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To them, it’s really just plain FUN!
To us, it’s a mission:
To help young people discover intelligent FUN
through educational hands-on workshops exploring different branches of art, science and technology.

ART * COOKING * SPANISH * MUSIC * SCIENCE * TECHNOLOGY

YPW offers workshops for young people 2-15 yrs. of age to delve into topics that interest them. Choosing among them? — That’s the hard part.
Having fun and expanding your child’s creativity, confidence and future success — just comes natural.
These hands-on workshops help teach language development, knowledge and understanding of the world, physical development, social & emotional development, art, mathematics, science & technology.

By popular demand YPW offers beginner to advanced level Full-Immersion Spanish workshops for young people from preschool to high school age. “Full-Immersion” means the workshops, including all instructions and activities, are conducted entirely in Spanish. YPW Spanish instructors are trained in early education and are also native Spanish speakers. Even beginner students quickly become comfortable with this method of learning and absorb the Spanish language at a much more rapid rate than if learning by hearing two languages concurrently.

As with all workshops at YPW, the Full-Immersion Spanish workshops are “hands-on fun.” Students learn through singing songs, role-playing, and playing games. Visual aids help further the learning process.
Each student is encouraged to participate verbally during question-and-respond sessions.
Workshops are grouped by proficiency level and age.
Young people who already speak some Spanish, will be interviewed by the appropriate instructor to determine workshop placement.
YPW encourages young people enrolled in YPW Full-Immersion Spanish workshops to keep speaking Spanish! Toward that end, workshops include take-home material for continued review.

Come Discover Intelligent Fun today!

SPANISH

YPW offers fun, play based, full immersion Spanish Language workshops for toddlers, preschoolers and school age children. Young People from 18 months to 12 years attend our morning or afternoon Spanish workshops on their choice of day(s) from Sunday through Friday.
Thanks to our carefully developed curriculum, special method, small classes of 4 – 8 children and our excellent team of native speaking teachers, your young people will learn Spanish naturally, in a fun, engaging environment.

  • Our Spanish curriculum is packaged with art projects, games, relay races, cooking projects, drama, singing, and more, all designed to appeal to a young child’s sense of discovery and fun.
  • This hands-on, interactive, high-energy approach ensures that children are motivated and engaged while learning at the same time.
  • Monthly themes such as Dinosaur Land, Transportation, Going to the Zoo, UnderWater World and more, contextualize the learning experience for children.
  • Our teachers use dramatic presentation, miming, gestures, facial expressions and silliness to enhance both comprehension and fun.
  • The curriculum, with its varied activities, and the teaching style, with its demonstrative approach, foster in children a positive attitude toward language learning.

TRY A FREE WORKSHOP! SEND AN EMAIL TO SPANISH@YOUNGPEOPLESWORKSHOPS.COM OR
CALL 329 5611 TO SIGN UP YOUR YOUNG PEOPLE FOR A FREE TRIAL SESSION.

 

WHY IMMERSION?

  • The full immersion approach takes advantage of children’s unique ability to absorb the foreign language naturally, the way they absorbed English.
  • In a full immersion setting, children learn a second language without having to translate
  • The window of opportunity, where the brain is hard-wired to learn language naturally, exists from birth to approximately adolescence.
  • Our native-speaking teachers use the foreign language for the entire session, taking advantage of a young child’s ability to mimic native accents flawlessly.
  • We use bright, clear visuals, dynamic gestures, miming, vivid facial expressions, and dramatic voices to facilitate comprehension in the context of 100% immersion.
  • Children are encouraged to actively use the foreign language throughout the course of each session.
  • We provide consistent language clues, use choice questions, model answers and prompt group repetition to help children speak the new language.
  • We use a system of rhythmic chanting to promote retention and retrieval of new words and key language structures.
  • We use key phrases —simple, well articulated, consistent phrases—to promote comprehension and speaking.
  • Our small groups of 4-8 children foster individualized learning; our teachers challenge each child to develop comprehension, basic verbal skills and increased spontaneous speech at his or her own pace.
  • In this multi-level learning environment, newcomers learn from peer-models while more experienced children build confidence and leadership alongside more advanced language skills.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

YPW curriculum presents the Spanish language in phrases, simple sentences and target structures. We believe that language instruction for children must go beyond simple vocabulary lists to functional language. We want to give children the tools to express themselves simply in another language.

Teaching children language in functional chunks such as, “Mi nombre es____,” or “Yo quiero______” allows children to assimilate and communicate global meaning before breaking language down into its discrete grammatical parts. Linguistic research shows that children retain and retrieve language best in chunks, rather than in individual words; this approach enables them to communicate more fully, sooner.

The key components of our curriculum include:

Language Chunks: equipping children right away with functional language through key phrases and language chunks rather than just vocabulary lists

Sheltered language: using slower, well-articulated language and consistent phrasing to facilitate comprehension

Rhythm: setting key phrases and structures to rhythm as a retention and retrieval tool

Repetition: repeating key phrases and structures to reinforce retention

Constant language: optimizing exposure time to the language by providing maximum input

Positive reinforcement: rewarding children with praise at every level of participation and skill to foster a positive, can-do attitude toward language learning

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