143. Sing Bi-lingual
Santa Fe, New Mexico is a proud bi-lingual city with over 400 years’ Hispano-Mestizo heritage and a more contemporary Latin-American cultural influx. Santa Fe Public Schools attempts to accommodate native Spanish speakers through a variety of programs such as Dual Immersion, Bilingual and English Immersion classrooms.
Talking Hands Talking Feet, the teaching artistry of Songs To Educate, champions bilingual learning through many of their original songs as a means of enhancing neural development and encouraging multi-cultural diversity. It is especially true of their “Human Body School” performing arts program, where human anatomy vocabulary is enhanced by both the English and Latin origins of words. The “Human Body School” 12 week program, currently underway at Nava Elementary School in Santa Fe, will culminate with a community performance in mid May.
It has been proven that bilingual and multi lingual learning environments encourage neurological development.