LOTE – Spanish

Students in Years Prep to 6 study Spanish one hour per week.

The Languages program will:

• Foster students’ awareness, understanding and appreciation of Spanish culture as well as their own.
• Improve students’ knowledge about the cultural aspects of the country of origin and the target language including customs, history, geography, literature and the arts.
• Give children an opportunity to access a language other than English.
• Enhance students’ skills in cross-cultural communication.
• Provide a developmental program in Listening & Speaking, Reading and Writing differentiates to meet the needs, interests and abilities of all students
• Build students’ self-expression and sense of achievement by studying another language
• Broaden and enrich students’ knowledge of another culture

Activities in Languages will be:

• Engaging in songs, stories and rhymes
• Role plays, dialogues
• Matching labels with pictures
• Watching cultural movies
• Art activities, origami, cards, word find, bingo and language games
• Using a variety of language educational software, iPad apps and languages websites
• Students work samples

Through a variety of activities, the children will develop communication skills and an appreciation of linguistic and cultural diversity.