Why Chiquitos?
Montessori“Your child will learn most through her own activity. Try to give her experiences that will awaken all her senses: the more she can touch and see, hear and smell, the better” (Maria Montessori). Maria Montessori believed that only the real education that a person receives is from her/his own internal motivation and natural curiosity to learn. In a Montessori classroom the child has the opportunity to choose freely, therefore he/she feels the excitement of learning through his/her own motivation instead of being forced. Working in this way, children prepare themselves for future learning experiences. Acquiring knowledge in this way is a pleasant experience for the child. Children use all their senses to explore and absorb the environment that surrounds them.
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BilingualA child in the first six years of his/her life has a mind that functions very differently from an adult’s mind: It appears to absorb vast amounts of information without any effort on the part of the child. At birth the child cannot speak any language, yet by three he/she has formed the basis of his/her language and by six has command of a wide vocabulary. We know that provided a child has an opportunity to hear language in this period, he/she will learn not just one language but as many as he/she is exposed to. In many parts of the world children of six are fluent in as many as three different languages. Not only do they learn the vocabulary of each language, but they can also produce perfect sounds. No matter how long you took as an adult to learn a language you would never quite perfect the sounds in the way that a child can (Lawrence, 1998).
According to Dr. Glenn Doman (1963) children are more sensitive in learning a foreign language before the age of six. They have the incredible capacity of learning as many as five languages at one time, acquiring them naturally as their first language, with native-like pronunciation. Learning a second language at an early age increases the neurological connections of the children’s brain augmenting their intelligence and their potential. It also equips them with better school performance, more creativity and higher reasoning and cognitive skills. |
Why Spanish?Approximately 470 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native.
The United States is now the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Mexico. "Más 'speak spanish' que en España". Retrieved October 6, 2007. (in Spanish). |
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Multidisciplinary ProgramThe fundamental homework of education is to induce possibilities. We firmly believe in the high potential of the child and also know that the small children who learn diverse disciplines at the same time like: chess, gymnastics, music, dance, languages, speech, develop more creativity and intelligence than the children that do not have these opportunities. Intelligence is the result of education. If our children receive a dynamic, enthusiastic, and loving education they will develop better.
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