Full Immersion at Sherrills Ford ElementaryAt Sherrills Ford Elementary, kindergarten students will receive approximately 90% of instruction in Spanish and 10% in English to facilitate early Spanish language acquisition and literacy development. As students transition to higher grades, more of the instruction shifts to English as the photo to the right depicts.
(Percentages are approximate) While it may seem counterintuitive, research has demonstrated that immersion students score higher than their English-only counterparts on End of Grade (EOG) even without formal English instruction. |
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Take a peek into our Spanish Immersion Program and watch these videos!
Kindergarten Small Group Phonics Exercises
Señora Cappai's Spanish Immersion Kindergarten students practice their Spanish at Sherrills Ford Elementary. This is a 360 degree video so you can use your cursor or move your mobile phone around to view the entire classroom and all the students participating in the lesson!
In this video, you will see our outstanding kindergarten immersion teacher, Señora Cappai, play an engaging game with her students where she asks her students to read the syllables that she shows on the flashcards and then they reply with words that include the syllables they read. For example, the students read the syllable "gu" and say: "igual", "iguana" and although the correct way to separate the word in syllables is: i-gual or i-gua-na, the students complied with the instructions to say words that include "gu" in them.
This is just one of many different games or strategies that our teachers use to teach our students the curriculum!
In this video, you will see our outstanding kindergarten immersion teacher, Señora Cappai, play an engaging game with her students where she asks her students to read the syllables that she shows on the flashcards and then they reply with words that include the syllables they read. For example, the students read the syllable "gu" and say: "igual", "iguana" and although the correct way to separate the word in syllables is: i-gual or i-gua-na, the students complied with the instructions to say words that include "gu" in them.
This is just one of many different games or strategies that our teachers use to teach our students the curriculum!
Kindergarten Vocabulary CenterMeet our Kindergarten Spanish Immersion Teacher Assistant, Señora Probst. She is working with her students on their Spanish Vocabulary!
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"Hot Potato" Vocabulary GameTeacher assistant, Señora Propst plays Hot Potato–in Spanish–to practice vocabulary with our immersion students.
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First-Grade Group Math Lesson |
First-Grade Sings Venezuelan Holiday Songs |
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Here is our fantastic first-grade Spanish Immersion teacher, Señora Ramos working with her students on a math lesson. The students are learning the same first-grade curriculum as their English counterparts... just in Spanish! This is also 360 degree video so feel free to use your cursor or move your mobile phone around to view the entire classroom and all the students participating in the lesson!
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Our First Grade Spanish Immersion students at Sherrills Ford Elementary learned and sang traditional Venezuelan songs for their parents in December. Everyone loved it!
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In the News!
Sherrills Ford's DLI program was recently featured in this Spectrum Charlotte story.
The Sherrills Ford Pioneer spent some time with our kindergarten and first-grade students and gave its reader a great glimpse into our program. Please be sure to read this fantastic article!
Sherrills Ford Elementary
Sherrills Ford Elementary is located in beautiful Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, in the southeast corner of Catawba County. With easy access to Lake Norman and Charlotte, it is one of the fastest growing communities in the Charlotte region.
Convenient to both Highway 150 and Highway 16, Sherrills Ford Elementary is easy to get to. Please feel free to use the map to the right to determine the distance from your house. |
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