Classroom of the Week - Jr/Sr High | CAM Community School District

October 5–9

This week, we’re highlighting Ms. Marin, who teaches High School Spanish, Spanish Culture, and 8th Grade Exploratory Spanish at our Jr./Sr. High School!

In Spanish Culture, our students learned about the history of piñatas before making two of their own from scratch. Using water, flour, and balloons, they created papier-mâché piñatas, decorated them, and filled them with candy. Then came the much-anticipated finale—breaking them open!

The finished piñatas may have lasted only seconds, but students had plenty of fun throughout the process. Check out the photos of their work!

A student swings a stick toward a hanging pink and purple piñata while classmates watch in Spanish Culture class. Students decorate handmade piñatas with colorful tissue paper, adding purple fringe to a pink piñata. Students work on a newspaper-covered papier-mâché balloon for a homemade piñata, with supplies on a nearby table. A student swings a stick at a colorful hanging piñata in the Spanish classroom. A student raises a stick to strike a colorful handmade piñata resting on the classroom floor. A smiling student uses a stick to break open a colorful piñata on the classroom floor while three classmates watch.