SPANISH IMMERSION



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| |Amazing Classrooms |

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|Female | Ayudan a tu cuerpo a crecer. |

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|Yvette Martel VO |When you walk down the hallway you could be in any Spanish speaking country. |

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|Yvette Martel VO | Y todos los partes de agua. |

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|Yvette Martel VO |So you're gonna hear Spanish throughout the building and we're in Milwaukee Wisconsin. |

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| |Spanish Immersion |

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|Yvette Martel VO | Buenos días. Gracias. Buenos días. |

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|Yvette Martel VO |This is a Milwaukee public school that people want to get into. |

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|Yvette Martel OC | Buenos días. Buenos días. |

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|Yvette Martel VO |You wouldn’t think in Milwaukee Wisconsin that you would have a Spanish Immersion school but|

| |yes. This program has been around for almost 30 years. Language immersion is… |

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| |Yvette Martel |

| |Principal, Spanish Immersion |

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| |…actually immersing the students in the language, whatever the second language is. Okay. |

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|Yvette Martel VO | Pueden caminar adentro. Caminando adentro. |

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|Yvette Martel VO/OC |Students are hearing it all the time and using it, it's a different program as opposed to |

| |like a bilingual program where those students would be dominant in the other language in |

| |Spanish for example. The students that come to an immersion program are dominant in an |

| |English language and then learn a foreign language. The difference students learn by doing.|

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|Yvette Martel VO | Buenos días. Por favor levántense para jurar a la bandera. |

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|Children VO | Juro fidelidad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de América.  |

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|Children VO |And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and |

| |justice for all. |

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|Yvette Martel VO |Milwaukee Spanish Immersion grades are from K4 up to fifth grade. |

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|Miriam Herrera OC | Nublado. Muéstrame nublado. Muy bien. |

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| |K4: Objects & Shapes |

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|Yvette Martel VO |When you come into K4 you are actually going to get the same curriculum that you would get |

| |in any regular school that only speaks in English. |

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|Miriam Herrera OC/VO | Van a colorear dos días soleado. ¿Por qué? ¿Por qué Michael? |

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|Michael VO | |

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|Miriam Herrera OC | Hoy. |

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|Michael VO | Hoy. |

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|Miriam Herrera OC | Es. |

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|Michael | Es soleado. |

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|Miriam Herrera | Soleado. Muy bien. |

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|Miriam Herrera VO/OC |Getting the response from the children from the students when you're working with them and |

| |you can see ah ha moments. Excelente. You know that… |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |Miriam Herrera |

| |K4 Teacher |

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| |…they know what you're talking about. So you see that discovery in them. |

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|Miriam Herrera VO/OC | Lunes es soleado. Puede leer. Lunes… |

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|Yvette Martel VO/OC |When you're immersed into something you just you just soak it up it just is amazing what |

| |these children understand. |

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|Gregory Thornton OC |And when you create an environment… |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |Dr. Gregory Thornton |

| |Superintendent: Milwaukee Public Schools |

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| |…that's engaging you create an environment that I think kids come away enriched. I think |

| |you're able to see some great outcomes for young people and the outcomes are apparent. |

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|Nina Miller OC | Esto no es una recta. Esto es una familia de operaciones. |

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| |1st Grade: Vocabulary |

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|Male With Blue Shirt VO |Apple. |

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|Nina Miller VO | Una manzana. Perfecto. |

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|Nina Miller VO/OC |It makes you a better teacher… |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |Awilda Aranda Nina Miller |

| |1st Grade Teachers |

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| |…because you don’t assume things. |

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|Awilda Aranda OC |Yeah and you really have to plan with detail. |

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|Awilda Aranda | Tres. Perfecto. Excelente. ¿Cómo se parece? Nueve el punto cuando |

| |empezamos. Excelente. |

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|Nina Miller OC | El papa. El bebé. La… Eso es. |

