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After growing such a successful program in Brooklyn, the founder and director of The Language and Laughter Studio (LLS) has decided to continue growing here in LA by launching a preschool program! Offered for children 2 years and up, the program is adapted from France’s National Education guidelines and based on the successful programming at LLS. (www.thelanguageandlaughterstudio.com)
It is not necessary for the parents of the child to speak French — only that they recognize the many benefits of exposing their child to a foreign language and culture at a young age! The program is formulated to meet the unique needs of each child, to develop his or her self-esteem and to improve needed skills. The child will seamlessly be exposed to French while developing essential cognitive and motor skills and while having a whole lot of creative fun!
Enrollment for 2018 – 2019 school year is open — classes start September 4!
We believe that a child’s intelligence and reasoning are exercised through playful creativity: trying out new ideas, expressing emotions, taking different roles, making choices, repeating known ways of enjoyment. Play is a natural medium for children to express pleasure, curiosity, autonomy and is integrated as a primary way of learning.
Our well-trained, highly dedicated teachers work to build on each student’s unique strengths, interests and learning style while taking into account his or her needs and levels in terms of intellectual, social, emotional and physical growth.
These activities promote the use of the five senses, kinetic movement, spatial refinement, small/large motor skill coordination, and the acquisition and understanding of concrete knowledge that leads to abstract thought processing later on.
The program is divided into 5 areas:
The classroom boasts a three-year age range of pupils to encourage an interactive social and learning environment. This system allows flexibility in learning pace and permits the mutually beneficial relationship to develop whereby younger children seek to emulate older children, and older children naturally become teachers by sharing what they have learned with the younger ones. The children are offered a variety of opportunities to work both individually and cooperatively in small groups.
The daily schedule includes a balance of stimulating and relaxing developmentally appropriate activities. Through the well-known power of educational tools, our educators awaken in the children a life-long love of learning, empathy towards others and creative thinking.
All activities will be led in French with the needs met of all levels of speakers! At all times, positive guidance techniques are used to shape the interaction between the children and with the teacher in French.
“Learning a language at a young age develops neurological pathways that are not stimulated in any other way. It helps children to become abstract thinkers and problems solvers.”.
There are no French language requirements to attend our Mini-Maternelle program — only an openness and desire on the part of the parents or guardians for the children to learn a new language! Children must however be between 2 (24 months) and 5 years of age by the time they start school.
We offer a three-day (Mon/Tues/Wed) and a four-day (Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs) program, running from 9am-2pm. All kids aged two to five years old are welcome to attend.
Priority is given to applications for attendance on all mornings, however we will allow children to attend one or two days if there is space. Please contact us for more information on tuition rates at info@jardinenfants.com.
We currently have openings and would love to meet you and work with your child! To start the enrollment process, kindly email us at info@jardinenfants.com and be sure to include your child’s name, gender and age. We look forward to hearing from you!