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[quote=Anonymous]Rolling Terrace is considered "partial immersion" because half the day is spent immersed in the Spanish language (as the above poster stated, math and science are taught in Spanish, full immersion kindergarten introduces the child to the language all day), whereas the other half of the day students switch teachers.  Reading and writing is taught in English and the immersion students mix with the rest of the students in the school, which is a good thing.

My preference is the partial immersion since the children really learn to understand Spanish and are expected to speak it in the classroom (unless they use it outside of school they are unlikely to become completely fluent in it, though).

A drawback to full immersion might be that the first time they are exposed to "English" is in 6th grade, where all of a sudden they'll be expected to spell things correctly the first time they write an essay, never having had a spelling test or writing assignment in English. But probably Rock Creek Forest parents have a better take on this, how the students work on developing their English writing (and reading and comprehension) skills prior to middle school.[/quote]

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