Universe of Colors, San Francisco Bay Area: Universe of Colors provides foreign language immersion programs in Spanish for Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary school children. We are located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area in downtown San Mateo, and we offer you the world when it comes to teaching your child a foreign language. We also offer full immersion programs in French, Italian and Spanish. We would like to invite you to Universe of Colors, where your child will explore the world through fun and engaging activities, and also gain all the benefits of learning in a foreign language.
In-House Programs in San Mateo: We offer Spanish Immersion classes with before and after care until 6pm. Afternoon Classes for Kindergarten and Elementary: Our after school enrichment classes are for Kindergarten and Elementary School children. In them, we will introduce your child to a new language with a fun after school program. Our classes provide extracurricular hands-on activities in small groups that foster participation. The curriculum is based on age-appropriate activities and materials that create an active, dynamic, and creative environment.
School Break Language Camp Programs: In addition to our regular in-house programs, we offer Summer Camps from June through August. Each week features a special theme. You may sign up for all or just pick and choose the weeks you would like your child to attend. We offer full day and half-day programs, and before & after camp care. Space is limited during our summer camps so we recommend early sign up. Camps include:
- Fall Camps - Mid Winter Camp - Spring Camps - Summer Camps (weekly)
Classes at Your Location: We not only have classes at our San Mateo location, but we can also come to you. Our instructors can conduct classes after school hours at a location of your choice.
Classes at School: We will gladly work with your PTA to arrange 45-minute to 1 hour foreign language immersion classes at your private or public school. We will introduce the new language in a fun and engaging program for kindergartners (5-6 years old) through 5th graders (11-12 years old).
The age-appropriate and interactive curriculum is filled with fun activities that develop gross motor and social skills. The small class size and focus on listening and speaking will give the child the confidence to start using the language in an easy and informal environment.
Home-schooling Groups: For Preschool age children we provide the same curriculum as our in-house programs in 45 minutes to 1 hour long sessions. For Kindergartners and Elementary school students we provide 1 to 2 hour classes.
Classes at Community Centers: Learning a second language has to be fun! In this immersion program children will enjoy and learn a second language through music, art, active play, dramatic play, puppets and more. Basic skills and concepts, actions and expressions, greetings, everyday active words and sentences, letters and numbers will be introduced. No prior language experience is needed.
Situated in Alameda CA, Bay Language Academy provides beginner to advanced level classes and after school programs to children and adults in a variety of languages. We currently offer Spanish, Mandarin, French, Japanese, Italian, Korean, English, German and Arabic.
Focusing on the specific needs of students and their parents, the classes are offered once, twice or three times weekly after school in 75 to 150-minute sessions. Parents are informed after each class of what was covered and what is expected from the young students for the next session.
The overall method is based on a modular teaching with an approach based on task, where a balance between practice and theory is achieved. The aim is to develop effective communication skills through the elementary development of the four basic language known skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Our instructors are trilingual, share a passion for languages and provide instruction through an engaging set of media interactive games, songs, art projects, total physical response and classical games. Our team of educators are either linguists who hold Bachelor's degree with certifications, Master's degree, Ph. D degree or are credentialed teachers.
Languages include:
- Spanish
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Arabic
- Japanese
- French
- German
- Italian
- Russian
- Korean
Specific courses include:
- After-school Program
- Beginner (for children who only speak English)
- Beginner (for children whose parents speak the foreign language)
- Intermediate (for children who only speak English)
- Intermediate (for children whose parents speak the foreign language)
- Child Advanced
Learn Spanish in West Los Angeles, between Culver City and Santa Monica, and just 10 minutes west of Downtown LA.
Sallies Spanish School provides beginner to advanced level Spanish language courses to children ages 6-17.
We offer a range of total immersion Spanish language acquisition programs that helps children understand their world, learn new vocabulary and develop the skills necessary to speak Spanish.
We accept students at all proficiency levels. Spanish tutoring is available to help students maintain and improve their proficiency. Classes are tailored to individual student needs.
Let’s Play in Spanish or Juguemos en Español is a Spanish language immersion program for kids up to age 7, based in Campbell, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with many other locations throughout the country. Courses include Reading & Writing in Spanish, Conversation Classes, Mommy & Me classes, after-school classes, and more.
Created by Susy Dorn, Let's Play Spanish is a place where children learn Spanish in a fun way. As part of our philosophy in teaching Spanish for children, we believe in music and laughter as the most effective way kids learn and grow.
Families in Campbell, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz and San Francisco have enjoyed our parent-child participation classes throughout the years and we have motivated thousands to learn to speak Spanish by singing and playing in Spanish. We continue to compose music, create original games and inspire children to sing, laugh and play in Spanish.
Spanish Full Immersion Programs for Children Ages 2-7:
- Conversation classes
- Reading and Writing in Spanish
- "Mommy & Me" Parent-Child participation classes
- Spanish Dancing
- After-school Spanish
- We also provide limited Spanish Baby Programs for toddlers, 10-24 mths
- We can organise Spanish Classes in your school upon request
• With language schools in downtown San Francisco and Menlo Park in the Bay Area, ABC Languages provides both private and group Arabic lessons for kids and teens.
• We also offer private Arabic lessons in your home for kids living throughout San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and Peninsula region of San Francisco Bay Area, including in San Jose, Palo Alto, San Mateo, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and surrounding areas.
• ABC Languages learner-centered methods and effective lessons focus on attaining authentic Arabic language skills that can be used in the real world.
• Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the focus of these classes, allowing students to use their language skills in any Arabic-speaking country. However, if you would like to focus on another dialect, such as Moroccan or Lebanese, we can provide private lessons.
• Our one-on-one language lessons are the most intensive way to immerse students in the Arabic language.
• Our instructors are native speakers of the language they teach. Our teachers encourage lively conversations, role-play and games in Arabic, so that our students learn Arabic in a natural way.
• ABC is highly experienced in teaching languages and was voted “Best of the Bay Area” by SFGate users.
• We also offer instruction in Farsi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish among other languages.
Lango Foothills with several convenient locations in the Greater Los Angeles area, is a language school offering Spanish classes to children. Children's language programs are rapidly gaining in popularity as parents realize that teaching a second language to their kids helps enhance their cognitive development, resulting in better grades and higher test scores later in life. Parents are also drawn to increasing their children's cultural awareness to help them succeed in our multi-cultural society.
Our Spanish language classes are located conveniently throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area in Glendale, La Cañada, La Crescenta, San Marino, Pasadena and South Pasadena, Southern California.
La Casita de Niños provides Spanish language immersion programs for children ages 1-13 at our school in the Allied Gardens area of north-east San Diego.
We teach not only academic skills, but also values and habits such as respect for the people and environment around them.
Spanish language is introduced to children in a natural way during our interactions in daily routines, learning activities and cultural events.
Our commitment with the families is to make them feel confident that their children are receiving the best care and education.
Spanish Language Immersion Programs:
- For kids ages 1-13
Age Groups:
- 3-4 years old
- 5-6 years old
- 7-8 years old
School Features:
- Nurturing relationship with each child
- Safe materials, equipment and environment
- Variety of developmental appropriate learning experiences
- Positive guidance, supporting social and emotional development