The Transitional Bilingual Program utilizes Spanish as the
primary language of instruction from kindergarten through grade
3. The mission of this program is to transition Spanish-speaking
students into mainstream classrooms by the third grade. In
kindergarten, 90 percent of the instruction is provided in
Spanish and the remaining 10 percent is done in English. As the
students matriculate through grades one, two and three, the
percentage of Spanish instruction is gradually reduced and
English is increased by 10 percent. Afterwards, gradually
adhering to the transition of the students to instruction in
English, the goals are to facilitate the content classes, to
develop their literary abilities, and to get students to become
fluent in their own native language. This method will facilitate
a transition from the Spanish into English language in a less
stressful way for the students.