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CREC to Host Annual Council of Language Teachers' Rhyme Celebration
Summary:
About 200 students from throughout Connecticut will participate in the 24th annual Connecticut Council of Language Teachers’ Rhyme Celebration on March 18, 2015.
The event will be held at the Theater of the Performing Arts located at the CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. This year’s theme is “a feast of rhymes.”
At the event, students in kindergarten through grade six will recite rhymes and sing songs in world languages to promote an early love for world languages. Several languages will be featured, including Spanish, Mandarin, French, and Japanese. The rhymes, songs, poems, and tongue twisters will be selected by world language teachers and will be presented by students with costumes and props.
Student participants will represent approximately 20 towns, 11 school districts, and 32 public and private schools.
This year’s Rhyme Celebration will be hosted by Kristen Tagg, a Spanish teacher at the CREC International Magnet School for Global Citizenship in South Windsor. For the first time in the event’s history, the organization is asking participants and members of the audience to take part in a community outreach effort. Monetary and non-perishable food donations collected at the event will be given to the food pantry at the CREC John J. Allison, Jr. Polaris Center in East Hartford.
