Gender Equality Guatemala Project #12451

Lets Be Ready

by Lets Be Ready

Project Report | Mar 26, 2020
"Overcoming Challenges"

By Margarita Bejarano | Teacher

Learning the color Red

"The True sign of Intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination" (Albert Einstein)

Hello everyone, how are you? I hope it's ok.
In this report I want to tell you a little about how we started our school activities in our different "Lets Be Ready" centers.

I have noticed that most of our teachers are putting into practice all the ideas and suggestions that we showed them in the training for the month of January; because they are very fun ideas. The children have loved it very much, as their facial expressions demonstrate it; as you can see in the images below.

We are working on fine motor skills, performing eye-hand exercises, using the clay to mold, the tweezers with the thumb and index finger, tearing paper, painting with the fingers and making strokes of the letters that make up its name. We also work with primary and secondary colors, making crafts with different types of recycled material.

In physical education we make games to work with balance, laterality and coordination; skills that are not yet fully mastered. Children love this class, as we try to make physical activities always fun and entertaining.

"I want to tell you something very particular that happens at the school of" Los Izotes "in San Juan Sacatepéquez. Our teacher Lidia, who works there, tells in her report that a mother named Astrid, who has her son Elvin in the program; After preparing the Atol, he goes to the Library corner to bring books to read. Take time to analyze them well and understand the stories. When he finishes, before going home he borrows some books to read there, this indicates that he wants to excel and foster a good desire for reading in his son ”.

On the other hand, we have already started with the size and weight that is done every year in our different schools to start the “Chispuditos” program with the nutritious drink, which has done so much for our children in Guatemala. Parents are very happy to have this program one more year; That is why we thank all our sponsors, who make it possible with their donations, that our children can consume this atol. Thank you so much…

Everyone in the program is very happy to have started this school year with great success; but as you know there are always challenges or difficult situations that we face. This year was not the exception, because we know that worldwide we are going through an unexpected situation, since due to the COVID-19 disease; We have suspended classes in our country for a week. The government is doing everything possible so that this disease does not spread too much. That is why we are following all the precautionary measures that have been given to us. We hope soon to resume our activities with the children so that we can share with you what we do. Thank God we are all doing well, both our children and their families, our teachers and supervisors.

We hope in God to get out of this situation soon, that is why we want to tell you that if we all collaborate and follow the instructions or precautionary measures, "together" we will succeed and fight against this virus that has affected the world so much. Please stay home if there is no need to go out and take good care of yourself.

I am writing to you soon ...

Bubbles with recyclable material

Fine motor

Using our tweezers

A new and very fun idea

to work with our feet

She is Astrid Elvin's mother

He is Elvin, Lidia's student at the Izotes

Drinking "Chispuditos"

Coordination exercises

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Mar 2, 2020
The First Report of 2020

By Margarita Bejarano | Teacher

2020 team of teachers

Hello everyone, it is a pleasure to write to you again in this new year, full of dreams and goals to fulfill. I hope you are well so that you can enjoy how we started the trainings and classes with our teachers, and children.

During the third week of January, we attended the training we have annually before starting the school year, it was very good. This focused on what children learn in Reading-Writing and how we can improve our teaching methods in the area of Communication and Language, so that children get better prepared for elementary school.

Something very important that we also learned was how to improve our tools when evaluating. The group of teachers in Santo Domingo Xenacoj took care of this part in the training; and let me tell you that they made a very good presentation. The preparation of the whole group was noted as they made a very summary of the national base curriculum used in our country to plan.

We had the pleasant visit of our dear founder Fred Zambroski; like all years. Fred expressed his excitement for starting the year, the hard work that our teachers do in different communities and the goal of expanding more this year to reach communities with more need for preschool education.

Liza also arrived, representative of the organization that gives us the atoll or the nutritious drink called “Chispuditos”. He showed us the progress that is being made with children thanks to this nutritious drink and new ideas on how to prepare it. We were encouraged to make this same presentation with our group of parents in the different communities where we are, because they will better understand the importance of having their children drink this drink.

We hope that, for the next training, in July; we can meet all the goals we have set as a group, both to improve our activities and our work; To make it more professional.

For this year we made contact with the organization of WINGS, an entity that is in charge of giving mothers, talks about Family Planning and accessibility to improve on it.

On January 20, we started classes at our different educational centers, with new children and places, eager to put into practice everything we learned in our training.

Greetings to all our Donors. Thank you, thank you very much for your support and collaboration. The truth is that without their contributions we could not help our children who need it so much. We hope that this year you can join more to support our cause, just click on the DONATE button ...

I will write soon.

A new idea shared by Jessica

Making bubbles with recyclable material

Putting the idea of bubbles into practice

A fun new game for children

This is a book donation.

delivery of school supplies

They are Lety and Jessica

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Dec 2, 2019
"End of the 2019 school year"

By Margarita Bejarano | Teacher

Pamanzana community!

We are very happy and satisfied to finish another year, at the same time also sad to say goodbye to our 6 year old boys, who next year begin their first grade of primary school.

We have had very good results in all our schools, as we told you at the beginning of the year, we set ourselves the goal of improving more and using the Learning Centers in a more effective way; And thanks to that we meet our goals.

The support of the Parents certainly played a very important role in the education of their children, the support and help they provided to each of our teachers served a lot for the community and each of its families.

This year we closed children in the 23 schools, we got 6-year-olds to learn to read, write, count, add, subtract, etc ... In the training we had in July, it also helped us to improve the use of the Centers of Learning; the changes in children were quite noticeable both in their development and in their attitude. They developed very well the 4 developments of the Creative Curriculum (Socioemotional, Physical, Cognitive and Linguistic), this made it possible for them to learn to defend their rights, respect and take care of each of the materials and the environment in each corner; to play with their peers without problem, follow instructions and routines in class, and demonstrate safety and independence when making decisions.

I think that this year we accomplished a lot and we hope to continue next year, that is why we thank all the sponsors and people who support us every year with their donations; the truth is that they are not only contributing to improve the education of children, but also to improve their life and that of their family, but especially for the country.

Thank you thank you very much…

For the other year we have the goal of reaching more rural areas in the different departments in the country, but for this we will need your support and collaboration. We hope to fulfill it and continue providing quality education for the children of Guatemala.

This has been everything for this year, we hope to tell you more about our activities and adventures.

See you soon…

Community of Santo Domingo Xenacoj

Community of Chirijuyu/Tecpan

Community of Chuchuca Bajo/Patzun

Our teacher Yessenia with her student

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