In English, drop-off at most preschools is a frenzy, especially when it comes to choosing to attend a preschool in Walnut Creek. My Spanish Village is in uproar in Spanish. Honestly? It's better. Walnut Creek families have no shortage of pre-school options. Good ones, even. But My Spanish Village falls in the other category which is a full Spanish immersion program where the school day, starting and finishing in Spanish. No relapse to complications. No English translations run in, where a child looks baffled. So patient, so sincere a mere immersion.
The curriculum was not put off the shelf. It was constructed by my Spanish Village, which is modelled on what children at each stage of development really require. There is order, and it breathes. Lessons move. Days long is little heads music. By no accident, that is, the whole plan.
Bilingual education is said to be so solemn, hard, bordering clinical in some programs. My Spanish Village is in revolt against such an image. Energy matters here. So does humor. It is quite a potent thing that a teacher can make four-year-old children crack into giggles when he/she counts in Spanish. A language is retained when it comes bound to happiness.
Class sizes are deliberately kept small. In My Spanish Village, this is something that one cannot compromise. Small groups imply that teachers really know their students not only their names, but their rhythms. Five minutes to play. Who wouldst like to be stretched. Who does not have a bad week at home, and needs delicacy, instead of difficulty. Such attention has such an effect that it cannot be entirely quantified using test scores.
At the end of kindergarten, students of My Spanish Village are able to read, write and solve math problems in Spanish. Ages five and is able to use two languages. It is a fact, and can be replicated, because the program is coded to produce it.
Throughout the day, social-emotional development takes place. How to share the ball, how to deal with anger, congratulate a friend, these are not by products. They are interwoven into the structure of the functioning of My Spanish Village.
Walnut Creek parents desire their children to have the best beginning. It is no trite, it is a sensation that is true and urgent, and every family takes into that initial preschool seek. MSV is concerned about it and develops something to be proud of.