Friday, August 26, 2011

Colegio Latino

We have survived the first week of school. It's amazing how well our children are doing. I personally had a meeting with Emma's teacher and her principal and after sitting with them for an hour, I have to admit that we have enrolled our daughters in one of the finest schools in Tabasco. The teachers do care about them and are doing whatever it takes to integrate them into the classroom and the school. In order to help them understand Spanish better, they have created a special Spanish as a Second Language class from 11:00 to 12:00 that will be in place just for them. Emma's teacher asked her classmates to write a Welcome letter to her. Today Emma came home excited and immediately showed us the amazing letters they gave her with encouraging words and extremely sweet words of love and friendship. We were completely amazed!!! The level of education is completely different here. I was in shock when I saw the content of each subject, so we are going to have to do some teaching at home because unfortunately, our children did not study the advanced material Mexican students had last school year. Every day, they have had homework. They arrived at 1:00 pm, had lunch, and then homework until 4:00 or 5:00 pm. In order to have a balance, Gina does basketball three times a week and the kids have swim practice three times a week as well.

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  1. seems like they are doing great, so glad for this experience for you all:)

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