College, grade school students collaborate in Spanish instruction - Sioux City

The classrooms at Sunnyside Elementary School had pupils long before school started. All were ready to learn a foreign language on their own time.

The instruction has been a collaboration between students in the Spanish classes at Western Iowa Tech Community College and the Morningside grade school for at least eight years, explained Sunnyside principal Karen Hess.

“It started before I came on board, but I thought it was a great idea,” said Hess, who has been the Sunnyside principal for five years. “At this age the kids can pick up a language and learn it far quicker than if their introduction to it is in middle or even high school.”"*

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