LIMA, OH (WLIO) -Â High school students are preparing for a career in education by getting real experience teaching younger kids.Â
The Holiday Family Learning Night is one of many events held throughout the year where Lima Senior High School students in the early education program provide free, fun educational activities to elementary-aged students. The student-led exercises help younger children with math, literacy, and art. Each child was also able to take home a copy of the book The Polar Express.
The event is also useful for parents, giving them tools to keep the learning process going in the home.
"A lot of them enjoy seeing how easy it is to put these together, that they can take home and actually do some of them too, and it's very cost effective. We try to make it something easy to do," said Sara Julian, the Lima City Schools parent liaison.Â
For early education students, it's important to interact with as many different kinds of kids as possible.
"There's multiple different schools and multiple different ways they teach their children. The way I see it, it's just an opportunity to learn with different types of kids, the overactive kids, and the quiet ones, the shy ones," said Gracie Slone, a senior in the program.Â
The next Family Learning Night will be held in February.Â
