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Nicole Agossou, left, Tysen Tiner and Thomas Bolduc draw using their mouths rather than hands as Brenda Weeks’ service dog, Buffy, rests at Park Avenue Elementary School in Auburn on Wednesday. Weeks (not pictured) of Auburn has multiple sclerosis and brought Buffy in to meet students during the second annual Multicultural Day. Weeks had children write their names with their opposite hands, pick up pennies while wearing gloves and draw using their mouths to give them a sense of what it is like to live with a disability. Special guests and teachers held various activities throughout the day to involve children in such subjects as Maine’s Penobscot Nation, African drumming, German sock puppets, Guatemalan dolls, Chinese crafts and visual impairment. Agossou, Tiner and Bolduc are first-graders.
Zakariah Hussan, left, and Hassan Jibril play the dunun and kenkeni drums during an African drumming workshop at Park Avenue Elementary School in Auburn on Wednesday. Mike Davis, seated at left, shared his drumming experience during the second annual Multicultural Day. Special guests and teachers held various activities throughout the day to involve children in such subjects as Maine’s Penobscot Nation, German sock puppets, Guatemalan dolls, Chinese crafts, disability awareness, African drumming and visual impairment. Hussan, 10, and Jibril, 11, are fifth-graders. Davis spent a month in Senegal, studying the art of African drumming.
Christian Leet, left, and Principal Vickie Gaylord participate in an African drumming workshop taught by Mike Davis during the second annual Multicultural Day at Park Avenue Elementary on Wednesday. Leet is a fifth-grade student.
Barry Dana of the Penobscot Nation shares information about his Native American culture with third-graders during the second annual Multicultural Day at Park Avenue Elementary School in Auburn on Wednesday.
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