What do AIM classes look like?
AIM classes are highly interactive! Participants are not sitting passively. They are speaking in the target language for the entire class. Often, they are also asked to gesture as well. We stand up and move, dance and sing in every class!
In addition to a strong focus on oral language development, students will also develop written language skills through work with story and drama. At the end of each Level, students will present a play to the family in the target language. They will also have completed a workbook of scaffolded written language activities.
Throughout each level and in between the live-in person Lessons, students will be encouraged to spend a few minutes on their AIM Portal, where they will:
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- review important gestured vocabulary;
- read the main story for their level in the ereader;
- sing some of the songs and raps that we learn in class;
- complete an assigned activity from their digital workbook.