The Elementary Spanish program in Wilmette is a FLES program that offers students Spanish instruction 20 minutes a day, 2 days a week in Kindergarten and 30 minutes a day, 3 days a week in first through fourth grades. The program is content-based meaning students learn vocabulary and concepts based around what they are learning in the regular classroom.

Program Philosophy

• COMMUNICATION: The study another language leads to communication. We will teach students from in early age to communicate beyond their primary language(s) in order to participate effectively in this global community.

• CULTURE: The study of another language will unlock and broaden the students' views of their world and that of other cultures. Students will recognize that which is common to all human experience and will accept that which is different.

• CONNECTIONS: The study of another language leads to an Interdisciplinary view of the curriculum. Students will begin language study as early as possible in an Interdisciplinary environment.

• COMPARISONS: The study of another language leads to critical thinking skills. Our goal is to enhance the ability to analyze, to compare and contrast, to synthesiz, to improvise and examine cultures through a language and a perspective other than one's own.

• COMMUNITIES: The study of another language will enable students to become life-long learners. Students will use the target language beyond the school setting.

The next pages are resources for learning reinforcement per grade.