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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He can’t read at all and it’s February of Kindergarten? That would concern me. I wouldn’t be rushing to immersion.[/quote]

+1.  Your kid isn’t reading English yet.  You want to put him in an immersion program in one of the hardest languages to learn in 1st?  Don’t the programs start in K so he would already be behind? Lastly, the teacher doesn’t recommend him for the program.

I think it’s a bad idea. [/quote]

Sorry to be obtuse, are kids reading in kindergarten? What they seem to be covering in school now is sight words. They have covered 20 - I don’t get a book like another parent mentioned (that would be awesome lol), I had to go through all the class newsletters and compile a list. DS can read 10 of the 20 words. To me that seems normal because memorizing site words is boring. I just started working on those when the teacher told me she wouldn’t recommend him this week, I’m sure I can get him up to speed in a few weeks. As far as I l know they haven’t covered phonics other than letter sounds, which he knew before he went to kindergarten. [/quote]

Kids in immersion programs ate getting 50% less ELA/English than a traditional program.  The kids who do the best in these immersion programs are kids who pick things up easily, so usually the higher performing kids.  Everything else is easy for the kids so they have more time to focus on the language. Of course there are exceptions.

Learning another language is hard to begin with and you are choosing Japanese’ which has no similarity to English at all.

I think you are too optimistic and setting your child up to fail.

He will already be behind in the language coming in 1st, won’t understand much of the other subjects taught in the language and will likely be further behind in core subjects like English reading.

I say this as an immersion parent.[/quote]

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