Lower School Spanish Teacher Lisi Arrarte writes, "This month, the LS Spanish program has been focusing on making cultural connections and studying the Central American celebration of Dia de los Muertos. Grade 3 and 4 students have spent the whole month learning about the history, traditions and different regional celebrations of Dia de los Muertos, as well as learning lots of vocabulary in Spanish to support the learning.
"The study has been centered around a Spanish poem that the students translated and have been working with. Señorita Marianne shared some of her experiences in Guatemala and the tradition they have involving giant kites. If you visit the Grade 4 pod or look at the bulletin board outside the Spanish classroom, there are some examples of kites that the students created as a class.
"The Spanish classes have also been working in collaboration with Ms. Jordan and Tina in art where the students have been decorating skull masks. We have documented this procedure and they will be using the pictures to do a project in technology also!"
Our picture shows the students playing a game to test their grasp of Spanish vocabulary associated with Dia de los Mertos.
