SHS STUDENTS SHARE LOVE OF LANGUAGE AT HMS

 SPARTA HIGH STUDENTS TEACH LANGUAGES AT HELEN MORGAN

By: Noelle Hanek

Throughout the school year, members of the French and German Honors society teach elementary students at Helen Morgan School. Each Monday after school, members volunteer to drive to Helen Morgan and teach the young children fun and engaging lessons in their language to help prepare them for middle school language classes. So far, the 5th graders were taught introductions, numbers, colors, body parts, and animals. The french sessions involved multiple fun activities for the children to learn. For instance, the class threw around a foam number dice block, and with every number it landed on, they had to say the number out loud in french. To help teach them colors, the class played eye-spy, and to learn animals, they played charades. 

These sessions will continue on until at least the end of January. Additionally, the two honor societies plan on instructing even younger kids further down the road. In fact, the next four sessions are going to be for the fourth graders! These sessions are both a great experience for the kids to get introduced to new languages, a wonderful life skill to have, and a great experience for the high schoolers to gain teaching experience. Any high school student who is considering joining the French or German honor society should definitely do so since fun activities such as this will be available!

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