Treehouse Languages

The Journey Begins Today!

Why learning another language at a young age is important:

Research has shown that math and verbal SAT scores climb higher with each additional year of foreign language study.
Studying a foreign language can improve your child's analytic and interpretive capacities.
A child's brain processes multiple languages in parallel paths, building a second language system alongside the first.
Children exhibit better problem solving skills, enhanced spatial relations, and heightened creativity.
Encourages flexible thinking and communication skills, helping children consider issues from more than one perspective.
According to the Wall Street Journal:

"learning a second language later in life is fundamentally different from learning it early in life... Toddlers who learn a second language along with their native tongue store this capability in a single sector in the brain... but if the second language is acquired later -- say, in a French class in high school -- the brain designates a separate area for processing it... those who learn two languages at a young age retain an [unique] ability to speak both as if each was their native tongue."

Our mission

To help teachers and home school parents teach children foreign languages through materials, games, songs and activities that are focused on developing listening and speaking skills, because children naturally absorb and integrate language visually, orally and aurally at a young age.

We want the children to have fun and to view Foreign Languages as something they “want” to learn not something they “have” to learn.

Our materials, games and activities are teacher created, based on research and tested on children. And believe us, if the children don’t like them, they’ll tell us!

We found that the Montessori philosophy fits perfectly with the way we wanted children to learn foreign languages; therefore we incorporated some of Maria Montessori’s teachings including the 3 period lesson and control of error, to name a few.

What you will find on Treehouse Languages

This site offers lessons, materials, games, songs, activities, printouts and training for teachers and home school parents. Everything is created to help the teacher present a colorful engaging lesson to the child making learning a foreign language fun and entertaining. The goal is to have the children asking the teacher: “Is it Spanish time yet”?