WORLD LANGUAGE & LIBRARY PROGRAM

Spanish

Wesley Prep believes that students should be given the opportunity to study a language other than English to gain awareness, appreciation, understanding, and respect for other cultures in order to better participate in a global community.

Spanish welcome

To these ends, our Spanish program focuses on the acquisition of the ability to communicate in meaningful and appropriate ways with users of the Spanish language.

  • The Wesley Prep Spanish curriculum is based on communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities.

  • The program follows the natural sequence of language learning: listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a cultural context.

    • For Kindergarten through Sixth Grade, Spanish is taught in the classroom twice per week by a teacher fluent in the language.

    • The QTalk method of language instruction is used with Kindergarten and Primer students

    • The ¡Viva el Español! Sytems A and B are used with first through fourth grade students.

    • The Realidades Book A is used with fifth and sixth grade students.

All systems are complemented with songs, videos, games, art, presentations, and other activities that appeal to children.

Library

By encouraging our students to be independent learners, they will appreciate literature and will be able to seek out information on their own as they recognize the importance of information to our society. Resourcefulness is an important trait that will benefit our students for life.

Library with students

Our Library program integrates with classroom instruction, beginning with our preschool children. During scheduled library time, we reinforce listening, literature appreciation, reading comprehension by using the AR program, library skills, research skills, the writing process, access to knowledge about their own culture and others, and access to library reference materials.

  • Students have regular and ready access to media service, materials and equipment which they may use individually or in a group. By building on previously learned material from the year before, and by using a hands-on approach for practical experience, we are able to support the development of the whole child.

  • Students will locate and use important areas of the library such as:

    • circulation area, online catalog, periodicals, reference materials, non-fiction and biographies.

    • students starting in first grade will use the Dewey Decimal System to locate library books.

  • Students will be exposed to a variety of literary genres such as mysteries, fantasy, historical, realistic fiction, folktales, poetry, and biographies.

  • Students will learn to read for pleasure or to acquire information.

  • Students will participate in the annual "Panthers Pause To Read" Day.

Library services are available Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., providing accessibility to book browsing, check-out, research and technology.