2013 - 2014 Instructors!

Hoover families,

I want to introduce our instructors for this year.

German - Tammy Kirchner
French - Elizabeth Carroll
Spanish - Rosario Merida Prieto

As of now, we have a total of 11 students enrolled in the program.  We understand that Orchestra practice is Wednesday mornings are we are working to find a solution that works for all as both programs are very important to our students.

As soon as we have biographies of the instructors, we will post them here and will also email them to those who have registered for class.

These women are excited to start and ready to teach our students!

Hoover Headlines

Check out this week's Hoover Headlines for information about the program!

Language Classes Restarting!

Hi! Just a reminder that all our language classes start-up again on Tuesday next week.

The Kindergarten class is now done with French and moving on to Spanish with Carl Brown.

Do let me know of any questions. --John

Spanish Update

Hola a todos ...

If you only read this paragraph ... we have a request! We would like you to send one of two things with your child on Thursday ... either a family photograph (that can be cut up and used in class) or a listing of family relatives (name and relation) that they can use (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.). We will practice our Family vocabulary with a family tree activity, and the photos/lists will be useful.

Also, your child came home today with a page of vocabulary related to the Family. Please see if you can help them answer any of the questions on the back side. Some of you know a little Spanish, and can help them out. Others have French or Italian, or some other language to fall back on. Do your best, and don't worry if you can't get through all of the questions.

After a week off over Thanksgiving, we've got this week and next before we take a break until after the holidays. Tiffany and I wanted to send you an update of what we've been looking at so far. Hopefully all of the children are bringing their blue folders to class each day, since from time to time we add pages. We thought it would be good, though, to give you a list of the pages that each student should show in their folder so far:

1 - Frases importantes - Important phrases

2 - Dibujo de Halloween - Halloween drawing (different children have different pictures, so they won't all have the same page)

3 - La calavera - A Day of the Dead skull drawing

4 - Los números - Numbers

5 - El abecedario - The alphabet

6 - Bingo del abecedario - Alphabet Bingo

7 - La familia - The family

Thanks, and tell the children we'll see them on Thursday!

Paco y Tiffany

Welcome to the Hoover WLCP Blog! We hope that you find this fun as well as informative. This is the first year that we have posted a blog, so bear with us as we start and continue to add information and pictures.

We are very excited about this year as we are able to offer Spanish I and II, German I and II and French. In addition to those classes, we are offering a Kindergarten class. They will be exposed to all three languages throughout the year. We have four amazing instructors who are eager to start. Their biographies are on the blog and, as you can see, they are all very experienced.

Please feel free to contact one of the parent volunteers if you have any questions or are interested in participating in the program.

Thank you!

Sara Eisenberg 319-533-3702 (cell) seisenberg@lightwaves.net

John Rutherford 384-0793 (work) kjrutherford01@gmail.com