September 16, 2022
16 de Septiembre is Mexican Independence Day. The majority of the students at the partner school are from a Latinx background. To honor this heritage, we continued our collaboration with the Senior Ladies who returned to the school for a curriculum experience where they learned about the origins of an additional folklórico dance, La Bruja, where a woman dances with a lit candle on top of her head. Classroom teachers were given the children’s book, Danza by Duncan Tonatiuh to further extend the curricular experience into their classrooms. Curriculum connections were made through students' written reflections based on the information they learned.
