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Spanish
By providing a Spanish program at MPS, we help our students become
lifelong learners and globally aware citizens. We provide them with
extensive studies not only in the language, but also with the culture,
geography, history, music, and people of Spain and Latin America.
The Spanish program at Mission Parish School begins in Pre-K and
goes all the way up through 8th grade.
In the lower grades, Pre-K to third grade, we read children's books, learn Spanish songs and games, and introduce basic vocabulary in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.
Formal Spanish instruction starts in fourth grade. In fourth and fifth grade, students integrate the vocabulary that they learned in the lower grades with basic functions that will make their next stage easier. Yet, at the same time, they continue to enjoy songs and games.
Our middle school program offers Spanish two times a week for
sixth grade and three times a week for seventh and eighth grade. This gives us ample opportunity to build on their previous knowledge, while expanding their awareness of new functions. By reviewing and recycling some of the content, we offer students the opportunity to let the information "sink in deeply," instead of rushing them through all the contents ins one year.
In seventh and eighth grade, a Spanish I A and Spanish I B textbook is used. It is a comprehensive program that covers all aspects of the Standards for Foreign Language Learning, and that prepares most of our students to go to Spanish I honors or Spanish II. Other students prefer to repeat Spanish I, as to not to overload their first year of high school.
Spanish at Mission Parish School is fun yet extensive, and although
demanding, students enjoy learning about the language, other
places and cultures. Becoming lifelong learners and globally aware citizens
in a country full of diversity, is a priority in the Spanish program here at Mission Parish School.
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