Hoover World Language & Cultural Program: October 2009

Saturday, October 24, 2009

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

Hoover WLCP

The WLCP at Hoover Elementary strives to introduce and educate our children (Grades K-6) about different languages and cultures through workbooks, classroom participation, games, songs and class time projects. Classes meet at Hoover, but are not part of the “official” school day. In an effort to make the classes available to everyone tuition is kept as low as possible, typically only to meet cost. As it works out this year, each ½ hour session will cost $5 or less as compared to a private sector cost of up to four times that amount. This year, for the first time, we are able to now offer a Kindergarten unit that will introduce our children to our three languages: French, German and Spanish. The WLCP is a special project of the Hoover PTA and is coordinated by volunteer parents. See other side for curriculum details and program dates. A minimum number of students are needed for each course to be offered.