ACTIVITIES & PROGRAMS
SPANISH IMMERSION
Kendall Christian School offers children an opportunity to learn Spanish through our Spanish Immersion program for students from PreK4 through 4th Grade.
KCS LANGUAGE IMMERSION Program
The classroom setting and teacher provide students with the best environment for language acquisition through subject content and social interaction.
The Spanish Immersion classrooms use a combination of our school’s curriculum along with the add.a.lingua method of instruction and lesson frameworks. While the core subjects are taught solely in Spanish, specials such as art, music, PE, library/media, STEAM, and science will continue to be taught in English.
At KCS, we believe students will benefit from a quality, dual language immersion program that ensures high proficiency in more than one language. This program will give students the ability to become bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural; in turn, they will have greater opportunities to use their gifts as they serve a global community.
Frequently Asked Questions
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o A language immersion program is a proven method of educating children by immersing them in a second or "target" language so they become bilingual.
o In a language immersion program, the classroom environment becomes the setting for language acquisition through subject content instruction, educational discourse, and social interactions.
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Babies are born as "world citizens," able to distinguish any sound in spoken language.
Toddlers learn through interaction with their families and their immediate surroundings.
School-age children make sense of new concepts by relating those new concepts to what they already know.
Students before the age of puberty more easily attain native-like proficiency
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A language immersion program equips students to become Americans who are linguistically and culturally aware, increasing global competitiveness and communication.
A language immersion program expands students’ potential career opportunities in our increasingly shrinking and diverse world market.
A language immersion program fosters an inherent understanding of the world that prompts us to naturally cross linguistic and cultural boundaries.