SEMANA DEL 13 AL 17 DE ABRIL DE 2015

Grado /Asignatura	Tema	Tarea	Proyecto	Prueba/Examen
Sexto grado: América Latina I	Próceres de Latino   América	N/A	N/A	N/A
Séptimo grado: Historia de Honduras I	Proceso de Independencia de Honduras	N/A	N/A	N/A
Octavo grado: América Latina II	Países Latino Americanos	N/A	N/A	N/A
Noveno grado: Civismo	Derechos y Responsabilidades de los ciudadanos de un país.	N/A	N/A	N/A
Décimo grado: Historia de Hond.  II	Fin del período Independentista	N/A	N/A	N/A
Undécimo Grado: Desarrollo Socio-económico	Las Mipymes en Honduras	N/A	N/A	N/A
Duodécimo grado: Historia de las Culturas	Análisis del Himno Nacional de Honduras.	N/A	N/A

UPDATE ON PAVING – It appears that on Monday, perhaps Tuesday, the Paving Company will have finished the second traffic lane, completing the first phase of the paving project.  (The other two phases will be drainage on the side towards the hill, and a sidewalk on the school side of the road.)  Please do not drive on the new concrete lane until it is officially opened.  We will need at least 14 days after the completion the lane for it to resist the weight of our vehicles.  I will keep you notified.  Think happy thoughts! 

CLARIFICATION ON UPCOMING HOLIDAYS – We want to let everyone know that Tuesday, April 14 and Monday, April 20 will be regular school days. Our next holiday will be Friday, May 1, as per our school calendar.  We have already used up our “extra instructional days” for the completion of the paving project.  We will not cancel school another day this year except for what was previously in the calendar.  As always, parents have the authority to decide whether and when a child comes to school, but I encourage you all to cooperate with the established instructional calendar. 

INVITATION TO CURRENT PRE-SCHOOL PARENTS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES—

On Thursday, April 16, parents are invited to the pre-school area at 08:00 a.m. for a meeting to discuss the reorganization of the Early Childhood Program, particularly the Maternal and Pre-Kinder grades (although changes to Kinder and Grade 1 will also be discussed).  If you know anyone who might be interested in registering a child in these areas, even if they are not currently part of our school community, please invite them to join us. We will meet at the champa/shelter in front of the 1^st grade, and the school will be offering coffee, juice and cookies.  Dr. Ketterer will provide a clear vision for the Early Childhood Program that focuses on the integral development of your children. Be sure to pick up a copy of the April “CROMOS” magazine, or the April “ESTILO” to see our announcement about these changes.

MATH OLYMPICS – Last week, a group of Middle and High School students traveled to La Ceiba to participate in the ABSH Math Olympics. Our students did a fantastic job. The results our school obtained are the following:

Basic Math Category: Sofia Sherman, Liza Watson and Laura Toncel – SUPERIOR

Geometry Catergory: Valeria Martinez, Anna Cueva and Maria Fernanda Bran- EXCELLENT

Trigonometry Category: Victoria Glynn, Andrea Martinez and Dylan Hernandez – EXCELLENT

Thanks to all of them for their hard work and dedication, and to Mr. Cesar Martinez and Ms. Ashley Lardizabal for their valuable coaching, and to Mr. Cesar and Ms. Regina for chaperoning the trip to La Ceiba.

WORLD OF 7 BILLION COMMENDATIONS – With the curricular leadership of Ms. Ashley Pileika, our secondary students engaged in an international competition to define the problems of population growth and its impact on quality of life, the economy, and consequent social problems.  Congratulations to the following teams for advancing to the next round of the World of 7 Billion student video contest. Over the course of several weeks, each team researched the connection between population growth and education to create a short film proposing solutions for a sustainable future. The following groups were recognized from a selection of over 850 student entries world-wide: 

"Queremos una buena educación" - Nicole Fiallos, José Zúñiga, Juan Diego Caballero, Bessy Andino, and Jessica Lin

"The Unequivalence of the Uncommon" - Esteban Rosales, Fernando Herrera, Nohel Atuan, Sara Bueso, and Nicole Hernández 

"Educación" - Juan Sebastián Duron, Nicolle Rojas, Pamela López, and Daniel Bermúdez 

Winners will be announced on May 6th - best of luck to our talented Discovery students!

Special congratulations go to Nicole Fiallos and to Sara Bueso, who received the following letters from the international organization “World of 7 Billion”:

1.       Dear Nicole [Fiallos],

 I am pleased to inform you that your video “Queremos Una Buena Educación” has been chosen as a finalist in the World of 7 Billion contest among the entries focusing on the global education challenge! This is a huge accomplishment and you should be very proud of your work. Only ten videos in each category were chosen as finalists from the over 850 videos submitted this year. We have sent the final round of videos to a panel of expert judges who are in the process of reviewing them. Winners in each category will be announced publicly on Thursday, May 7th.

Congratulations on being a finalist and best of luck!!

 Carol Bliese
World of 7 Billion

2.       Hello Sara [Bueso],

We’d like to let you know that at this time your video has been selected to go on to the next round of judging in the World of 7 Billion student contest! We received over 800 submissions so this means your creation was among the top 20%. Congratulations for making this far! The next step in the judging process it to select the top 10 finalists from each of the three topic categories and we will announce those finalists on Thursday, April 2^nd. We hope you enjoyed creating a video; we definitely had a blast viewing them and were inspired by many of the messages you created.

Congratulations and thanks in advance for your thoughts and insights!

Carol Bliese
World of 7 Billion
Population Education

And, thank you, Ms. Ashley for your leadership and hard work!  Congratulations to Nicole and Sara.

SPANISH WEEK CELEBRATIONS –To commemorate the Day of the Spanish Language (April 23) the Spanihs and Spanish Social Studies teachers will carry out several activities with our students. Some of them are as follows:

*Inaguration Assembly– Monday, April 20 at 8:00 a.m. in the gym (Early Childhood and Elementary students in charge)

*Closing Assembly - Thursday, April 23 at 2:07 p.m. in the gym (Secondary students in charge)

*Classroom Activities related to the language, literature and music: April 20-22

*Rapid Search and Spelling competitions in the Elementary

12	13	14 Regular School Day for Students and Teachers! Early Childhood Meeting for Teachers 3:15 p.m. @ conference room	15	16 Early Childhood Program Talk 8:00 am	17 DPTO Sponsored Read-a-Thon Lunch Field Trip to Chili’s  for Winners Bricks4kidz Session #2	18
19	20 Regular School Day for Students and Teachers! Spanish Assembly 8:00 a.m. in the gym	21	22	23 Spanish Assembly 2:07 p.m. in the gym Area Meetings 3:15 p.m.	24 Bricks4kidz Session #3	25
26	27	28	29 Early Dismissal 11:45 a.m. (A.M. Schedule) Professional Development for Teachers	30	1 HOLIDAY Honduran Labor Day	2