Description
Italian-Playing 0-12 months
The course 0-12 months is designed for children in the first months of life and their parents. The meetings are designed to stimulate cognitive and communicative development in the first months of life through early exposure and consistent with the Italian language, which becomes the basis for a harmonious bilingualism.
The meetings offer a peaceful, welcoming and stimulating environment, where children and parents share moments of play, listening and discovery, all in Italian. The course favors not only the development of language and cognitive skills, but also accompanies the exploration of the sense-motor skills of the child, through involvement in multisensory experiences.
The sharing of experiences in Italian strengthens the parent-child relationship and, at the same time, the course constitutes a first social context other than that of the home, where Italian is a living and daily language. Finally, the course offers a space for comparison, inspiration and social connection to the neo-generator, who can build new ties with people who speak Italian.
Proposed activities:
- Italian songs and nursery rhymes, to be repeated at home.
- Vocal and rhythmic games to stimulate the first visual, gestural and verbal interactions.
- Animated readings of illustrated books, with visual stimuli suitable for age and short texts.
- Sensory and motor activities, which favor the association between words, gestures and objects.
- Exploration of unstructured materials (Treasure Tarmation, Faby box box, travase boxes, sensory and sound bottles, etc.)
Italian-Playing 1-2 years
The 1-2-year course is aimed at supporting the children cognitive and linguistic development in Italian starting from 13-15 months, when they learned to walk. In this age, in fact, they progressively develop the ability to pronounce sounds, then simple words and phrases.
For this reason, the activities with linguistic focus focus on the recognition of objects, the expansion of the vocabulary and the adequate use of words. Through the game and activities to be carried out in the classroom with the parent but also together with the others participating, the course also helps the children to develop its skills of social interaction and understanding of the Italian language.
This offers them numerous advantages:
- Early exposure to the sounds, rhythms and specific intonations of Italian
- Development of natural language, without stress or pressure
- Stimulation towards bilingualism
- Funny and engaging learning
- Strengthening the parent-child bond
- Parental support to support linguistic development even at home
Italian-Playing 3-4 years
The 3-4 year course is designed to offer linguistic input to children through a playful approach and the involvement in exploration and discovery activities. The lessons are structured to be stimulating and dynamic, in order to maintain the attention and interest of the young participants.
Within a welcoming and stimulating environment, children can explore, learn and practice the Italian language through play, music, stories and many creative activities. The proposed activities include traditional songs and movement games to be done together. And then readings aloud inherent to the theme of the meeting, manual activities and small dramatizations, all carried out in Italian.
This multisensory approach facilitates language learning in a natural and spontaneous way. The young participants are also stimulating to socialize and develop their understanding and ability to communicate in Italian.
This offers numerous advantages:
- Stimulation of bilingualism
- Strengthening of cultural identity with Italian culture and language
- Ease of linguistic learning thanks to the playful and natural context
- Social interaction and the development of friendships with peers who share a similar cultural background
- Creation of a network among the participating families
