The practice of a foreign language during childhood stimulates the ability to memorize and facilitates the subsequent learning of other foreign languages at school. It is important to note that being bilingual does not only mean speaking two languages, it is also a matter of making contact with another culture. Thus, bilingualism can not be dissociated from a cultural whole, a pledge of open-mindedness and tolerance. La Orquidea daycare center aims to meet the needs of parents of monolingual and plurilingual families. One of the concerns of bilingual families may be the marginalization of the child due to the use of a language different from that used in its social and educational environment. Our kindergarten also corresponds to the monolingual families who want their children to pursue what, by choice and conviction, could be started in bilingual knursery school. The objective of the institution is the revalorization of the Spanish language through the use of a daily time for its learning. Spanish becomes necessary for the communication of the child with the accompanying persons and the other children. This allows him to gradually improve his language skills. Little by little, his/her mother tongue or the one he or she learns will require less effort to espress, which will all the more increase his/her willingness to identify with it and thus to speak it. The child will flourish on a daily basis in this bilingual environment.
The daycare center pays particular attention to the acquisition of autonomy in children. This involves learning daily acts to do alone, such as dressing, storing things, going to the bathroom, eating at the table, and so on. Autonomy is also the acquisition of sufficient knowledge by the child of his/her environment (place, rules of life, comrades, accompanying persons), which will lead him/her to be able to choose alone, knowingly, the activity he or she wants to do, as well as to master it. Or the ability to know how to ask for help when he needs it. An autonomous child knows how to refuse the help he or she does not need and accept the one he or she needs. Thanks to what has been set up, we observe that children gradually manage their free time. They learn to collaborate with their comrades, to negotiate and invent games. This is how we see that the child is on the road to autonomy. "Let's not raise our children for today's world, this world will have changed by the time they grow up, so first we must help the child cultivate his or her faculties of creation and adaptation. (Maria Montessori)
