BALLOONS

Scroll through this sample part to view highlights of some of the most valued features of this learning program.
Warm Up page introduces the theme with new vocabulary in context.
Presentation page focuses children’s attention on new vocabulary.
Practice page reinforces new vocabulary and introduces prepositions.
As a personal response, children refer to the picture dictionary while drawing pictures.
Children identify the shapes on the clothes: triangles, squares, and circles.
Students apply what they have learned by cutting out the clothes and placing them on the pictures of the children.
A simple game provides Assessment of children’s understanding of the key vocabulary.
Children make Tell a Story books to take home. These wordless books allow children to practice the language they have learned.
Level 1 for 3-year-olds.

Level 2 for 4-years-olds.

Level 3 for 5-year-olds.

 The world of Balloons grows with the developing child. For the theme People We Know, Balloons moves from family (Level 1 for 3-year-olds) to friends (Level 2 for 4-year-olds) to community (Level 3 for 5-year-olds), reflecting the ever-expanding world of children. Other themes follow similar progressions. And the art develops in complexity as well.


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