vocabulary building
Fine motor development: writing and using a variety of writing/drawing tools and other tools of measurement.
Interactive Writing Framework (class writing with teacher support)
Basic geographical explorations
Number sense explorations
Fun with adding and take away
Counting up to 20 and some skip counting
Comparing and contrasting different attributes
Concept of time
Calendar Fun
Dramatic Play
Science Center Exploring
Social Development Community Clean Up/Transitions: During clean up and transition time, children will have the opportunity to learn how to follow through with a job.
Snack time This is an informal time to learn table manners, proper eating behavior, and nutritional information. Snack time provides a natural opportunity to build Spanish vocabulary in the area of food.
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