Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

Students are introduced to vocabulary about classrooms, numbers, colors, days of the week, months, family members, and body parts. In these younger grades, the focus is on auditory skills and repetition – correct pronunciation is modeled, and students follow by repeating.

3rd Grade – 5nd Grade 

Students continue to build vocabulary (the number of words increases with each grade level), refine pronunciation, and begin to develop writing and reading skills with short sentences. Dia de los Muertos, Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe, Posadas, La Navidad, and Historia de Latino America are also discussed.

6th Grade

Students review and master basic vocabulary and conversation skills. They start writing questions and learning how to respond verbally and in writing. They are introduced to pronouns, gender of nouns, adjectives, plural nouns, ser vs. estar, tener, and quien. Short story reading and translation is built into the curriculum in 6th Grade. Students research and work on a small project about Latin American countries.

7th Grade

Writing is the focus. Students learn -ar, -er, and -ir verbs in the present tense along with prepositions, donde esta?, que haces?, and continue work on ser vs. estar.

8th Grade

Students are well into their writing and reading while continuing to work on pronunciation and conversational skills - learning to answer the phone, ask for directions, give directions, and ask for help in Spanish. Verb conjugation work continues, including the stem-changing -ue.

The goal of the program is that students can begin high school in Spanish 2.