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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got the sense that 80/20 would mean everything would be in Spanish except for English class (reading/writing) for K and 1st.  I have a kindergartener in APS immersion and have no problem with them switching Lunch, Art, Music and PE to Spanish--that would probably help further immerse my Spanish-learning student.  I see zero downside.

In older grades, the percentage of Spanish drops so I was assuming that additional instruction in English would be core content for SOLs, like social studies, history and science.  Hopefully they would keep specials in Spanish--there's no reason to switch those to English.

My biggest concern with immersion thus far is that the English language reading and writing instruction seems to be far behind what my other child had at our neighborhood APS elementary.  It's January and they're still doing letter of the week, with no actual reading groups, reading instruction, or expectation that the kids write anything beyond copying words and writing their names.[/quote]

This is not our experience at all regarding English language reading and writing - our son is in early elementary at Claremont and they are doing reading groups and other skills based work (and have been since mid-fall at least). He is also being sent home chapter books based on his interests (by his teacher) and being given other more advanced reading materials / worksheets / projects in his classroom. [/quote]

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