Our classes are both educational and fun! We know that children have the innate ability to acquire whatever language exists in their environment. Our program will allow your child to acquire a second language naturally through immersion.
Our program is designed to introduce young children to a second language through music, culture and play. Our mission is to help children along the path to becoming bilingual so that they may enjoy the many benefits of learning more than one language. Parents receive weekly newsletters with vocabulary and songs presented in class. Classes meet once a week for 11 weeks and continue throughout the school year. One World offers before school programs for children in grades K - 5, preschool classes and Mommy and Me
Benefits of Being Bilingual (from Center for Applied Linguistics) Learning a second language at an early age....
1.Has a positive effect on intellectual growth
2. Enriches and enhances a child's mental development.
3. Leaves students with more flexibility in thinking, greater sensitivity to language, and a better ear for listening.
4.Improves a child's understanding of his/her native language.
5. Gives a child the ability to communicate with people s/he would otherwise not have the chance to know.
6.Opens the door to other cultures and helps the child to appreciate people from other countrties.
7. Gives the student a head start in language requirements for college.
8.Increases job requirements in many careers where knowing another language is a real asset.