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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have never done FLES but was thinking about it. Thank you for sharing. It doesn't sound very good. DC and her classmates learned like 10 colors in Spanish in pre-K just from his teacher saying them a few times during circle time and this was a play-based school where they didn't really have academics. If I had paid their high fees to have my child learn colors I would be pretty upset.

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I'm the PP who also did FLES Spanish.

Agree that they did a lot of coloring, which wasn't thrilling.  But, I will say that my kid did learn the colors in Spanish that way in K!  It does move slow, but I do think it's hard (impossible!) to teach a language one hour a week in school.

And, I completely agree that they should just add languages to every ES, instead of just the immersion programs.  If they makes kids take it in MS, it's silly not to start them young, when it's easier to learn.

I'm hoping to stick with FLES, just in case it helps DD out when she gets to MS.  At least she'll have been exposed to some Spanish words/pronunciations.  [/quote][/quote]

I'm the PP - you're definitely right, that they could be doing more.  I think the program could be better, but I'm not willing to travel elsewhere to expose my kid to another language, so we stick with it.

Though, I'm probably doing it a disservice by my description!  My kid did learn more than just colors.  Like the other PP said, they do learn a fairy tale - once it was Little Red Riding Hood, another was Three Little Pigs.  And, they repeat each lesson from week to week.  Also they did greetings, etc.[/quote]

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