Creative Spanish
Creative Spanish is a fun and educational total immersion Spanish program. Our goal is for our students to learn and continue to build on their knowledge of Spanish in order to increase their fluency and competency. The program has been developed by professionals with extensive experience in foreign language education to meet the needs of kindergarten and school age children. Our interactive classes include: arts and crafts, science, music and dance, traditional games, storytelling, and concentrate on expanding vocabulary while developing reading and writing skills.
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Check out Creative Spanish on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland. They host both Summer Camps and After school programs.
My kids have all gone to Colibri (one of the owners also runs Creative Spanish and many families just move from one program to the other) the oldest did a few weeks of Creative Spanish summer camp. Juliana, the owner, is awesome. She loves encouraging kids' exploration of Latin culture and fluency in Spanish. She does a good job of positively but firmly encouraging the time to be Spanish speaking. I think the kids have a lot of fun and grow as Spanish speakers.
We had a rough experience with summer camp because my kid was so stressed out and disregulated from Covid closures and disruptions that it ended up being a really tough time for him. Juliana worked so hard to make it work though (she had been one of his preschool teachers and cares for him very much). She worked well with him and us to try to support his behavior and regulation. But their indoor space is pretty small so he didnt really have the room he needed and when they went to the park he couldn't stay with the group. All this is to say, I still recommend Creative Spanish but it wasn't for my kid at that time despite them trying so hard. I felt very supported as a parent through all that as we tried to figure things out for which I'm very grateful.
Creative Spanish is an after school Spanish immersion program. They're up near Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland. We haven't done the after school portion but last summer my son did their summer camp and had a good time. Lots of fun activities and language development through social interactions and projects. https://www.creativespanish.net/
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