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post #1 of 8
8/11/08 at 12:20am
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Hi!
Does anyone send their child to a language immersion Montessori?

My kids go to a French one (www.imsnc.org
post #2 of 8
8/11/08 at 12:22am
My oldest son is in a bilingual Montessori classroom: English and Hebrew.
post #3 of 8
8/11/08 at 1:06am
Not an option here - but I sure would love it if it were.
post #4 of 8
8/17/08 at 9:43pm
My son is starting a Spanish/English bilingual Montessori school. (80% Spanish).
post #5 of 8
8/19/08 at 4:07pm
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I'm really happy to have found our school.
post #6 of 8
8/19/08 at 4:08pm
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Is it a public one? -- The Hebrew/English one.
From what I understand in North Carolina, anyway, that the public ones (we have one in Raleigh) aren't fully immersion.

What is your's like?

I'm getting some pushback from my 2nd grader, where as my Kindergarter loves it -- he started when he was 3.
post #7 of 8
8/19/08 at 6:37pm
Maybe people have heard me say it before, but I would LOVE to send ds to a French immersion Montessori! Do you like it? How do they run it? If there are any materials unique to French, what are they? Since your dc2 started at 3, did they teach reading in English, French, or both? (If in French, maybe you have some insight for me into what words they used when doing the early phonics. I can't seem to find a word list for new readers in French. If you know anything about this, you could pm me - I'd greatly appreciate it!)
post #8 of 8
8/19/08 at 6:49pm
Ours isn't an immersion Montessori school, but one of the main reasons I enrolled my children there is because it is fantastically multi cultural - There are guides from Japan, England, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Russia, Bosnia, America, and Italy. DD2's teacher is tri-lingual (speaks fluent Japanese and Spanish) and the other day I asked if she ever spoke to the children in different languages. She said no, but then asked if I wanted her to. I told her to feel free to speak Japanese and Spanish to my daughter! OF COURSE! And my partner is fluent in spanish, so they already know a bit.

They do have a spanish teacher (new this year) that will be a part of the program, but it's obviously not immersion.

I checked out a HeadStart classroom for DD1 last year and it would have been a total spanish immersion class for her. I just didn't feel comfortable with the security in the area the school was in.
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