“Young Spanish”

with
BOCA BETH

When-Tuesday afternoons
  Time-12:30-2:30
  Who-Offered as part of our new 5  day kindergarten program  (for 5 full day participants)
 Also offered as an enrichment class for children in our Getting Ready for Kindergarten program
 Includes-Stories, music, games, art, puppets,  FUN!
 Teacher-Miss Jenni Osborn 

Top Benefits of Early Language Learning

Higher test scores: Numerous reports have proven that students who have studied a foreign language perform much better than their monolingual peers on many standardized tests, including all sections of the SAT.

Better and more advanced reading skills: A study undertaken by York University in Canada suggests that bilingual children’s knowledge of a second language gives them an advantage in learning to read.

Greater confidence: For children, the feeling of accomplishment that comes with their first steps toward a second language can spur them on to a deeper and broader passion for learning in general.  Language learning is intuitive and natural for children and the ease and pleasure of the experience may boost their confidence and their desire for new discoveries.

Gives brains a boost:  Research into the effects of bilingualism on children suggests that exposure to more than one language is an excellent way of flexing those brain muscles—and building them up too! Bilingual children in one study  showed a significantly larger density of "grey matter" in their brains. Grey matter is responsible for processing information, including memory, speech and sensory perception.

Natural-sounding, native-like accent: Children are always mimicking what they hear, and are surprisingly good at it! They are uniquely attuned to slight differences in tone and sound. Their sensitive ears help them pick up on and duplicate the tricky sounds adults and even adolescents often stumble over.

Greater opportunities for college and careers: Colleges now place an increasingly high value on knowledge of more than one language. As the admissions process becomes more competitive across the board, knowing a second or a third language adds a new dimension to an applicant's resume. And as the economy becomes more and more globalized, English-only becomes less and less of an option.

Greater grasp of one's first language—including a bigger, richer vocabulary: The experience of learning a new language can bring greater understanding and perhaps even better grammar to our first language.   Children use what they learn in one language to reinforce concepts and terms they've learned in the other.