Dancing Festival 2010

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San Francis of Assisi

San Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone; 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226) was a Catholic deacon and preacher. He also was the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.
He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy (with Catherine of Siena), and it is customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October.
Francis of Assisi was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France. Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and Pica had him baptised as Giovanni di Bernardone in honor of Saint John the Baptist, in the hope he would grow to be a great religious leader. When his father returned to Assisi, he took to calling him Francesco, possibly in honor of his commercial success and enthusiasm for all things French.
As a youth, Francesco—or Francis in English—became a devotee of troubadours and was fascinated with all things French. Although many hagiographers remark about his bright clothing, rich friends, street brawls, and love of pleasure, his displays of disillusionment toward the world that surrounded him came fairly early in his life, as is shown in the "story of the beggar." In this account, he was selling cloth and velvet in the marketplace on behalf of his father when a beggar came to him and asked for alms. At the conclusion of his business deal, Francis abandoned his wares and ran after the beggar. When he found him, Francis gave the man everything he had in his pockets. His friends quickly chided and mocked him for his act of charity. When he got home, his father scolded him in rage.
In 1201, he joined a military expedition against Perugia and was taken as a prisoner at Collestrada, spending a year as a captive. It is possible that his spiritual conversion was a gradual process rooted in this experience. Upon his return to Assisi in 1203, Francis returned to his carefree life and in 1204, a serious illness led to a spiritual crisis. In 1205 Francis left for Puglia to enlist in the army of the Count of Brienne. A strange vision made him return to Assisi, deepening his ecclesiastical awakening
Francis of Assisi by Francisco de Zurbarán.
According to the hagiographic legend, thereafter he began to avoid the sports and the feasts of his former companions; in response, they asked him laughingly whether he was thinking of marrying, to which he answered "yes, a fairer bride than any of you have ever seen", meaning his "lady poverty". He spent much time in lonely places, asking God for enlightenment. By degrees he took to nursing lepers, the most repulsive victims in the lazar houses near Assisi. After a pilgrimage to Rome, where he begged at the church doors for the poor, he said he had had a mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the Church of San Damiano just outside of Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified said to him, "Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins". He thought this to mean the ruined church in which he was presently praying, and so sold some cloth from his father's store to assist the priest there for this purpose.
His father Pietro, highly indignant, attempted to change his mind, first with threats and then with beatings. After legal proceedings before the bishop, Francis renounced his father and his patrimony, laying aside even the garments he had received from him. For the next couple of months he lived as a beggar in the region of Assisi. Returning to the countryside around the town for two years this time, he restored several ruined churches, among them the Porziuncola--little chapel of St Mary of the Angels--just outside the town, which

Dancing Festival 2010

WORKING HAND BY HAND IN ENGLISH: Learning is FUN

WORKING HAND BY HAND IN ENGLISH: Learning is FUNWe aim to provide children in Early Years with educational experiences which will help them develop a positive approach to learning. By creating a learning environment where children feel at home, they will be more willing to explore new concepts and ideas. Self-discipline, a sense of responsibility, and respect for others are encouraged. Classroom walls are covered with displays of children's art and craft, as well as language-based information to help them develop literacy skills. Displays of educational material related to topics being studied helps further stimulate their enthusiasm. Early years (3-5 yeras)

English: This curriculum area covers important aspects of language development and provides the foundation for literacy. Children are helped to acquire competence in English as soon as possible. Particular emphasis is laid on speaking and listening and in pre-reading and pre-writing activities.

Little Francis

When I cry, I'll remember to stand in the sun so that my tears will become rainbows.
When you're at a hopeless end, trust God and you'll have an endless hope.

Little Francis

Hurtful things wrinkle my heart- forgiveness puts it back into shape.
Sometimes we need a change of heart.


It's best to try and look at others from the inside out
God makes everyone's heart the same color.

Little Francis

He was born to nobility.
He gave it up for simplicity.
He'd answer to the voice of greed.
"God's love is all I'll ever need".

He didn't use philosophy.
He hadn't heard of ecology.
He didn't preach theology.
He simply lived God's love.

