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Mandarin by Sponge Language Institute

Who: K-5
Class Day:  Mondays & Wednesdays
Class Time: 8:30 - 9:30am
Location: Room  13

Spring Tuition: $367
Meeting Date: 
4/3 - 6/21 (No class on 4/10, 4/12 and 5/29)
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Winter Tuition: $208
Meeting Date: 2/6 - 3/29 (No class 2/20, 2/22, 3/22)

Description
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At Sponge, we see language as a passport to global citizenship. Students learn to see the world through a different lens while acquiring language skills and the confidence to use them. Young learners are especially primed for language learning - research shows that students are 70% more likely to gain fluency when they begin in elementary school or younger. Classes will be immersion based, and taught by native speaker using games, art, drama and movement to help children build language skills! We believe the best way to lean a language is to be immersed in it and having fun!

“Learning a language is not just learning grammar and vocabulary…It is learning how to function in another culture, how to know a new community from the inside out.” (MLA, 2003) 

​Our Sponge elementary program has 3 goals:
  1. Build communication skills,
  2. Develop language-learning strategies, and
  3. Broaden students’ understanding of the world
We make it fun with games, drama, crafts and songs.  And, we stay in the target language to optimize our learning.
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NORTH BEACH ELEMENTARY PTA
  • Home
    • About North Beach
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