Greensboro
Montessori School:
Liberal Arts
Spanish News
See the latest and greatest from our
talented students in Spanish.
 Primary & Lower
Elementary Spanish
Sandra Lee
Our Upper and Lower Elementary School Spanish teacher, Sra. Sandra, has links for activities for Upper El and Lower El.
She is always updating with new games and activities, so check back
often.
 Upper
Elementary & Middle School Spanis
Walter Moore
The goals of the Upper Elementary
and Middle School Spanish programs branch into two main objectives.
The first objective is to reinforce and deepen the students’
grammatical capacity; that is, to explore and teach structural concepts
in a small-classroom environment. In all classes, this is achieved
by means of multi-sensory activities and materials. This grammatical
component is integrated in the Upper Elementary curriculum as seamlessly
as possible. For instance, Montessori grammar materials are employed
for Grammar and Sentence Analysis, helping to highlight the differences
and similarities between Spanish and English. This exploration becomes
a dialectical process in Middle School, wherein the grammar is taught
inductively; students are encouraged to discern patterns and regularities
(adjective placement, for example; in English the adjective typically
is placed after the noun, in Spanish, it generally arrives before
the noun: la alumna intelegente). In addition, past topics, such
as numbers, the alphabet, colors and accurate pronunciation are
reintroduced and recycled.
The second branch of the program encompasses developing conversational
and communicative skills. This goal is closely interconnected with
the previous objective in that it provides a means for the students
to apply the grammatical knowledge they gain. This is achieved through
conversational activities, from mini-dialogues to skits and presentations.
This helps students improve their phonetic awareness, as they must
listen to their classmates as well as create their own productions.
Such in-depth experience is extended into Permaculture gardening,
which is taught in Spanish and includes enrichment activities to
increase their vocabulary and incorporate cultural knowledge into
the lessons.
Culture of the Spanish-speaking world, in addition to being included
in their instructional materials, is further explored in mini-lessons
in history and other aspects of Spanish and Ibero-American society.
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