NYTimes.com | Preparing Hispanic Parents and Children for School
By Valerie Cotsalas
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Chunky yellow Play-Doh hamburgers, jars of primary-color paint and cardboard letter tiles filled up part of a room at the Long Island Children’s Museum here. Nearby on a carpet, a group of children stared up at a teacher who turned a book around to show them the pictures.
It wasn’t exactly a scene in a kindergarten classroom, but it was close.
The museum room is designed to resemble a kindergarten, complete with a teacher and structured activities, as a way to introduce children from immigrant Hispanic families to an American classroom before they walk into one today for their first day of school. [...]
NYTimes.com September 7, 2006
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Chunky yellow Play-Doh hamburgers, jars of primary-color paint and cardboard letter tiles filled up part of a room at the Long Island Children’s Museum here. Nearby on a carpet, a group of children stared up at a teacher who turned a book around to show them the pictures.
It wasn’t exactly a scene in a kindergarten classroom, but it was close.
The museum room is designed to resemble a kindergarten, complete with a teacher and structured activities, as a way to introduce children from immigrant Hispanic families to an American classroom before they walk into one today for their first day of school. [...]
NYTimes.com September 7, 2006
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