ARTICLE ON DIARIO DE MORELOS by DOROTHY PRATS          Jan. 30, 2004

 

 

CHRISTMAS 2003

The year 2003 ended with a great success when all children participated in our traditional Christmas festivities.  There was the usual “pastorela” and a living “nacimiento” with our best sixth grade students.  This was presented in Spanish and the story of certain traditions were exposed such as the “pesebre”, “piñata” and “Christmas tree”.

 

Kinder also participated with different songs:  Jingle Bells, Frosty the Snowman and The First Noel.  The set and all the costumes were very good and made you feel you were somewhere in the North where winter and snow are present.  First and second graders sang “Friendly Beasts”, all primary “Oh Christmas Tree” and performed the play “The Night Before Christmas”.  All these numbers were presented in English and “Campanas de Belen” in Spanish.  Some children wished merry Christmas in different languages such as Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, German, Indian, French and English.  At the very end, everybody sang “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, “Silent Night” and “Feliz Navidad”, always combining both the English language and the Spanish language as a truly bilingual school.

 

Afterwards, all children, parents, guests and teachers had a wonderful time at our Christmas Kermesse where delicious Mexican food such as buñuelos, café de olla, ponche and other foods were offered to earn funds to buy materials for the school.

 

 

NEW YEAR 2004

This New Year 2004, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL shared roscas and chocolate milk with its students and teachers.  Children also broke the traditional “piñatas” which were made by every group in December.  All piñatas were filled with fruit and candies so it was a lot of fun on this first day of class, January 7.

 

Next on January 19, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL celebrated the “Blessing of the Animals”.  This is the day dedicated to San Antonio Abad who protected all animals.  INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL believes children should have love for animals, to be tender, gentle and caring.  We promote all children to have pets, any type of pet that they can afford to share in their lives at home.  So children came January 19 with their pets such as:  dogs, a Siamese cat, turtles, fish, hamsters, a rabbit, a green iguana and Australian birds.  A Catholic priest from the Cuernavaca Cathedral gave them the blessing.

 

On January 22, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL had the honor that its academic advisor, Miss Yvonne, was invited to give a talk on bilingual education to personnel of IOWA State University.  The talk was a great success. 

 

In January INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL did its altruistic project and children gave CASA TATIC new toys and clothes for their children.  Sharing is a very important value which we try to teach to all our students and as well to be compassionate.  Also a talk was given to our sixth graders regarding values to reinforce them with respect to honesty, self-esteem and  respect.

     

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