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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids in two different immersion programs. The first six months of kindergarten is ROUGH. Teachers start from day one in the target language. So get ready for a lot of meltdowns.

My kids both read in English later than their peers but caught up easily.

Teachers and programs have been great to us.

They take Spanish 1 in middle school (the same curriculum that high schoolers take).

Look at the various schools as some do give preference to the neighborhood. For example I think William Tyler Page holds about half the spots for neighborhood. During K orientation they were asking if anyone else from the neighborhood wanted to get into Spanish otherwise they were opening it up to the out of bounds waiting list.[/quote]
Does this mean that, assuming the one-way immersion students take all three years of Spanish in MS, that they will take Spanish 4 as their first Spanish class in HS?[/quote]

Yes, generally. My son is signed up for Spanish 4 for 9th grade.

I don't think middle school immersion Spanish students take exactly the same curriculum as high school though. For one thing, they already speak it, so their vocabulary is much higher than a Spanish 1 student in ninth grade. They don't get as much grammar as high schoolers and I've heard that can be a struggle when they get to Spanish 4. But Spanish 4 is taught in Spanish, and they are generally much more conversant than the students who started in 9th grade Spanish 1.

His 8th grade immersion teacher says she emphasizes grammar a lot because the immersion students can be weak in it. [/quote]

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