Child-Youth Italian Language Class – Centro Caboto Centre – Sept 2024 – May 31, 2024
Children / Youth Classes:
Our Child/Youth program runs from September 14, 2024 until May 31, 2025 and the children attend classes every Saturday from 10:00 am until 12:00 pm. Children can start as early as 4 years old and finish in Grade 12. There are many different activities the children participate in such as Halloween Party, Spirit Month, Christmas Concert, Parent Teacher Conferences, I Love to Read Month, Carnevale, Concorso Carducci Poetry Contest, and an End of the Year Concert.
Early Childhood Years (Pre Asilo / Asilo):
The children in this age range (4-5) learn initial bits of the language. They mainly focus on colours, salutations, immediate family, numbers and the alphabet.
Early School Years (Livello 1-4)
The children in this age range (5-10) learn a lot more vocabulary, participate in reading Italian stories, books and working in a workbook. The teachers also emphasize the use of Italian in the classroom. The main focus is to continue learning how to pronounce words, making sentences, use pronouns and articles as well as continuing with colours, family, numbers, and introduced to school, days of the week, months of the year, seasons, human body, and much more
Middle School Years (Livello 5-8)
The children in this age range from (10-14) will learn how to read in Italian, speak in Italian and how to work with grammar. Usually, teachers at this level will speak mainly in Italian, to strengthen skills in understanding the language when spoken to them. They will also work more with various verbs, articles, conjugations, irregular verbs, reading stories and books in Italian. They will also learn about Italian Culture: regions, capitals, history and more about Italy as a country in these years.
High School Years (Livello 9-12)
The students in this age range (14-18) will focus their year on preparing for the Italian exam, held in April. Teachers will speak in Italian to strengthen the student’s understanding of the language, the students will read and do oral exercises to strengthen their speaking skills, and they use a special book dedicated to the teachings for the exam. They will be working on passato prossimo, imperfetto, futuro, condizionale, pronomi, articoli, and they will have dictations throughout the year. The students in this level gain a Manitoba High School credit, if they pass the exam.
- Register 1 Child/Youth for 2024/2025 School Year200.00Please specify if your children have previous Italian classes/exposure.
Cost is $600 and includes a snack
$200 to be paid at registration, $200 to be paid on Jan 1st and $200 to be paid on March 1st
When registering 2 siblings (must reside in the same household) receive a discount of 10% on each child:
$360/360/360 paid in installments as above. Please select the 2 siblings option when adding to cart.When registering 3 siblings (must reside in the same household) receive a discount of 15% on each child:
$510/$510/$510 paid in installments as above. Please select the 3 siblings option when adding to cart.When registering 4 siblings (must reside in the same household) receive a discount of 20% on each child:
$640/$640/$640 paid in installments as above. Please select the 4 siblings option when adding to cart.