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What Spanish class actually looks like

Flags coloured one country at a time, llamas wrapped in yarn, posters carried down a hallway by the children who made them. This is the work, week after week.

MusicIn the classroomCraftsStudent workHispanic Heritage Month

Percussion instruments, recorders and panpipes laid out across a Bolivian flag on a table — MusicThe instrument table, laid out on the flag of Bolivia

Close view of tambourines, cymbals, maracas, triangles and bells arranged on a red, yellow and green flag — MusicTambourines, cymbals, maracas and bells, waiting their turn

A student's hands writing the Spanish names of instruments on a worksheet with a marker — In the classroomGuitarra, piano, batería: writing the words while saying them out loud

Paper guitars decorated with markers and glitter foam, spread across a classroom table — CraftsPaper guitars, no two alike

A child's hands colouring a worksheet of musical instruments, markers scattered on the table — In the classroomColouring the instruments before naming them in Spanish

Two students working side by side on musical instrument worksheets with markers and a snack on the table — In the classroomTwo students, one worksheet each, markers in hand

A finished worksheet with drawings of a guitar, piano, drums, violin, trumpet, flute, saxophone and microphone labelled in Spanish — Student workEight instruments, eight new words

Two completed instrument worksheets side by side, each coloured in a different style — Student workSame worksheet, two very different hands

A worksheet of musical instruments coloured in black and gold with the Spanish words written underneath — Student workLa guitarra, el piano, la batería, written out and checked

Three students holding up a large poster covered in hand-drawn flags of Spanish-speaking countries — Hispanic Heritage MonthThe finished poster, carried out by the students who made it

Close view of a classroom poster titled Banderas Hispanohablantes, covered with hand-coloured flags — Hispanic Heritage MonthThirty flags, one per student, on a single poster

A child's hands colouring in a worksheet of South American flags with markers — In the classroomColouring Chile, Mexico, Peru and Argentina, one flag at a time

Cardboard llamas decorated with coloured yarn laid out on a classroom table — CraftsCardboard llamas, wrapped in yarn the colours of the Andes

A laptop screen showing a grid of flags of Spanish-speaking countries with their names — In the classroomLearning to name every Spanish-speaking country

A student reaching across a table with a marker to finish colouring a flags worksheet — In the classroomFinishing the last flag before the bell

Students holding a poster of Spanish-speaking flags in a school hallway — Hispanic Heritage MonthTwenty countries, presented by the class that studied them

Close view of cardboard llamas with woven yarn blankets in red, yellow and green — CraftsWeaving by hand teaches patience in any language

A completed worksheet with the flags of Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Cuba and the Dominican Republic — Student workSix countries, finished and checked

A worksheet with the flags of Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, coloured in marker — Student workCentral America, in marker

Why you will not see any child's face

We photograph the work, not the children. No student's face and no student's name appears anywhere on this site, and that is a rule we do not make exceptions to, not even for a photo we love.

Enrolled families are the exception, and only for their own child: inside the private parent portal you see photos of what your child did that afternoon, visible to you and to nobody else.

Want your child making things like this?

Our afterschool program runs Monday to Friday, right on campus at Horace Mann.

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