Whittier Elementary School's Spanish Fest offered a candy-filled pinata, soccer, singing, Mexican food, and salsa dance lessons by professional performer Loretta Turin, pictured. Click on photo to begin slide show.
A Spanish festival was held at Whittier Elementary School Thursday night to honor the new Spanish classes offered there.
Spanish class was dropped from the regular curriculum, so parents and the PTA organized an all-volunteer class that meets before regular classes start. Beth Aguilar is the teacher. She also teaches Spanish and art classes professionally at Broadview-Thomson.
"I graduated from Whittier and still live right up the street," said Aguilar.
"Tonight is the chance for our school to celebrate our volunteer-based early morning Spanish class," said event organizer Anne Skalicky, a parent of Whittier 3rd grader, Pablo Martinez.. "I'm bilingual and lived two and a half years in Guatemala. I am married to a Chilean. Learning a new language early in life is important. It gets harder as you get older."
