For about a week, students in Tracey Heaton’s Spanish II classes got the chance to write a script and perform it with puppets. But under only certain circumstances- the play had to be in Spanish and it had to include vocabulary words and specific verb tenses that the students had learned throughout the year.
Freshman Josh Knight enjoyed the play because of how original the assignment was.

Heaton got the idea from her sister who also teaches students.

“My sister works at a school district where they do puppet shows,” Heaton said. “She told me about them and I thought it was a good idea.”

She first started doing puppet shows two years ago, but she already has multiple puppets and an official puppet stage.

“I ordered the stage and most of the puppets from an online company called The Puppet Store,” Heaton said.

Because of the great response from her students every year, Heaton plans on expanding her puppet collection.

“It breaks them out of the routine of quizzes and tests and makes them apply the Spanish they know,” Heaton said. “Working with the puppets is just fun and goofy.”

Overall, the puppet shows allowed students to put in hard work and watch it pay off. For most students, this project was fairly easy.

“It was easier because I thought it was going to be harder because of the verb tenses but my teacher and my friends helped me,” Knight said.

By Tori Therrien