DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILD
TO REALLY SPEAK SPANISH?
With my “Spanish in Action” Immersion Program, they will!
My name is Maria Ure and I am a native of Argentina. I have designed and created the Spanish in Action Immersion Program. I have been successfully teaching children Spanish since 1986 in preschools and elementary schools in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Palos Verdes, Torrance and Los Angeles, CA, as well as in Evanston and Lake Forest, IL.I designed my program with the purpose of providing children with a fun, yet highly academic learning experience. With that in mind, I create a stimulating, encouraging, and positive environment where I promote, with much enthusiasm, the learning of the language. This is done by teaching a specific lesson and then re-enforcing the lesson by playing games, singing songs, acting out scenarios, utilizing many visual aids, doing arts and crafts, and reading stories. Combining various activities allows the children to practice new words in situations that arise in every day life, that way they can take their knowledge from the classroom to the real world.
Studies have shown that children exposed to a second language before the age of six have a much greater ability to learn the language than adults do. The secret resides in their natural disposition to use all senses in the learning process. My teaching philosophy encourages them to participate in class by using their eyes (visual aids), their words (speaking), their hands (touching objects and materials), their ears (listening to me and to each other) and their whole bodies to express motions, feelings and interpret songs.