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Bondurant - Farrar’s Growing Spanish Program

Allie Kerper, Lexie Klein & Haley Vance

Introductions

Allie Kerper - Spanish II, III and ELL Lexie Klein - Exploratory Spanish, Spanish I and II Haley Vance - Spanish I, IV and ELL

Elementary Spanish Program

• 5 week program (10 sessions) last spring
• Approximately 60 students participated
• Basic Spanish Vocabulary

○ Greetings ○ Colors ○ Numbers ○ Alphabet ○ Days of the week ○ Body parts ○ More!

• High school volunteers were fantásticos!

Elementary Spanish students learning about días de la semana!

Middle School Spanish

• Exploratory Spanish available for 7th and 8th grade students

○ Meets every other day for one semester ○ Students explore the language through storytelling, listening to music and doing MovieTalks

• Taking Spanish I for credit was offered to 8th grade students

this year ○ 26 students chose to take advantage of the class ○ They are exceeding expectations!

High School Spanish

• Numbers are increasing in each level

○ Added a section of Spanish II ○ About 12-15 more students in both Spanish III and IV

• Integrating comprehensible input across all levels

○ More practical and natural learning through real world examples

• Spanish III and IV have expanded speaking opportunities

Nuestro futuro

• Offer the elementary Spanish program again this spring
• Continue to offer Spanish 1 for credit at the 8th grade level
• Continue to improve retention rates between each level
• Long term goal is to go fully CI (Comprehensible Input) as

much as possible

• Flexible seating possibilities in the coming years

¿Preguntas?

¡Gracias!