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kaleidoscope
2002
Children visit
The Beach
By Adrienne Figueroa
Daily Forth-Niner
Children's Day,
an event affiliated with the upcoming Kaleidoscope festival,
included performances and tours of the Cal State Long Beach
campus in an effort to get elementary students acquainted
with college life.
Several elementary schools in the Long Beach area visited
the campus during Friday's event. Lisa Toth, a third grade
teacher at Burbank Elementary, brought about 160 students
and parents to watch a magic show at the University Theater
and tour the On-line Forty-Niner newsroom, where they learned
to construct a newspaper.
Roth's Bailadores-Aguilas, a folklorico dance group consisting
of several of her students ages 4 to 9 years old, performed
for the day's visitors.
Burbank Elementary will attend the Kaleidoscope event scheduled
for Saturday, and has been a participant in Children's Day
for about 14 years.
Roth, a teacher of 18 years and a CSULB graduate, said that
exposure to a college campus would hopefully encourage the
children to enroll in the future.
"This helps them to see a world beyond elementary school,"
Roth said.
The teacher has maintained contact with a few of her students
who once participated in Children's Day as children and are
now CSULB students. Her current pupils enjoyed the visit on
campus.
"They couldn't stop talking about it," she said.
Barbara Stearns, a third grade teacher at Prisk Elementary,
brought her class for the fourth in a row. Traveling on foot
from their nearby schoolyard, her students learned about the
newspaper-making process as well as the history of Chinese,
Japanese and Taiwanese culture and language.
A highlight of the day for Stearns' class was instruction
on how to make their own paper. The group place shredded paper
into blenders with a liquid substance and poured the concoction
through screens.
"[There's] always something different. Kids always get
a unique experience," said Stearns of the Children's
Day event.
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Alisha
Gomez/On-line Forty-Niner
The Burbank Bailadores and Aguilas of Burbank
Elementary School dance during Children's Day on April 19.
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