Welcome to the Spanish program blog at Saint Joseph School!

Welcome to the Spanish program blog at Saint Joseph School!  Please continue to check this blog for updates on the program and resources to help support your student's Spanish language learning.

This year, Saint Joseph School has launched a brand-new Spanish program!  Saint Joseph’s Spanish program is intended to be dynamic and highly communicative, incorporating skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening.  Foreign language study at the K-8 level plays a key role in preparing students for language study in high school and college, and for eventual exploration and employment in the increasingly globalized world of the 21^st century.  Spanish instruction will be based on the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21^st Century, a set of national foreign language standards that Washington State has voluntarily adopted. 

Through Saint Joseph’s Spanish program, students will understand that knowledge of multiple languages will aid in communication with a wide array of people around the world, and that Spanish is linked to a wide array of rich and diverse cultures around the world.  Students will build and develop a foundation of communication skills in Spanish over time, starting with basic vocabulary, functional language, and consideration of the deep relationship between cultural competence and language.

Kristin Quackenbush

kristinq@stjoevan.org or (360) 696-2586 X1240