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|Female With Brown Hair OC | ¿Por qué si dices ocho más dos es diez pero haces dos más es 12? |

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|Nina Miller VO | Porque ahí tenemos el papa, la mama y el… |

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|Females OC | Bebé. |

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|Nina Miller | …el bebé. |

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|Michael Hoffman OC | Nueve. |

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|Adriana OC | Nueve. |

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|Michael Hoffman OC | Nueve. |

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|Michael Hoffman VO/OC |Part of our graduation requirement is spending two weeks at a service site and for two |

| |weeks… |

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| |Michael Hoffman |

| |High School Senior |

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| |…I'm working with these first graders for the full day. |

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|Male Voice VO |You never get settled. |

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|Michael Hoffman VO/OC |But Adriana has one. Working with kids was something I liked and then sort of the Spanish |

| |aspect was something that really interested me. I was raised speaking Spanish actually both |

| |of my parents speak Spanish. |

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|Female With White Shirt OC |Bingo. |

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|Michael Hoffman VO/OC |Okay increasingly globalized world it's better for jobs and understanding culture and just |

| |educationally you learn more about other people and about the world. |

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|Michael Hoffman OC | Ya casi. No. Menos. |

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|Female With Black Top OC | ¿Doce? |

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|Michael Hoffman OC | Doce. |

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|Awilda Aranda VO/OC |I think our school does a great job of showing kids how to appreciate the differences in |

| |cultures. They're also learning that in the Hispanic culture itself there are great |

| |differences in language and food and music. |

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| |Azucar Dance Group |

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|Toni Fink VO/OC |I am Senorita Toni Fink and I teach… |

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| |Azucar/5th Grade Teacher |

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| |…fifth grade at this school and I'm involved in lots of other activities, one is the Azucar |

| |Dance Group. Azucar is my favorite thing because it's playtime with the kids but still |

| |teaching so it's a lot different than being in the classroom with them. This is Pasa Doble |

| |this is very the top part is not moving, your feet are moving but it's very different. It's|

| |attitude we normally say no attitude in school this is the one chance we get to to your |

| |partner. So you have to have those checkpoints though because what happens is if you don’t |

| |it looks like a bunch of people. And let me tell you boys if you don’t do this strong |

| |enough it does look kind of goofy. Because it looks like this. And this is about a |

| |bullfighter. I think the Hispanic culture is very expressive they're very touchy feely |

| |everything is very emotional very fiery and passionate and I think in the dances you can |

| |really get it out. So they learn textbook about the culture and it's it's something they |

| |can do with the culture. I mean we've all had textbooks and read and read and read and you |

| |know you do your project on the poster board and all that stuff which is fun but they can |

| |actually do something cultural with the dance. Ariana's looking good remember eye contact |

| |the whole time, last one. It's a way for them to connect to the language in a social way |

| |too. You know as they get into fourth and fifth grade it's not always as cool to be |

| |speaking in Spanish and all that, but in the music the music is cool. Nice all right back |

| |to the beginning spot, okay ready. Five six seven eight lunge, up ladies around to the |

| |front, two. It's fun and it should be fun because it's dance and it's moving but it's my |

| |way to be with the kids in a playful manner outside of the classroom and you know a little |

| |bit more informal. One two three. Nice. |

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| |K5: Reading |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | Russ. |

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|Class VO | Russ. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | En. |

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|Class VO | En. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | La. |

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|Class VO | La. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | Estación. |

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|Class VO | Estación. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | De. |

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|Class VO | De. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | Bomberos. |

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|Class VO | Bomberos. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | Russ en la estación… |

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|Yvette Martel VO/OC |Every day is a child learning new vocabulary and understanding a little bit more of the |

| |Spanish language. Understanding more and more and it's amazing when the light bulb goes on |

| |and they're looking at you and going wow I understand that now. I understand what I'm |

| |supposed to do. Or wow I'm reading and I'm reading in Spanish and I'm going home and I'm |

| |teaching my mom and dad Spanish. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | ¿Qué significa trabajar? |

