Contact: Jeremy Aldrich, Foreign Language Coordinator and FLES Spanish teacher

Our FLES program is proficiency-based (focused on what students can do with their language skills) and content-enriched (linking to standards-based content that students need to master in their regular classes).

Although school schedules differ, students in Kindergarten, first, and second grade receive about an hour of Spanish instruction weekly (Kindergarten and first grade only at Smithland Elementary, to mirror the grades for the Dual Language Immersion program).

Materials we use include:

Our curriculum is a work in progress.  For the first year of our FLES program, we will teach similar lessons and have similar goals across grades K-2. By the end of the year, students participating in this program will be able to do the following:

 

PG1a - Introduce self by saying name

PG1b - Count to ten

PG1c - Ask how others are and report how one feels

PG1d - Identify basic shapes when given name in Spanish

PG1e - Say names of colors

PG1f - Locate USA, Spain, and Mexico on a map and globe

PG1g - Describe character traits of self and others by completing sentence frames

PG1h - Make comparisons between people, situations, and objects by completing sentence frames

PG1i - Express likes and dislikes

PG1j - Express emotion

PG1k - Ask what time it is and tell time to the hour.

PG1l - Count to 31 (kindergarten) or count to 100 (1st and 2nd grade).

PG1m - Describe weather

PG1n - Count by 5s (K) or by 10s (1st and 2nd grade)

PG1o - Name several animals based on pictures or on Spanish description

PG1p - Name several body parts

PG1q - Name several fruits and vegetables

PG1r - Recite or sing the alphabet

PG1s - Write a vowel or a syllable when dictated by teacher

PG1t - State the day and date in Spanish.

PG1u - Read a short booklet aloud (1st and 2nd)