Lets Be Ready

It's amazing how the years go by, and I can't believe we've reached workshop number ten; training our teachers with the best techniques, ideas and methodologies for better development and better education in our children. I am very happy for the progress we have made as a team in Lets be ready and we also recognize that we still have a lot to do, but we are trying ...

Let me tell you that in the last week of July we had our tenth training workshop with teachers, which was titled Professional Growth. It was very dynamic and instructive, we all shared our ideas and learned a lot from each other.

The central theme of this workshop was "Learning Centers", as many of us need to learn more about the interaction, learning, results and importance of using them in our classroom. For this part we make groups to make an exhibition on each of the centers, using as a base the information and ideas that the Creative Curriculum gives us. All teachers made a very good presentation about the centers and at the same time we remember and learned a lot about what we should do with our children when using them. “Personally, this issue had a great impact on me, because one is not perfect to do everything at face value, but striving and trying to follow those instructions not only in me but in my children has a better effect on what we do and want to achieve ”

We also remember important points such as: having a well-organized calendar so that our children learn to be so and always plan their activities in the day, month and even in the year, of course in the future; We saw the importance of recycling with any type of material for any activity we do. Professor Edwin López showed us a model class of what we can teach with respect to Music, such as musical notes and instruments in their different classifications. On the topic of Early Stimulation we focus on the importance of crawling and crawling, as many of our children in different communities, it is impressive but they do not go through this stage; so it was very interesting to know that if they didn't do it when they were babies, we can still do it as teachers to do it for a better development; This presentation was in charge of Lidia Bacajol and Lucrecia Yos experts in the subject and very good teachers.

It was a week of new ideas, techniques, methods and important changes that we are already making. All this work and effort would not have been possible without the participation of all our teachers, our dear Principal Sara Tun, but above all for our Adviser Mercedes Morales who, with her experience, her good advice and her love for education makes it possible for us to have a well organized workshop with the topics we need, to improve as an organization and as teachers.

This is the most important thing I had to tell you, I hope you like our ideas and what we do for our children. All this work we do for our children, would not be possible without their donations, that is why we thank them for the support they give us, they really help us a lot.

Thank you so much.

As we have already told you in our past reports, the nutrition program is sponsored by the Mathile Foundation, which provides consulting services and a fortified nutritional drink containing proteins and 21 essential vitamins and minerals; better known as CHISPUDITOS for our children.

Last month we had the pleasant visit of two members of the Mathilde Foundation (Clay and Tim), who visited the school of Los Izotes in San Juan Sacatepéquez; the objective of the visit was that the members of the foundation and the team of chispuditos knew how both education and nutrition programs work in that community, and how the mothers support the preparation of the atol, as well as the children consume it daily .

The teachers Lidia and Margarita who work in this community, the children gave them a very good reception. They showed a model class to Clay and Timothy with the theme of Animal Classification, read a story about animals and last they made an animal with recyclable material, which greatly amused the children.

When the meal was over, the mothers prepared the drink, Clay and Tim served the children their atol as well as the supplement, which was a peeled orange with a ground nugget.

In the end the teachers, the children and Fred expressed their gratitude for the donation made by this foundation with the drink Chispuditos.

It was a very encouraging visit both for Lets Be Beady and the program CHISPUDITOS as it was more closely appreciated as the children enjoy their atol and how this helps them in their education.

"As a teacher, I have experienced how this nutritious drink (Chispuditos), during these two years of testing has helped our children to be more ready and prepared to learn and have a better nutrución. I think that in the most rural communities the advances of the children have been more noticeable because the boys are more prepared to be successful and to be healthy "

An image describes more than a thousand words, so in the photos below you will appreciate more about the visit and the activities described above (sorry for the definition of some photos)...

I'm writing soon again.