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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is in an immersion Spanish school.  It’s 100% immersion prek3 to K.  Then in 1st it is 50% immersion and 50% English.  They alternate days so the whole day is immersion and not back and forth.

We don’t speak any Spanish.  So to supplement, he does do Spanish summer camp for 4 weeks.  We are planning on starting 4 weeks Spanish camp abroad in the next 1-2 years. He also watches shows and movies in Spanish as recommended by the school.

His school has high expectations for the kids for Spanish.  All the staff including admin is native speaking except for only 2 that I can think of.  At school, you will hear staff speaking Spanish in the hallways and not English.  The school has about 1/3rd native speaking students or students with families who are fluent in Spanish.

He started in K and just finished 5th grade.  His accent is really good and he is doing well.  He understands everything and his speaking and writing is pretty good as per feedback from his teachers.  At 10, he took the seal of biliteracy test and scored intermediate.  He will be starting a 6-12 school in the fall and will be able to continue with Spanish.  We are hoping he  is interested in earning the IB diploma.

It is hard to tell so early if a kid picks up languages easily but it seems like our kid is doing well.  I agree that if fluency is the goal then you have to supplement if you are not native speaking.  The families who are not Hispanic at our school who we know are fluent did peace corps abroad or study abroad or lived abroad, etc..[/quote]

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