Chinese Instruction — Grade 1-4

Latin Instruction – Grades 5-6

Chinese is fast becoming the language to learn in the 21st century with the world's largest population and rapidly growing economics.  This will make learning Chinese vitally important for people in many industries, or for those of us who wish to visit China or learn Chinese culture and history.  We are very excited to have Chinese Instruction here at Providence Elementary School.  Chinese is currently being taught to our first through fourth graders.  As these students rise and become higher graders, they will continue to receive Chinese Instruction until sixth grade

The goals of the Chinese Foreign Language Program are:

· To support academic content area instruction

· To develop and increase cognitive skills

· To enhance reading development in both English and Chinese

· To promote global awareness and cross-cultural understanding

· To develop increased functional proficiency in all aspects of the language with each year of study.

· To meet district, state and national foreign language standards.

 

For more information please contact eithher of our Chinese Instructors or visit their blackboard site (http://fcps.blackboard.com).

 

Grace Yuan

Grace.Yuan@fcps.edu
Ping Su
PCSu@fcps.edu

 
Foreign Language at Providence ES

Grades five and six at Providence Elementary have the opportunity to begin learning Latin, the language that almost everyone spoke centuries ago and that is hardly ever spoken today. Although it isn’t spoken today, it greatly influences how we speak today: more than half of our vocabulary is Latin-based. So many aspects of our culture are Latin-based. Our literature, sciences, medicine, politics, architecture and even road building take as their model, the early Roman Empire and its ways.


At Providence, we are learning about the great connections between Ancient Rome and modern times. Latin influences are found in all of our core subjects and they help us to understand more thoroughly what we are studying. Providence and Daniel’s Run are the first elementary schools in the Capitol district where Latin is part of the mandatory curriculum

 

The goals of the Latin Foreign Language Program are:

 

· To support grades three through six in their essential content areas

· To develop and increase cognitive skills through Latin vocabulary

· To increase reading comprehension through deeper word understanding

· To promote global awareness and cross-cultural understanding

· To develop increased functional proficiency with each year of study

· To meet and surpass district, state and national foreign language standards

 

For more information please contact Dick Kunz.

 

Dick Kunz

Latin Instructor

703-460-4024

Richard.Kunz@fcps.edu