La Escuela Ha Comenzado! For our 3 boys and the rest of the country, school began last week. The school year runs from January to October in Guatemala. After homeschooling for a couple of years, we decided that it would be good to put the boys in school here for several reasons - learn Spanish faster, get them out of the house and for them to be/feel more a part of the culture here. We chose a private school that educates with the intent of it's students going to college in the US. With one week down, everything is going well. We have adjusted to getting up at o'dark thirty and out the door by 6:30am. Jack will do fine and Jon will do better once he learns a little more Spanish to know when he has homework. Jed liked school the first day and then got over it. I'm enjoying my newfound freedom too much to give in to his tears so we will persevere a little longer. :)
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| Jack has ALOT of homework! |
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| Jon wishing he didn't have homework. :) | | |
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Not only are our boys in school and need lots of help with homework, so do the kids in our families. Thanks to the folks at Remedy Church in Jacksonville, we have 2 computers set up in our dining room to help. Marvin, Pamela and Wendy have been over every day to use them. At first we didn't realize that they really didn't know how to use the computer/internet. They could search for things but didn't know that when the search results came up, you could click on each site for more information. We had to teach them the basics and how to use wikipedia. Now they can do most things on their own. It's little things like this that can make a difference in their success at school.
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| Wendy doing homework |
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