Day Six- Tears and Cheers

Do you remember your first day of school? That is what we asked each other at lunch after spending 3 hours with the new pre-school children. We had lots of tears shed over the seperation of child and mother. Jerry decided to have a mini preschool this week to expose our incoming pre-school children. The teacher, Miss Dora, has gone to Belize City for training, so thankfully we have an Early Childhood teacher, Danielle, who speaks both English and Spanish. With the help of Dave, Susan, Nicole, and Jenna we were able to bring out a few cheers and smiles at the end of the morning. Thankfully, we also had a couple of mothers stay with us and help with the children.

While the teachers were in the workshops, Shelly, Tosha, Justin and Amy took on a couple of classes and broke out their Bible lessons and games.

Guess who else an appearance in the classroom? That's right....Johnetta and Jerry took over the 1st grade class. Johnetta was going over math (triple digit subraction and addition), spelling(one of the words was spaghetti), and science. Jerry went over reading. social studies, religion, chorus.










There are 179 students and about 80% of the children are bilingual. They have won awards for sports. The girls volleyball team went to nationals for the 2nd time in the last three years. Jorge reported that out of 400 schools our school is in the top 20!!!

Not only are these children accomplished but they are very social. I can't tell you how many hellos, good mornings, good afternoons I received. They smile, ask questions and are very energetic. We hope by September 2007 we will have over 200 students!!!

Here is Faye training teachers with new tools and materials.