New York City’s Premier Foreign Language Program for Infants, Toddlers and Young Children.

Academic Year 2021-2022

September 13, 2021 -June 18, 2022

Join us in-person or online!

Contact us at info@carousellanguages.com

or call us at (212) 501-8524

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Our Mission

Studies in brain development indicate that early exposure to more than one language builds a more powerful brain by boosting synaptic connections.

Over 20 years of proven classroom success has strengthened our mission:

To provide our youngest generation with the intellectual stimulation and educational advantage gained through early exposure to more than one language.

Carousel Teaching System®

Our proprietary curriculum has been developed in collaboration
with linguists and early childhood educators.

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Join your BFFs at CoL! . “Here together, friend

Join your BFFs at CoL!
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“Here together,
friends forever.
Some things were just meant to be,
and that’s you and me.”
—Winnie the Pooh
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One of our greatest joys at Carousel is seeing bonds develop among our young students, and all the benefits these young friendships provide.
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Friends—
· Give us a sense of belonging and purpose
· Increase our confidence and self-worth
· Help us feel happier and less stressed
· Help us cope in hard times
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The importance of friendship in early childhood is often overlooked. Friendships we form in the early years help us develop important social-emotional skills, and give us a sense of security and connectedness; they increase happiness and decrease feelings of stress. Psychologists have found that friendships help children adjust to changes and transitions. Both boys and girls need friendships and are capable of forming deep bonds.
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Early friendships help children learn to share, take turns, resolve conflicts, solve problems, and cooperate. Friendship helps children understand how conversation works, how to express themselves and to listen. It helps them develop empathy—the ability to see things from another person’s point of view and understand their feelings.
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¡Hola, Little Global Citizens! . Did you know? Wi

¡Hola, Little Global Citizens!
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Did you know? With about 400 million native speakers, Spanish ranks 2nd—after Chinese, and just ahead of English—among the most widely spoken languages in the world!
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There are so many wonderful reasons to introduce your young child to Spanish. Visit our website to learn more about Spanish...and all ⭐️12 languages⭐️ we teach at Carousel of Languages! Link in bio
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Our young students love to search for and count the beautiful silk 🦋 mariposas🦋 that land in unexpected places around our beautiful Carousel home on Madison Ave.
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Come explore with us...in-person or online!!
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This week at Carousel... 🥕 🥔 🌽 🥦 🍅

This week at Carousel...
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Last week we learned about beautiful Fall and the wonders of harvest season. This week's theme builds on the last, as we study VEGETABLES!
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Carousel kids explore the beautiful colors of vegetables, the fascinating shapes and textures, yummy to eat and so good for your growing body! We learn about where vegetables come from and how they grow (soon we'll dive deeper with our Farm theme). We practice vocabulary, sentence-building, and early math with "How many...?" and "I want..." phrases in the target language.
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Come explore with us...In-person or online!
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Shall we dance? Infants, toddlers, and preschoole

Shall we dance?

Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are natural physical learners!
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During this exciting period of rapid growth, a child’s learning is based on their senses—the way the body interacts with the world.
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Movement stimulates the developing brain. For example, motions that cross the midlines of the body (front and back, left and right, up and down) are crucial to developing coordination in both left and right brain, and communication between the hemispheres.
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During the Sensorimotor stage (approx 0-2) it is so important—for cognitive development, language acquisition, and bonding—to provide a stimulating environment, play with your child, cuddle, talk, read, sing, and dance!
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Happy Halloween! From all your friends at Carousel

Happy Halloween! From all your friends at Carousel of Languages 🎃. ❤️ 🎠
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Hello, Little Pumpkin! 🎃 At Carousel, in the Fa

Hello, Little Pumpkin!
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At Carousel, in the Fall, we explore two of our favorite early childhood themes—Fruit & Vegetables!
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Harvest time is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate food and family, the bounty of nature, all the earth’s beautiful food.
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In our holistic, multisensory, theme-based foreign language curriculum, with custom teaching materials and exquisite props, children explore the rich colors and fascinating textures of fruits and vegetables, practice new vocabulary, read stories about food, learn how and where things grow, study the seasons, talk about what’s delicious to eat and good for the body; they “cook” in our play kitchen, set the table, share play meals, and explore what people eat in cultures around the world...
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Dramatic play, beginning math, culture, early literacy skills, good health, science, social-emotional learning—all from Fruit & Vegetables!
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One of the prettiest fall foods is the Pumpkin!
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Did you know? Pumpkins look like a vegetable (and we often cook them like a vegetable) but if you ask a botanist they’ll say pumpkin is a fruit!
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Here are some other fun PUMPKIN facts to share with your kids:
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🎃 Pumpkins are grown all over the world—except in Antarctica.

🎃 Pumpkins can be small enough to fit in your palm or enormous in size (some record-breakers top 1000kg!), and every size in between.

🎃 Pumpkins are famous for their bright orange color, but they can also be green, yellow, white, or even red.

🎃 There are many ways to cook and eat pumpkin—roast, bake, boil, steam, or make them into a delicious pie! You can even cook their leaves, or toast their seeds into a yummy crunchy snack.

🎃 Pumpkin is a term of endearment in several languages.

Happy Halloween, Carousel Families!
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Let's Play with Puppets! . Puppet play has so many

Let's Play with Puppets!
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Puppet play has so many benefits for young children! Puppets are wonderful tools for language development as well as social-emotional growth and motor skills; they also stimulate imagination and creativity.

At Carousel, for in-person and LIVE online lessons, we use puppets in many ways! From theme-based activities to songs and fingerplays and crafts. Best of all, they can speak every one of our 12 languages!
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We especially love our beautiful, plush
@folkmanispuppets
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Terrific Twos! . The Twos are an intense and mirac

Terrific Twos!
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The Twos are an intense and miraculous period of physical, cognitive, social-emotional, language, and sensory-motor development that takes your child from babe-in-arms to preschooler in a flash. They’re growing fast, experiencing a whirlwind of brain development, and beginning to take steps toward much greater independence.
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At Carousel, we specialize in toddlers!
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Visit the Carousel Blog to read about those Terrific Twos... and all your child’s exciting developmental stages. Link in bio!
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Ciao, little bookworm! . READ to your child every

Ciao, little bookworm!
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READ to your child every day…right from the start!
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6 tips for reading with your infant or toddler:
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🦋 Read aloud anything you’re reading—this will tune your infant’s ear to know your voice and to become familiar with the sounds of the language you speak at home.
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🦋 Next, introduce simple books—soft cloth or board books, with colorful pictures and a few simple words.
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🦋. Look for content that reflects a child’s daily life—books about food, animals, nature, cars and trucks, toys, parts of the body, clothing.
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🦋 Choose reading material with lots of repetition, rhythm, and rhyme.
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🦋 Toddlers love interactive books that invite the child to “touch and feel” or search for something in the picture.
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🦋 Talk with your preschooler about what you’re reading together. Make it exciting! “What do you think will happen if the hungry caterpillar eats that cupcake?”
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🎠 Come read with us at Carousel...in 12 languages!
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📷 Carousel Founder, Patrizia Saraceni Corman reading with one of our young citizens of the world!
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