Fourth-grade teacher Debbie Latessa, followed by pupil Danielle Ceplice, above, gets pupils dancing as they listen to the fourth-grade mariachi band. At right, Eric Liston, a fourth-grader at South

Fourth-grade teacher Debbie Latessa, followed by pupil Danielle Ceplice, above, gets pupils dancing as they listen to the fourth-grade mariachi band. At right, Eric Liston, a fourth-grader at South Range Middle School, sports his homemade sombrero during the school's Cinco de Mayo celebration. Each pupil made a hat for Friday's event. Cinco de Mayo, or May 5, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army in the Battle of Puebla in 1862.