Nov. 28 -- MVHS Leadership Class Visits Oak School

On November 28 students from MVHS Leadership class visited Oak School and read Filipino stories to four first grade classes and two kindergarten classes. One of the MVHS students, Emma Eline, had this to share:

My name is Emma and I'm one of the leadership students that went to Oak School to read. In my opinion, the whole thing went really well. We began practicing reading out loud and working on Tagalog word pronunciation a few weeks before we actually went to the school. In order to make sure that we were pronouncing words correctly, a few members of our group attended a lunch meeting of the Asian FYO [Filipino Youth Organization] club. Some of the members of the club were able to help us with pronunciation, and then the information was passed along to the rest of our group. The day before we went to Oak School, we talked about how we would introduce ourselves, and what else we could do to make the children more comfortable with us. Once we got to the school, we were each sent to a different classroom (4 first grade classes, 2 kindergarten classes) to read. Everyone's experience went really smoothly. The kids were interested, attentive, and involved in the reading - making comments or asking questions. The teachers seemed welcome to more students coming to read to classes in the future; and we all found it to be such a fun experience that we would gladly do it again.