Lar Project Year End Fun

This year at the Lar project we got a little more brave in doing our year-end presentation – the students did a skit of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, a spelling bee, and a dance presentation. My younger class sang the A-B-C song and all were presented with certificates of completion for this year of English. It’s always a lot of work getting ready, the students are tired and nervous about their roles, but in end it was all a success! After the presentation, I had a Christmas party planned for them, and in my craziness, decided to have the students make their own sugar cookies. This proved to be a bigger hit than I had suspected – they all loved it! I had three mom’s visit also, and it was fun showing them how to make the cut out cookies as well.

Preparation for Goldilocks

In the weeks before our presentation, my students listened to the Goldilocks story on CD, read the book, watched videos, and did various worksheets and projects to learn about the characters and house items in English.  I was going to try and make porridge, but decided against it!

 

Finished products  

The Presentation

Both morning and afternoon students presented, and we had four students be the main characters, with the rest of the students wearing a placard indicating which story part they were: a bowl, a chair, or a bed!

 

Above, the morning class bears finding baby bear’s chair broken (girl on floor), below, the afternoon class bears and Goldilocks

 

 

Above right, Vinicius wrote and told a story of seeing Goldilocks running through the woods after fleeing the three bears house!

The Spelling Bee     

Sheer terror struck my students at the thought of spelling words in front of Everyone at the Lar, and spelling in English was even more terrifying, but in the end they took this task seriously, studied, and did a good job! Mayara won the morning session, and Paula and Natalia Sabrina won the afternoon, which had two spelling bees broken down by age.

A-B-C Song

My younger classes each sang the A-B-C song for their presentation and received certificates of participation.

Certificates

Christmas Party

I had a Brazilian friend come help me in the morning session, and she had recently visited the United States, so I had her speak to my students about her trip and the importance of learning English.

I also read the Christmas story, and the kids made crafts, did word searches and played Christmas bingo.

 

Cookies! Cookies and More Cookies!

Since my students ask me every year for the recipe to make the sugar cookies, I thought it would be fun to show them how to make them. There was flour and sugar sprinkles everywhere, but they had a blast!

Above, two mother’s came to visit and took part in the baking with their daughters

 

Parting Class Shots

 

Merry Christmas and Joyous 2012 to all!

“Be glad and rejoice with all your heart.” Zephaniah 3:14

December Activities

This month I finished my Super Seminars with the local Sao Paulo chapter of Child Evangelism Fellowship, and we had a graduation program to end our training. It was good to get to know some of the people in the area who are running CEF, as well as get the training reviewed and learned in portuguese.

My class (right) and receiving  my certificate (above)

 

 

 

 

SPACE Program

If you recall from a previous blog, I had recommended two girls to be considered for entrance into a local SP private school; one of the girls, Jennifer, was awarded with a full scholarship, and I had the opportunity to meet with the program coordinators at their church on Sunday, where they presented about the program and highlighted Jennifer. It was nice to meet them personally and learn more details of their program. Keep Jennifer in your prayers as she starts a new school year soon in a much more demanding school setting.

 

 

 

 

 

AMIS Year-end party

The Morumbi Association that assists in Vila Andrade had a year-end party and gift giving day, which the kids and families in the community really enjoyed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WorldVenture Christmas party

Jr Church Christmas Fun – Birthday party for Jesus!

Vila Andrade Wrap up

My four years of teaching at Vila Andrade ended this month with a ceremony for certificates and a Christmas party. It was a bittersweet day of rewarding my students for their hard work and saying good-bye. I encouraged each one of them to continue studying English through their schools, online, and other means they can find. Please pray for Mayara, Kaique, Renata, Mirelle, Ana Carol, Alex, Nilton and Leticia to not lose their dreams of a better life!

Certificates

 

Christmas Party!

 

 

    

 Final Shots

 

Above, Ana posing by her picture; right, Mirelle picking her rewards for the year.

 

 

 

Above, Kaique with his mom in their home; Mayara with a shirt I gave her for her birthday, which says, “We are the architects of our dreams.”

Cards I gave each of them with their certificates.

Sharing a fun Christmas video from Hillsong

Fun Christmas kids video from Hillsong album 'Born is the King'

November 2011

In the last month our South Brazil field was privileged to have our President and two others from the WorldVenture HQ make a visit to us here in Brazil as they did some traveling around South America. It was good to put a face to names I had seen in communications, as well as hear from Hans Finzel, our President, about his decision to move on from WorldVenture and the search for his replacement. Please join in prayer with our mission about the search process and that God will bring us the right person as Han’s replacement.

(Below: myself, Hans Finzel, Chris Wynn, communications director, and Jeff Denlinger, Finance Director)  During their visit we were able to see a colleagues ministry in the city of Campinas, an hour away from São Paulo. I sat in on part of the ‘Kids club’ time that was hosted by my colleagues church and some visitors from the States.

 

 

At Vila Andrade, we are finishing the English book and wrapping up classes next week. We will have a Christmas party and graduation in December. Below students learning about food.

 

The Lar project has been busy with year-end activities as well.  This month they held a “Spring Fest” (as it is spring here and not autumn!) and each class gave a presentation about spring, and there was voting for the Spring Prince/Princess and King/Queen. The older students had fun dressing up for that! (Below: Some of ‘my girls’)

My student Mayara was voted ‘Queen’ (for the morning session)

Below, my afternoon students looking snazzy!

The younger kids had fun in costumes as well!

In this younger class, I gave a quick history lesson about American Thanksgiving during Thanksgiving week; the kids thought it was funny a turkey was the symbol! They colored pilgrims and did a maze/math sheet on the holiday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have my first student who earned 20 points in homework assignments! Stephanie has worked hard!

Her classmate earned 15 points and finally got the jump rope she has had her eye on. She ran around the room saying “I’m so happy! I’m so happy!”