Pizza Time!

Thank you Chef Molly and Chef Brian for teaching us all about pizza and sharing your recipes with us today.

For the Love of Learning

We're celebrating of first month back at school at La Puerta Abierta where we have been cooking up innovative educational activities created to invoke a love for learning in our young students.

We cultivate a love for learning at our center by having loads of fun every day in a safe, nurturing and exploratory environment.

We've been  making music with our new music teacher Gaspar.

We've been exploring our new play garden built with the help of Natik  and Ulew Atitlan volunteers.  

We've been expressing ourselves artistically 

and theatrically.

We've been reading.

We've been forming friendships

and celebrating our silly selves!

A Life Filled with Wonder is...

 

a wonderful life.

 

Exploring treasures from the sea!

Ladybugs!

 

I adore the ladybug collection that our kindergarteners have been creating.  We'll be celebrating Father's Day on Monday and all of our exceptional fathers will receive a hand painted critter, made with love by their child to take home with them. 

 

 

Sunshine, Rain and Seeds

The rains have started in Guatemala and we've been working on turning our old sand box into a plant box.  Happy growing little seeds!

 

 

Busy Bees

Wow!  Here we are in March of 2013 and we're well into our third month of learning and exploration at La Puerta Abierta.  The days pass quickly with a group of 19 preschool students and 20 kindergartners and new a month  begins before we even  realize that the previous one has ended. 

We've been busy...

Busy exploring

 

Busy drawing

 

Busy playing

 

Busy making new friends

 

Busy celebrating

 

 

Busy painting

 

 

Busy working

 

Busy learning

 

Here's to our exceptional 39 busy little bees at La Puerta Abierta and our fantastic team of teachers!

 



All Smiles

All these smiles make me want to smile!  Do they make you want to smile too?

 

 

Miss Ana blows bubbles to her students at our Friday morning Mommy and Me class as she says good-bye to the children and their families.