Welcome to our Spanish Immersion Summer Camp

LanguageArts and Claudia Topete-Sanchez would like to welcome you to our Spanish Immersion Summer Camp.

Claudia has been teaching Spanish in the after school program at Ohlone Elementary School, a Montessori inspired Charter School in Palo Alto, for the past 15 years. Claudia loves to inpire the hearts and minds of children through her holistic approach to teaching, evoking in them a love for learning and igniting in them the spark of curiousity which makes it fun and exciting to learn a new language.

Her B.A. in Music and Pedagogical Studies from the National University of Mexico is a perfect support for her teaching style, which envolves a lot of rhythmic enforcement to create a link between a musical rhythm and the rhythm of the language in order to absorb and retain different language patterns and parts of speech more easily.

Claudia believes that it is essential to help children to build up their confidence and self- esteem in order to approach a new language and she, in her own words, "never leaves a child behind."

She has implemented the Spanish language program for the Mexican Cultural Institute at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington D.C., in addition to teaching in the after school program at various elementary schools in the Palo Alto and Menlo Park School districts. Her teaching experiences include tutoring of all age groups and at all difficulty levels, including AP test preparations.

The following courses are available with Claudia in the summer:

I. Spanish Immersion Summer Camp

June to August:

• "Myself, my day and the people around me"(June/August).
• "Yo, mi dia y la gente a mi alrededor."
• (Comunicative goals include: presenting oneself, asking for information about people, talking about family and friends, describing a person, expressing feelings...).

July:

• "Myself, my activities and the world around me."
• (Communicative goals include: asking for directions, giving directions, asking for objects, talking about prices, thanking, saying sorry, verb practice ...).

Classes run weekly Mondays through Fridays June 18th through August 10th either 9-12pm or 2-5pm.
In order to form the class we need a minimum of 6 students per week, maximum are 8 students per class. Possibility of 2-3 days per week only is also given.

Costs are: $225 pre-registration discount per week per child, $250 after May 21st.

II. Jump Start into Spanish
An introductory Spanish course for students who will be entering Spanish at school in the fall and would like to feel more confident and relaxed about the new language. The class will introduce basic sentence structures, basic vocabulary and conversational excersises all in an age appropriate, fun context.

Times and days for the class will be decided in mutual agreement between teacher and students.

Rates:
Private: $55 per hour
Semi-private: $35 per hour per student
Group (3-5 students): $25 per hour per student

III. Middle and High School Spanish Review and Preview
A class concentrating on reviewing language structures, which present more difficulty to the student. Since classes are small we encourage the input of students and parents, so we can tailor the class to the specific needs of the students. Depending on the students needs we either work with our materials or materials provided by the students.

Times and days for the class will be decided in mutual agreement between teacher and students.

Rates:
Private: $55 per hour
Semi-private: $35 per hour per student
Group (3-5 students): $25 per hour per student