Scuola Italiana Di Portland

Programs: Weekly classes focus on learning the italian language in a full-immersion environment, but go well beyond simple language acquisition by integrating aspects of italian culture such as songs, tradition, holiday celebrations, food, and history, including the rich history of art in italy, into each lesson plan. Students are able to make them come alive: lessons about the important holiday of carnevale for example, culminate with participation in the scuola's annual public festa di carnevale each winter. , complete with costumes, traditional foods, and games. The classroom environment is creative, dynamic and child centered. All classes maintain a low student to teacher ratio (4-8:1) to insure a high quality learning experience. In the fiscal year ended july 31, 2017 scuola italiana di portland brought italian language and culture to 343 students (241 adult students & 102 children students) enrolled in enrichment programs, and to many others, of all ages, who participated in our other events such as the festa di carnevale and the kids carnavale; consisting of kids activities: clown, games, balloon animals, italian story time, and an italian basket raffle. The festa di carnavale for adults was held on february 10,2017 and had 37 attendee's. The kids carnavale was held on february 25, 2017 and was attended by 29 children.

scoula italiana di portland offers a one week summer camp to beginning, intermediate and advanced learners ages 3-11, in italian language and cultural enrichment. Two sessions were held in the fiscal year ending in july, 2017. 11 summer campers joined us in the 2016-2017 fiscal year for summer camps "joy of cooking" & "mediterranean fit climbing camp".

scuola italiana di portland offers an intimate preschool program five days a week, in a full-immersion environment, with a native italian teacher trained in this award winning approach to early childhood learning. The reggio emilia approach fosters the children's intellectual development through multi-sensory, child-directed learning. A low student to teacher ratio is maintained, not exceeding six students to one teacher. In the fiscal year that ended july 31, 2017, 12 students were enrolled in the scoula italiana di portland full-immersion reggio emilla inspired preschool program. K-1 advanced grantadvanced level, after school classes offered in the 2016/17 school year were attended by 14 students; both k-1 and ages 8-13. The weekly, two-hour classes incorporate formal italian curriculum and use the same first grade standards, nuove indicazioni nazionali per la scu0la primaria, that are used in a native classroom. Lessons will be taught by a native teacher, lara carnovali. Lara received her degree in education (laurea in scienza della formazione primaria) from the university of milan. Before moving to the us, lara taught in an elementary school for seven years. The textbook ortografia passo passo by gaia edizioni will be used throughout the program. The curriculum will develop age appropriate reading and writing skills and further enhance the existing verbal skills in students. In addition to traditional book work, students will engage in a variety of educational games and activities that make learning a pleasure. Scuola italiana di portland will expand its library to include a selection of early readers, such as the series ii battello a vapora by piemme edizioni for the age group. At-home reading will extend lessons beyond the classroom to further develop reading skills, which are critical to have cemented by the third grade. Program success will be measured through simple tests that will be given throughout the year to track student progress. It is expected that by year end that students will be reading simple texts independently, taking oral dictation and writing basic sentences with only minor errors.