UNITED NATIONS DAY
OCTOBER 24th
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
Listening Exercises for all levels!
This English listening Web site created by Randall Davis helps school and highschool students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice.
Click on this link:
www.esl-lab.com
Monday, August 12, 2013
Online games to learn and practice English!
ESL Games Plus offers interactive online games for learning English. These games are mostly suitable for Kids and Teenagers. There are activities for practising English grammar, vocabulary, sentences, listening and pronunciation skills. By playing these fun educational games, students learn English vocabulary, sentence structures, grammar, listening and pronunciation.
Click on this link below:
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/
Mother's Day, August 15th
This coming August 15th we will celebrate our Costa Rican Mother's Day. Check this song out and sing along with your mom! Best wishes to all moms out there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50kw86NiyM
A poem dedicated to all moms:
My Mom – Anonymous
Perfect for the mom of a little one too little to say it on their own.
My mom is very special,
My mom is very kind,
My mom always tells me I'm special,
She's always on my mind.
My mom watches me grow,
My mom watches me cry,
Of course she'll always know,
She'll never have to tell me goodbye.
My mom will always hug and kiss,
My mom will always care.
My days she will never miss,
Coz I'm her little teddy bear.
My mom is very special,
My mom is very kind,
My mom always tells me I'm special,
She's always on my mind.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
The Angelus
Hey kids!!!!
We are praying the Angelus everyday at noon. Here you have it in English.
The Angelus
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The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary:
And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy
word.
And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us.
Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray:
Amen.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
St Francisco Coll y Guitart (1812-1875)
MAY 19th
St Francisco Coll y Guitart was born on 18
May 1812 in the small village of Gombreny, in the Diocese of Vic, Catalonia. He
was the 10th and last child of a wool carder.
At the age of 10 he was sent to the Seminary in
Vic in 1823. He completed his studies in 1830 and that same year entered the
Convent of the Order of Preachers in Gerona, founded only about 35 years after
St Dominic de Guzman's death. He made his solemn profession and received the
Diaconate in 1831.
Contemporaries of Fr Coll testify that he always
behaved as a man of God and led an exemplary life. In 1835 religious orders in
Spain were forcibly suppressed and Friar Francisco Coll, was obliged to abandon
his convent and become a secularized Dominican. He was nevertheless ordained a
priest on 28 May 1836 despite the risks involved.
Indeed, in spite of being unable because of the
new anti-clerical laws to live in his convent or to wear his habit, he remained
a Dominican all his life in all that he was and all that he did. Soon after his
ordination Francisco offered his services to his Bishop and for 40 years
exercised his ministry as an itinerant missionary in the parishes of northeast
Spain. Impelled by an irresistible force, he started to preach as a new apostle,
"the apostle of modern times". Like the Founder of his Order, he received no
stipend nor would he accept donations; he was a preacher of popular missions. He
prayed for long hours, studied and dedicated a great deal of time to preparing
sermons for preaching the missions. He believed in the efficacy of collaboration
and gave spiritual exercises to the priests in the region. Thus he collaborated
with diocesan priests, Jesuits, Claretians, Augustinians and fellow Dominicans.
With his friend, St Anthony Mary Claret, he founded the "Apostolic Fellowship"
for evangelization in 1846.
He preached to cloistered nuns and prisoners,
visited the sick and imparted catechesis to children, always encouraging the
devotion to the Virgin Mary.
His complete trust in God and his apostolic zeal
motivated him to gather a group of young women who had already chosen to follow
Jesus' call. In 1850 he was appointed Director of the Secular Order of Dominican
Tertiaries, which enabled him to found the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters
of the Anunciata in 1856 to solve the problem of the Christian formation of
girls, then considered inferior to boys.
When Fr Coll died, according to the Congregation
he founded, there were already 300 sisters and 50 communities dedicated to the
Christian education of children, mainly girls. Today the Congregation has about
1,039 members in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
Fr Coll y Guitart lost his sight and then his
mental faculties and was cared for by the nuns of his Congregation. He died in
Vic on 2 April 1875 at the age of 62. His body was exposed in the chapel of his
religious and they buried him in the local cemetery. His mortal remains were
later translated to the chapel of the Mother House.
John Paul II beatified him on 29 April 1979. In
his Homily for Fr Coll's Beatification, the Pope described him as "a transmitter
of faith, a sower of hope, a preacher of love, peace and reconciliation among
those whom passions, war and hatred keep divided", and "a real man of God", a
"man of prayer", who made his priestly and religious identity a source of
inspiration, with the words, "I am a religious" constantly on his lips.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Primary..
Let's practice this song!!
It`s my life - Bon Jovi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SKFwtgUJHs
Pre-School..
Let's practice this song!!
Five little monkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXOKkxc0BA
Let's practice this song!!
It`s my life - Bon Jovi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SKFwtgUJHs
Pre-School..
Let's practice this song!!
Five little monkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXOKkxc0BA
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
The First Labor Day
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.
Reference
"United States Department of Labor: The History of Labor Day". Retrieved 2011-09-02.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Let's celebrate the Day of Non-Violence
Let's celebrate the Day of Non-Violence...
Try to sing this song and practice new vocabulary
Thursday, March 14, 2013
This is an Irish holiday in
honor to Saint Patrick, who is credited with bringing Christianity to
Ireland. This holiday is
a traditional day for spiritual renewal and offering prayers for missionaries
worldwide.
St. Patrick`s Day is celebrated on March 17th in
many places around the world.
St. Patrick's Day is a
holiday known for parades, shamrocks and all things Irish. Also leprechauns and
the color green.
Saint Patrick is said to
have used the shamrocks (a three-leaved plant) to explain the Holy
Trinity to the pagans, and the wearing and display of shamrocks have
become a global item of the day.
- St. Patrick's Day Activities (coloring pages, crafts, games)
- Watch the following videos about St. Patrick's Day
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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