MSIS is a city-wide school which immerses children in the Spanish language. We offer the language immersion program for grades K4 through 5th grade. The cultural mix found in our student body and staff dovetails beautifully with our dual focus of language learning and multiculturalism. Children learn the second language in a natural way in everyday classroom conversational situations and through subject content instruction. This makes language learning more meaningful to them and helps them develop listening comprehension, spontaneous verbal expression, reading and writing skills.
Culture plays an important role in each program.
In addition to emphasis on customs and traditions of the target culture, there is also a very strong focus on multiculturalism as well. The curriculum is basically the same for pupils in this program as it is in all other Milwaukee elementary schools. Students study reading and language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, through the medium of another language. Thus, pupils learn to understand, speak, read and write a second language as well as English. The teacher speaks in the second language while making use of many visual aids and a great deal of body language.