Russian

• Alina Poluyko
  

  A professional teacher with Master's degree in Elementary Education, and with teaching experience of 20+ years in preschools and elementary schools, Mrs. Poluyko teaches pre-reading and language development program to younger children. Her program is coordinated with and serves as an introduction for the reading program that is developed and taught by Angela Kozarevich. At the Do-Re-Mi from 2006.

• Angela Kozarevich
  

  A professional elementary school teacher, with B.A. in Elementary Education from Pedagogical Institute of Odessa, Ukraine, and 12 years of work in elementary grades, Angela is perfectly equipped to teach reading. Angela started working with us in 2003 and during these years she developed a strong reading readiness and language development program and adjusted a standard reading program to meet the needs of children with limited conversational Russian.

• Natalia Smirnova
  

  Natalia's educational background includes both Pedagogy and Russian Philological degrees from the University of Riga. Her research ranged from modern children's literature to Russian literature of 12th century. Natalia’s 20-year teaching experience ranges from nursery school to High School (Russian language, Russian and Foreign literature) to adult foreign speakers at Latvian International organizations. Teacher of the Year 2000 in Riga. For school-age children born in the US, Natalia adapted recently published in Latvia an efficient method of teaching Russian as a Foreign Language. At the Do-Re-Mi since 2003.