LA HABRA
The Children’s Museum at La Habra received a $250,000 grant from the state to fund a Hands-on English Language Program for nonnative speakers in kindergarten and first grade.
“We’re still in the process of developing the program,” said Jennifer Boxer, director of the children’s museum. “But our goal is to use our resources as a museum to support these children as they learn English.”
The museum will coordinate programs with Southland schools. Some of the classroom studies will be based around familiar folk tales, such as “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Three Little Pigs.” Students will be taught the stories, then asked to interpret the tale in English and act it out in costume in the museum.
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