Elementary Spanish

Teacher: Elaine McWhirter (Mrs. Coffee's niece)
               1902 San Joaquin
               Friendswood, TX 77546
               Phone: 281-993-9095
               E-mail: <ElaineJMcW@yahoo.com>

Bio: In 2002, I earned a Bachelors Degree from the University of Houston majoring in Communications/Broadcast Journalism. Shortly after graduation, I returned to college and received my Teaching Certificate. I have been teaching in the public school system for six years and have enjoyed every moment of my tenure. I've resided in the Pearland area for over 30 years, where I've met my husband and have had two beautiful children, ages 2 1/2 and 10 months. I've been blessed with the wonderful opportunity to be able to use my skills in the home school setting. I'm extremely excited to meet all the new faces in the upcoming school year and look forward to making special memories for both myself and your children.

Cost: K-3rd - $20 a month, 30-minutes a week (September through May)

4th-6th - $35 a month, 1 hour per week (September through May)

Materials: folder (teacher will provide), zipper pocket to keep supplies in, pencil, stick glue, scissors, and crayons. The supplies will be stored in your child’s zipper pouch, and will be available for use during other courses, if need be.

Course Content:

Students are introduced to sets of thematically related Spanish vocabulary words. Learning will be interactive. Students cut, color, paste, and play games. Reading and writing are introduced as early as possible. The younger grades (K thru 3rd) will do more matching and recognition while the older students will do more reading and writing. Every time we meet we will go over the previous week's vocabulary words as well as work with sentence structure. Homework time is 15 minutes a day. For homework your student will be asked to write the vocabulary words 2 times, learn the words, and do one worksheet in their workbooks. This has proven to be a very helpful tool.