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|Class VO |Work. |

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|Female With Frizzy Hair VO | Russ fue a trabajar a una estación de bomberos. Buenos días bombero. |

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|Joandy Williams VO | ¿Dónde está la ? Porque hablamos esto antes de empezar el |

| |cuento. ¿Dónde está? ¿Está al norte? A ver. |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |3rd Grade: Comprehension |

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|Joandy Williams VO |You definitely do have to be animated, you do definitely have to act out a lot of things |

| |because you don’t want to revert to English when you're teaching Spanish and you want the |

| |kids to get it. |

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|Joandy Williams VO | No. Todavia no estás empujando. |

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|Joandy Williams VO/OC |For example the word arrastrar arrastrarse means to drag. One of the |

| |girls was rolling or pushing or shoving the dog and I'm like no that's not arrastrar… |

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| |Joandy Williams |

| |3rd Grade Teacher |

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| |…so I had another one of the students actually help her out to figure out what that meant. |

| |It is challenging in a way that what you plan on teaching you have to make room and time to |

| |teach both. In both languages. For example we have English weeks and we have Spanish |

| |weeks. The skills that we teach are pretty much the same they do overlap there may be some |

| |differences in the grammar that we teach. |

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|Joandy Williams OC | No se . No se ponen como un grupo juntos. No están juntos|

| |porque están… |

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|Gregory Thornton VO/OC |I think parent engagement is the insulating factor that allows this to happen. I'm of the |

| |belief if I was to say you know we're gonna pull the plug on Spanish Immersion I think the |

| |folks would be down in my office kind of knocking the doors down. |

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| |2nd Grade: Science |

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|Madelyn Acevedo OC/VO | Se mantienen saludables. ¿Cierto o falso? |

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|Class VO | Cierto. |

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|Madelyn Acevedo OC/VO | importante para empezar… |

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|Madelyn Acevedo VO/OC |It takes dedication it takes what it's really wants you… |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |Madelyn Acevedo |

| |2nd Grade Teacher |

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| |…to do for them if you really enjoy what are you doing. I love what I'm doing I want my |

| |kids to learn what I know. |

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|Madelyn Acevedo OC | Nosotros masticamos varias veces con mucho cuidado. Y tragamos baja |

| |completamente, ¿verdad? |

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|Alina VO/OC |I think the kids understand it a little more… |

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| |Alina |

| |2nd Grader |

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| |…when she acts out like what where the tube is and where the stomach is and stuff. |

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|Madelyn Acevedo OC | La palabra dijerir, la palabra dijerir es cuando ya tu estás |

| |comenzando a comer tu alimento. |

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|Nathan OC |Once you learn Spanish… |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |Nathan |

| |1st Grader |

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| |…and English then it's gonna get easier connected and then you can talk two languages to two|

| |people. |

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|Isaac OC |I started coming here in K4… |

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| |Isaac |

| |5th Grader |

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| |…and I like that like with we get to learn how to speak Spanish because it will help us get |

| |a better job like in the future because a lot more people are speaking Spanish now. |

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|Isaac OC | Por qué la suma de los dígitos no es divisible por tres. |

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| |5th Grade: Math |

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|Toni Fink VO/OC | Excelente. Me gusta como dijo eso. |

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|Toni Fink VO/OC |They're well rounded they're more compassionate I think having to learn about a different |

| |culture and language makes them more patient with learning because they've had to learn |

| |double. |

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|Toni Fink VO | Aquí con que número. |

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|Class VO | Uno. |

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|Toni Fink VO | Siempre van a hacer números… |

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|Female Voice VO | Primos. |

