On April 30th, students from the University in the High School Program in Spanish 4 and French 4 and 5 visited A.W. Becker and Pieter B. Coeymans elementary schools to share the children’s stories they had written in Spanish and French with the students in first and second grades.

The high school students wrote and illustrated myths explaining how something came to be. They read these myths in Spanish or French, translated them into English, and then taught the elementary students how to say some of the relevant words in the story, and their names, in Spanish or French.

The event gave the older students a chance to showcase their hard work and talents, and it gave the younger students some exposure to languages other than English. The high school students are taught by Sharon Muth (Spanish) and Carolyn Filson (French).

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