A Great Place to Start

Thank you for your interest in Open Minds Language Immersion Preschool.  We are Spanish immersion preschool located in San Diego. Our goal is to create a language immersion preschool experience that is safe, fun, enriching, and enhances your child’s education.

Program Hours

The SKDA site is loosely aligned with the Catholic school calendar. The preschool day runs from 8:45-2:45 with before and after preschool care every day. The Beth Jacobs site is loosely aligned with the SDUSD Traditional schedule. The preschool day runs from 9:15-3:15 with before and after care every day.

Program Options

We offer the four program options to fit your needs of 5 days per week down to 2 days per week. We also offer preschool camps during most of the school breaks.

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A Day at School

Throughout the day, we help our students to:

Play creatively

Build early academic skills

Form friendships and practice their social skills

Build Spanish and French language skills

Enjoy the learning process in a playful way

Increase their social-emotional skills

Exercise their gross motor skills with active play

Strengthen fine motor skills with detailed projects

Create art in some way every day

Experiment with science

Learn letters, numbers and pre-reading skills

Build the love of reading with engaging story time

Dance and play with classmates and teachers

Act with care for others

OpenMinds Spanish Immersion Preschool: SKDA

Ms. Karen graduated from with a degree in education from her studies in Mexico.   She is a lead teacher at the SKDS site and has a focus on supporting the younger students with language and math projects.  She also helps with office duties and site needs when not working directly with the students.

Maestra Karen

Ms. Argiris is the teacher’s aid at the SKDA site.  Her focus is on building early classroom skills for the children helping to creating a loving classroom experience.  Argiris is just starting to build her skills and is a great addition to the teeam

MaestrA Argiris

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Ms. Jessica is the Director of the SKDA program.  She develops great art and science units for the students.  She is also focused on supporting the older students with language and math projects.  Jessica is a very creative teacher and her preschool training and her first 10 years of teaching was completed in Mexico.

Maestra Jessica

OpenMinds Spanish Immersion Preschool: Beth Jacobs

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Ms. Judith has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from SDSU and a MA in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School.  She is the Director of Operations at OpenMinds and helps as a lead teacher as needed at both the SKDA and Beth Jacobs sites.  She is a playful teacher and build great relationships with both students and parents.

Maestra Judith

Ms. Lina is the lead teacher for the 2/3 classroom at the Beth Jacobs preschool site.  Her focus is on building early classroom skills and creating a loving classroom experience.  Lina has done her early childhood development training in San Diego.

MaestrA Lina

Ms. Heidy is an assistant for the 2/3 classroom.  She is fluent in Spanish and a very creative teacher.  Her preschool training and experience was completed in both Mexico and the USA.

Maestra Heidy

Ms. Yahayra is the lead teacher for the 3-5 year old class at the Beth Jacobs preschool location.  She is working to help your children have a great preschool experience and be ready for the TK or Kindergarten classroom.  She has a degree in psychology from a University in Coast Rica and is fluent in Spanish.

Maestra Yahayra

Ms. Maria has been working with OpenMinds for almost one year.  She is the assistant teacher for the 3-5 classroom and  helps to plan and prep art projects, lead circle time, teaches writing and math, and joyfully assists with all of the student’s day to day needs.

Maestra Maria

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Ms. Christine is founder of OpenMinds and works closely with all of the staff to be sure each of the programs are well supported, and works to meet  student, teacher, and parent needs both big and small.  She has a degree in business administration, a MA in organization development and is currently working on a PhD in Positive Developmental Psychology.

Ms. Christine

Social-Emotional Support for Parents

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some of our Favorite projects

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OpenMinds Beth Jacobs site 2024/2025 Calendar

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