04/03/2025
by Señora Proaño
High School students in Señora Proaño's Spanish III class, Mrs. Sterling's Family and Consumer Science (FCS) class and Mrs. McLaughlin's class collaborated for some fun cross-curricular Carnaval celebrations in March! Carnaval, known in other parts of the world as Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday, is an important holiday in Latin America and Spain that precedes Lent and includes music, parades, costumes and masks.
To kick off the celebrations, Spanish III students taught the FCS students the colors in Spanish as well as the cultural significance of Carnaval, prepared a maracubano juice made with passion fruit and bananas and facilitated mask-making. The celebration continued with FCS students preparing delicious foods to sample, including beignets, cannoli dip, buffalo chicken dip and jalapeño dip. ¡Delicioso!
Inspired by the FCS-Spanish collaboration, six Spanish III students volunteered to teach Mrs. McLaughlin's students about the cultural significance of Carnaval and the colors in Spanish followed by mask-making in addition to sampling maracubanano juice and pan de yuca (a traditional Latin American cheese bread). Special thanks to Spanish III students Addison Arms, Gabby Godfrey, Reagan Irvine, Abby Koharchik, Abby Pomaybo and Abella Valenti-Baker for volunteering!
