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The group of students and three teachers who have spent the last ten days on an organic farm in Costa Rica are heading home. Here is the final update from the group:
We left the farm this morning and are staying at a hotel not far from the airport. We spent the weekend checking out a [...]

Over 20 Beaver students are spending their first weeks of summer vacation in Costa Rica living and working on an organic farm. In addition to working, students use this experience as an opportunity to immerse themselves in the Spanish language. Teachers Tiffany Marsh, John Schatz, and Elisha Cho are accompanying the group on this annual [...]

Students in the Latin American Art, Music, and Dance course recently were assigned a project choose a Latin American artist and represent that artist’s work in some way. One group chose to produce a video about Ecuadorian artist Ramon Piaguaje.

Students in Jen Sobel’s Spanish IV class recently completed their mural project. The activity asks groups of students to create a mural relating to current events. They must then develop a presentation in Spanish to explain their art to others. This year’s murals are posted below. (Click photos for larger images.)

Students in Jen Sobel’s elective “Spanish V: Art, Music, and Dance” don’t just learn the language, they learn the Spanish culture as well. For one project, a small group of students represented and reenacted one of Spanish painter Franciso Goya’s Capricho prints. The resulting video produced by seniors Joanna Georgakas, Emma Marshall and Rachel Maltz [...]