LANGUAGE IMMMERSION SUMMER CAMPS

SPANISH - ENGLISH - FRENCH - MANDARIN
Florida Summer Camp Program

Ages 5-17
*Italian offered as an After Camp Extracurricular Program

About our Language Immersion Summer Camp 2012

Our language immersion camp provides campers with the best of two worlds: Critical Thinking and Language Skills. Using the Natural Approach, this engaging program encourages creative thinking for Campers at all language levels. An open-ended multi-sensory approach stimulates language and cooperative learning.

Benefits

Fastest way of advancing in thinking and language skills.
Accelerated training techniques that produce fast results; personalized attention.
Active participation.

We will teach your child how to learn, how to keep his/her language skills, and how to use them in real life.
Our experienced staff members are culturally sensitive and trained in the LINGUA Methodology.
We can follow-up with our Year-Round After-School and Saturday Camp Language Programs, so campers keep their new language skills active.

Methodology

Language classes represent a major aspect of our language specialty camp. We believe that by exposing the child to the broad environment that the knowledge of a second language and other cultures bring about, he/she is provided with a gift that is an advantage for life, given the global environment in which today´s children will live tomorrow. Other camp activities reinforce language acquisition. Language classes are based on the Natural Approach Theory, which assumes that language is not acquired by traditional grammar and vocabulary lectures. The comprehensible input calls for the incorporation of stimuli representing the different levels of language acquisition; thus avoiding boredom, lack of self-esteem, or high anxiety about speaking the new language. Fluency results from a progression of four natural stages of language acquisition that resembles the same steps children follow when they learn their first language:
Reproduction: Children do not speak the language at all. Non-verbal responses are prompted.
Early Production: Children are just beginning to speak. One word responses are prompted.
Speech Emergence: Children put together short sentences.
Intermediate/Advanced Fluency: Children communicate in longer, more complex forms of expression

The way to engage children is to surround them with the new language through multi-sensory techniques (visual, auditory, and physical practice), so they can perceive through all their senses. They will be most motivated when they can see, hear, say, and feel the language. We apply multi-sensory techniques so that they do not only learn in their personal style but also feel thrilled about it. In this way, language acquisition evolves naturally. LinguaSM uses an innovative method that leads to rapid progress. It is interactive and dynamic.

Location

• Camp Lingua is located at Montessori Institute Of Broward during the months of June and July

Facility offers:

AIR-CONDITIONED CLASSROOMS
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM

• The English Day Summer Camp during the month of August is located at The Weston Town Center and Midtown Athletic Club in Weston
• Accomodations for the English Overnight Camp for the months of July and august will be at the Marriott Towne Place Suites

Town Center Address: 1725 Main street, suite 223, Weston, Fl 33326.

Midtown Athletic Club Address: 2300 Royal Palm Blvd  Weston, FL 33326.

Marriott Towne Place Suites Address: 1545 Three Village Road, Weston FL 33326.

Easy access from I-75, I-595 and the Sawgrass Expressway.

Our Staff

Counselors are native speakers, CPR &First Aid certified, and screened Our teachers are accredited and our experienced staff members are culturally sensitive and trained in the LINGUA Methodology

SCHOOL DIRECTOR - Andreina Ojeda
CAMP DIRECTOR - Johana Galavis
CAMP COORDINATOR - Natalia Pinzon & Ivette Rodriguez
TEACHERS - Milly Magasrevy, Kalebra Williams, Lindsay Fiddler, Sandra Rios, Matthew Macirjowski

COACH - Tomas Arroyo

HEAD COUNSELOR - Claudia Pretelt

Day Camp Activities:

Daily Language Classes - Spanish, English or French classes (Italian & Mandarin Chinese available as after camp programs).

Field Trips - One field trip per term (no language instruction on field trip days). 

Week 1: Flippers Movies - "Madagascar"

Week 2: Kabooms

Week 3: Monkey Joes

Week 4: Blue Foot Pirate Adventures

Week 5: C.B. Smith Water Park

Week 6: Planetarium & Flamingo Gardens

Week 7: Everglades Holiday Park

Week 8: Fort. Lauderdale Science Museum & IMAX "To the Artic" 

Language Lab - Spanish, English, French or Mandarin daily language lab reinforces material learned during class and language activities through games, role playing, videos, group activities, projects and more.

Special Events - Fridays are filled with surprises: disco party, water soccer, piñata party, special guests, cultural performance for parents, etc.

Sports & Outdoor Games - A variety of sports and outdoor games will be played, including basketball, softball, baseball, soccer, kickball, volleyball, and gymnastics

Water Games - Always a favorite summer camp activity! This is a fun activity on hot, sunny days.

Performing Arts - Dance, Music, Drama: Campers will practice role-playing, singing, dancing and many additional activities. These are good ways for them to get acquainted with the culture of the countries where their language of study is spoken and to practice skills learned in class. Also, these activities help them achieve better pronunciation and public speaking skills in their language of study.

Culture - Every week, we feature a different country where the language of study is spoken. We study the country´s people, geography, food, art, etc.

International Culinary Arts - This will entice our campers to experience culture through taste by participating in the preparation and tasting of foods from different countries where the language of study is spoken.

Arts & Crafts - Will introduce creative thought through arts and crafts related to the language of study.

Fun Games -Age appropriate. Includes board games and educational games that promote language acquisition.

Videos - Fun educational videos and entertaining programs and movies in the language of study.

*Rainy Day Activities: outdoors activities will be replaced with inside activities, such as any of the arts-related activities, gymnastics, educational and board game and educational videos, among others.

**Special events will be brought to camp according to the related theme for each week. All activities are related to language of study except for outdoor activities. French will ONLY be held during class and lab activities.

Other Overnight Camp Activities

Nightly activities and field trips, weekend field trips to local tourist spots. For example, local beaches, malls, movie theatres, museums, zoo, safari, aquarium, restaurants, bowling, skating, ranches, horseback riding, arcades, etc.

 Afternoon activities include: English tutoring and homework help, fitness classes such as yoga, Pilates, kick boxing, cardio, spinning, dance, Zumba, salsa, core training, etc. Other activities include tennis, Pilates reformer, squash, racquetball, basketball, swimming, and much more.