Lets Be Ready

Hello everyone, we are very happy to greet you and tell you about our experiences, activities and the development we have every month with our children, it is a great pleasure.

We are very satisfied and happy for the work we have done so far; the children have had very good progress and achievements with the methods learned at the beginning of the year. That is why we will share what we learned in our last training at the end of July, which some teachers are already putting into practice.

We learned different activities and exercises that we can do with our children, stimulating gross motor skills; making them always from the easy to the difficult so that the results are more effective. Betzabé Tun is one of our star teachers and who was in charge of teaching us this topic, it was fun to do them because she is very enthusiastic and active in her work.

Lucy Diaz also made a very good presentation about "THE STAR BOOKS" she made us reminders of the activities that we must do with these books, she also showed us new ideas of how to read and how to make reading more interesting; for example: to tell a story it is not always necessary to use a book, we can use images of some characters or objects to make a new story, to this activity we can add a gabacha to paste the images. In this way children awaken their imagination more.

In Guatemala we use a Curriculum called Base National Curriculum, which serves as a guide to plan our classes and know what we have to teach. So we thought it important to read and analyze some parts of this book that we often do not pay attention to or take for granted that we are doing it. We had a very interesting debate about Significant Learning, the correct classroom setting and how the affective climate should be in the classroom; which we believe will help us a lot to practice it.

Something that I think helped us a lot to get closer or in other words, to strengthen our relationship as colleagues and friends, was that we did a very emotional activity called "life experience"; where we hear how some teachers have had a very difficult life but despite the obstacles they have never said they can not. Some have gone through economic, health, and work problems; but in spite of that they do not surrender because the goal is to make the change not only in children but also in the world. This part was very beautiful because we knew our friends better, which made us all see ourselves as a family; with whom we can count at any time that we need.

These have been some of the most outstanding activities that we carried out in the Professional Growth 8 workshop.

I hope you like them and I can not wait to tell you what we are doing for the other month...

Hello everyone!
As always it is a pleasure and a privilege to inform them of what we are doing and we want to reach with our Let's be Ready guys. I also want to apologize for not having written before, but these last two months we have had many activities and trainings, with students and teachers ...

• First I want to tell you that our Director SARA TUN, organized a workshop in the San Antonio Village in Xenacoj, in the school of that community; for ladies of the basic level; with the aim of discovering themselves on who I am? What are the changes that all women have when developing, because it is necessary to have precautions and certain cares with our body; and how they can deal with all those changes. All the ladies participated and the parents were grateful for having talked about these issues, since in that very rural community in which many families still find it difficult to talk about these issues with their daughters.

• As a second point, I want to tell you that we had the pleasant visit of our dear sponsors, WILLIAM AND JANICE, they visited the Elba school in Patzicía; They were very excited for the visit they made and satisfied with the work our teacher is doing in that community. They were sharing with the children and reading stories, and that was precisely the surprise they made. They made a donation of very funny and interesting books to the children of the school, for their library corner.

• Finally, all the teachers of Let's be Ready had a workshop on June 21 in Xenacoj; which was given by a person named Claudia Acevedo who is part of an organization called "ACTORAS DE CAMBIO". This organization defends both the rights of women and of people who have had the bad experience of going through some type of abuse, whether of freedom or sexual abuse. The workshop was about how in some parts of our country there are still very bad people who abuse the freedom of people, we saw some experiences of people who went through sexual abuse and how they managed to overcome that bad experience and what we can do now if we do not want this to remain part of our children's future. It was very interesting and made us raise awareness to be more interested in the welfare of our children and be more observant in case someone is going through a situation like this ...

That's all for now, our second "professional growth" training is approaching, that's what we'll talk about next month. It was a pleasure to share this information ...

Until next time.