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|Toni Fink VO | …primos. |

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|Miriam Herrera VO/OC |We live in a world that is smaller than it's ever been and where can you go that they aren't|

| |speaking more than one language I mean anywhere in the world? |

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|Gregory Thornton OC |When you begin to talk about this whole issue of a global economy a global society we're |

| |positioning young people to take their place in as a participant in that economy and in the |

| |world. |

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|John Nekich OC |Basketball all right here comes the basketball group. My name is John Nekich I'm the |

| |physical education teacher here. And I also coordinate the organized recess program called |

| |S.O.A.R. It's basically a program designed to decrease… |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |John Nekich |

| |Phys Ed/S.O.A.R. |

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| |…behavior problems outside and kind of increase the the amount of physical activity that |

| |kids get. |

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|John Nekich VO/OC |We do encourage that they are involved in something. That's kind of like the overall |

| |philosophy you got to be doing something and it kind of eliminates the the digging in the |

| |sand or the sitting in the corner and the chasing and irritating others. As long as they're|

| |involved in something and they know where their area is, that's kind of the whole concept. |

| |These guys are shooting baskets here, and here the fourth and fifth graders they're gonna be|

| |setting up a game called Octopus. These are the snow shoers. Okay we have to shout it |

| |altogether. The school brings kids from many different backgrounds many different |

| |neighborhoods and different ethnicities and it's just it's just kind of a neat mix. |

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|Victoria Seewald VO | Anderias?Adornar. ¿Qué quiere decir adornar? ¿Anderias? |

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| |4th Grade: Social Studies |

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|Anderias VO | Decorar. |

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|Victoria Seewald VO | Decorar. |

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|Victoria Seewald VO |By fourth of fifth grade they're reading both English and Spanish. They're able to |

| |converse. |

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|Female With Pink Shirt OC |How? |

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|Victoria Seewald VO | ¿Cómo? Es una buena idea. |

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|Victoria Seewald VO/OC |They have to look for and understand and get deeper into the information that's there in |

| |order for them to understand it and I think that even if they weren't to continue with the |

| |language program that's a skill that… |

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| |GRAPHICS ON SCREEN |

| |Victoria Seewald |

| |4th Grade Teacher |

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| |…we all need to problem solve and to be able to look deeper at the heart of the problem and |

| |be able to solve it. |

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|Victoria Seewald VO | ¿Qué le recuerda a Don Roberto el periquito cantor? ¿De que memoria |

| |es ese periquito? |

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|Victoria Seewald VO |We've got families and parents that care about not only their children and their education |

| |but the staff and the teachers and everybody who is here. It's it really is a home. |

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|Yvette Martel VO | ¿Preguntas? |

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|Female Voice VO | No. |

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|Yvette Martel VO | OK. Excelente. |

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|Yvette Martel VO |I spend a lot of time here, not because I have to but because I like to. You have to have a|

| |passion you really have to to love the kids and love the teaching and love knowing that |

| |you're going to give the kids at Spanish Immersion a skill that's gonna take them places. |

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|Gregory Thornton VO/OC |Everybody's writing to the teacher and what are you gonna say to the teacher? |

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|Female With Green Shirt VO |That I want no homework. |

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|Gregory Thornton OC/VO |Homework's cool didn't they tell you that? I'm not gonna have to defend this one there's |

| |some givens, there's some nonnegotiables that I have and one of my nonnegotiable quality |

| |programs are not on the chopping block. Give me one thing you learned today and tell me in |

| |Spanish tell me in Spanish. |

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|Female With Striped Shirt OC | Matemáticas. |

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|Male With Gray Shirt VO | Matemáticas. |

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|Gregory Thornton OC |Okay that's all all right I got it, all right. Getting to talk about what are the skills |

| |that we want our youngsters to have for the 21st century well I see those things that mean |

| |kids working together collaborative thinking, sharing of intellectual ideas. That's what |

| |this thing is about and I see those things apparent. The important thing is I think the |

| |human support and the human participation that's here is it's unparalleled. |

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|Isaac OC | Cinco. |

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|Male With Brown Shirt OC | Habla en español. |

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|Female With Check Shirt OC |Okay. |

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