May 18, 2018 -- Spanish language and culture students from Canterbury’s kindergarten classes and Heights High have been sharing their knowledge and skills with each other this school year. In February they exchanged valentines and other notes, written in Spanish. In April, the classes met for reading, singing and dancing.

Olivia Fatica, Spanish teacher at Heights High and Canterbury Spanish teacher Jessica Artman coordinated the activities.

In April, the kindergarten students visited Heights High to sing the Adiós and Hola song for the high school students.

 

“All of the high school students just melted when the kindergartners sang for us,” said Ms. Fatica.

 

The high school students made small group and large group presentations to the young Spanish students: dialogues focused on the importance and use of Spanish in various jobs, read short stories and sang and danced to "Billy la Bufanda" by James Wooldridge and presented the rhyme "The House that Jack Built" aka "La Casa que Jack Construyó."  

Several Heights High students also led school tours for the future freshman.

“It was so fulfilling as a teacher to watch the students interact and enjoy one another after corresponding for several months,” said Ms. Fatica.

 

 

 

“When students perform for others, it makes the content more relevant. This activity also helped build relationships between students of different ages. The level of enthusiasm was contagious...so contagious that we are currently planning our experience for next year!”