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January/February 2013Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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" Hello, Hola, Bonjour, So wa de kap,

Konichiewa, BomDia!"(Which languages are these??? Ask your children)

Happy New Year to all!

Students, Teachers and Parents should all bevery proud of their efforts since our openingday. I wish you all a very safe and prosperousNew Year!

"PENSION"Thanks to parents who came forward toupdate their accounts. This helps us to run theschool more efficiently and maintain ourstandard of education for your children. If youhave not addressed your December andJanuary payment, please do so as soon aspossible. Your continued support isappreciated!

LaSierra NewsletterSchool Director:AndrewFrezludeenOffice Secretary: Alexa RuizCuanSchool Phone number: 584 5112

School email: [email protected]

Volume Number: 7 anuar 18, 2013

Important and Upcoming DatesJan. 1 New Year 2013 begins

Jan. 7, 8 Teachers in school for PD Day

Jan. 9 Students begin classesJan. 25 Informal Progress Reports go homeFeb. 11 HolidaySchool ClosedMar. 1st Formal Report Card

Mar. 18 MONGOLIA WEEKMar. 25-29 Holy WeekSchool ClosedApr. 24 - May 1 Festival VallenatoSchool Closed

May 13 Ascension DaySchool Closed

"DISCOVER MOROCCO WEEK!"

For 3 days in December, we celebratedMorocco and the week culminated with theparents visiting the school. Parents had tosay hello in Arabic! Fun was had by all andsome more international awareness wassurely created in our school community.Thanks to the parents who cooked some

food and who came to support the school!

Informal Progress Reports

January 25th

Next week, reports will be sent hometo highlight areas of concern. Pleasemake an appointment to see teachers ifthey indicate that your child is having

difficulty.


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Pillars of GOOD Character!

Students have been working on being CARING and being RESPONSIBLE which also means, attimes, being RESPECTFUL. They have also been working on being TRUSTWORTHY.

This week and next week, we are aiming to learn what CITIZENSHIP means!

Are you talking to your children about being a good citizen?Are they doing some tasks at home to make them more anything

to help their community?

Keep fit in Physical Education Class with Mr. Edilberto!


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Anyone want to go for a dip in the pool?

We have some very strong competitive swimmers too!

Swimmers who have shown very good progress in their swimming times:

Grade 2 Sofia Calvo25 metresImproved from 32 sec to 26 sec

Grade 4 Veronica Caldern

25 metres Improved from 24.02 sec to 21.43 sec

50 metres Improved from 52.49 sec to 41.55 sec

Grade 5 Mariana Daza25 metres Improved from 20.19 sec to 18.06 sec


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Morning AssemblyWe learn to say hello in 9 different languages! Ask your children

to teach you too

After school activities with Mr. Edilberto


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International Connection? Eyes on the world

Can you guess where in the world this is?

Answer: OnlyONEparent has ever answered correctly so far.will yoube the next parent with the right answer?

Who is Santa Claus anyway? Is this him?


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Looking back at the Christmas Play!

What a great show!Thanks to all who came and to all who participtiated!


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At La Sierra, they actually celebrate other culturesmore than once per year, like..MOROCCO!

Hmmmm..are these kids really from Morocco!

That food really looks yummy!


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More from this African country!


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Morocco? This looks like a good place for a napI willplan my next trip to Africa

How is Morocco similar to Colombia?


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Parents are discovering Morocco


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Reasons for Optimism in Today's World

Fareed Zakaria delivered a commencement speech atHarvard. While the audience was graduates, the message could apply to

a great many of us. This is an article that I thought parents might be interested in as we look out internationally and think

abour our world and the future of your children.

Where will your sons and daughters be in 20 years?

What is the world going to look like for them and for the rest of us?

By Fareed Zakaria (Editor of TIME magazine)

The best commencement speech I ever read was by the humorist Art Buchwald. He was brief, saying simply, Remember,

we are leaving you a perfect world. Dont screw it up.

You are not going to hear that message much these days. Instead, youre likely to hear that we are living through grim

economic times, that the graduates are entering the slowest recovery since the Great Depression. The worries are not just

economic. Ever since 9/11, we have lived in an age of terror, and our lives remain altered by the fears of future attacks and a

future of new threats and dangers. Then there are larger concerns that you hear about: The Earth is warming; were running

out of water and other vital resources; we have a billion people on the globe trapped in terrible poverty.

So, I want to sketch out for you, perhaps with a little bit of historical context, the world as I see it.

The world we live in is, first of all, at peace profoundly at peace. The richest countries of the world are not in

geopolitical competition with one another, fighting wars, proxy wars, or even engaging in arms races or cold wars.

This is a historical rarity. You would have to go back hundreds of years to find a similar period of great power peace. I know

that you watch a bomb going off in Afghanistan or hear of a terror plot in this country and think we live in dangerous times.

But here is the data. The number of people who have died as a result of war, civil war, and, yes, terrorism, is down 50

percent this decade from the 1990s. It is down 75 percent from the preceding five decades, the decades of the Cold

War, and it is, of course, down 99 percent from the decade before that, which is World War II. Harvard professor

Steven Pinkersays that we are living in the most peaceful times in human history.

The political stability we have experienced has allowed the creation of a single global economic system, in which countries

around the world are participating and flourishing. In 1980, the number of countries that were growing at 4 percent a year
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robust growthwas around 60. By 2007, it had doubled. Even now, after the financial crisis, that number is more than 80.

Even in the current period of slow growth, keep in mind that the global economy as a whole will grow 10 to 20 percent

faster this decade than it did a decade ago, 60 percent faster than it did two decades ago, and five times as fast as it did

three decades ago.

The result: The United Nations estimates that poverty has been reduced more in the past 50 years than in the previous

500 years. And much of that reduction has taken place in the last 20 years. The average Chinese person is 10 times richer than

he or she was 50 years agoand lives for 25 years longer. Life expectancy across the world has risen dramatically. We gain

five hours of life expectancy every day without even exercising! A third of all the babies born in the developed world

this year will live to be 100.

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