Sonrisas Spanish School: An Early Childhood Spanish Language Curriculum Level 1 is a revision of the previous preschool and elementary curriculum.

It offers a complete program for teaching Spanish to students pre-K through first grade and includes the text and a music CD. This Spanish school curriculum is PERFECT for elementary schools and homeschoolers. This program includes an entire year of structured lessons with a complete explanation of how to use the curriculum, a combination of stories, art, dance, and music that appeals to the multiple intelligences, a musical CD, with accompanying lyrics, that supports each lesson in the book, detailed, easy-to-follow Lesson Plans and Art Projects that save you valuable time planning, useful assessment tools including Home Reports and an authentic assessment form, a proven methodology that combines pedagogical approaches such as The Natural Approach, Total Physical Response, and Waldorf techniques, coverage of standards from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). By appealing to each student's strengths through song, dance, reading, and art projects, Sonrisas Spanish School helps you create an environment in which language acquisition begins to thrive. Each lesson includes a Lesson Plan page, Art Project page, and a Home Report. There are 33 lessons, assessment, templates and an art supply list.

Sonrisas Level I includes: 

• two years worth of lessons for novice-level preschool and elementary Spanish
• an articulated scope and sequence View Scope and Sequence
• detailed, easy-to-follow lesson plans and art projects with procedure directions that tell you exactly what to do and save you valuable time planning View 2 Sample Lessons
  
• detailed assessment rubrics View Sample Assessment
  
• home reports for parents to support their child’s learning at home
• reproducibles for the art projects
• a combination of activities, stories, art, movement, music, and drama that engages students’ imaginations and multiple intelligences
• two musical CDs, with accompanying lyrics, that support each lesson in the book
• a proven methodology that is research and standards-based and combines pedagogical approaches such as the Natural Approach, Total Physical Response (TPR), Waldorf methods, Authentic Literature, and the Multiple Intelligences.
• Storybooks are not included in the curriculum. You can find them sold separately - outside reading to read to the children or simple enough for beginning readers to read - those still in print are listed under the category 'Spanish Beginning Readers - Thematic Readers'.
  

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