Saturday Academy October 30, 2010!

Today's Saturday Academy was a great learning experience for the students and myself because the Columbia City Fire Department came and spoke to us. They gave the kids fire safety tips and let them explore the truck also. The students were very engaged and seemed very interested also. The fire fighters were very friendly with the kids and made it very clear how important fire safety is. Many of the kids left that day saying that they wanted to be fire fighters, so the impact that they how on the students was profound.

In addition to the firefighter presentation the students were taught a Spanish lesson by a volunteer from USC. The students seemed shy at first but they gradually warmed up to the the teacher. They were taught how to spell their names in Spanish and were also taught also praise and sentences to say. I think that the Spanish lesson was a great idea was it shows the kids a different aspect of a different culture. It also sheds light into foreign language as a subject in school because all of  them will have learn a foreign language during grade school.