He listened to the mountains; the valleys too.
He listened to the water and sky so blue.
He loved to listen to the turtle doves.
They told him stories about God's love.

He often talked to Mother Earth,
thanking her for giving birth.
The sun, moon and starts above,
sand him their songs about God's love.

He never thought he was superior.
He saw no creature as inferior.
Humans, flowers, birds and trees; all belong to God's family.

We can pray for equality.
We can strive for harmony.
We can apply technology,
but we are nothing without God's love.

Learning is RESPECT

All students need to be actively engaged and participating in learning as a whole class, in small groups, with partners and individually. Students need to be provided with an environment where they feel safe to share, learn and make mistakes. I think that a cooperative learning environment helps students learn to make group decisions, handle conflicts and care about the success of the whole group. Students need to be taught rules and routines for positive group interactions so that all students feel valued and respected as a group member. Students need to be taught to respect each other’s differences and to value the contributions that each member of the class makes. I hope to be part of a classroom that stimulates my students to reach their highest potential both academically and socially.

Learning is TEACHING

As a teacher, I need to earn my student’s respect by consistently enforcing the rules with all students in a fair and supportive manner. I need to model the behaviors that I want my students to use by saying please and thank you and showing respect to each individual. I think it is important to create an environment that encourages and rewards positive behavior, and helps to prevent problems by “catching students being good” and keeping them engaged and excited to learn. I think that one of the most important techniques in classroom management is using positive reinforcement.

Learning is LOVE

My responsibility as a teacher is to provide students with a positive, accepting environment that helps each of them to be successful academically and socially. This relates to the preparation of an engaging and inclusive physical environment, as well as a positive learning environment that respects and values each student as an individual and as a contributing part of our class. Students need to know that I care about them, including their culture and home life, and that I hold high expectations for each and every one of them.

Learning is FUN

Learning is a PROCESS

Learning is essential to our existence, a fundamental part of humanity. It is an individual and social process that humans are constantly engaged in, both consciously and unconsciously. Learning occurs across a wide range of contexts and situations, in both formal and informal settings, including languages. In studying learning, however, much of the emphasis has been on what, where and how people learn. There has been little research that seeks to uncover why people learn and how they view themselves as a learner across a variety of learning contexts, with a number of qualitative and quantitative studies undertaken

YOU Learn when YOU Trust

You cannot trust others, life, change, if you do not trust yourself. The process of life requires entrustment. To trust means that you are ready and willing to remain open to all possibilities.
Creativity is the symptom or the blossom of curiosity. To move with pure and innocent curiosity (like a small child) towards something, requires that you trust.
Trust is not absence of fear. To trust means that you are willing to move, even though you are afraid. Fear then becomes an ally that shows you.

Learning AS A PRODUCT

Learning as a quantitative increase in knowledge. Learning is acquiring information or ‘knowing a lot’.
Learning as memorising. Learning is storing information that can be reproduced.
Learning as acquiring facts, skills, and methods that can be retained and used as necessary.
Learning as making sense or abstracting meaning. Learning involves relating parts of the subject matter to each other and to the real world.
Learning as interpreting and understanding reality in a different way. Learning involves comprehending the world by reinterpreting knowledge.

Knowing 'THAT" and knowing "HOW"

I want to talk about learning. But not the lifeless, sterile, futile, quickly forgotten stuff that is crammed in to the mind of the poor helpless individual tied into his seat by ironclad bonds of conformity! I am talking about LEARNING - the insatiable curiosity that drives the adolescent boy to absorb everything he can see or hear or read about gasoline engines in order to improve the efficiency and speed of his 'cruiser'. I am talking about the student who says, "I am discovering, drawing in from the outside, and making that which is drawn in a real part of me." I am talking about any learning in which the experience of the learner progresses along this line: "No, no, that's not what I want"; "Wait! This is closer to what I am interested in, what I need"; "Ah, here it is! Now I'm grasping and comprehending what I need and what I want to know!"

Peru

From the high plains of the altiplano to the depths of the Amazon Rainforest we will take you on a breathless journey to uncover the real Peru.
With more climates and biodiversity than anywhere else on the planet, and a history that goes back 5000 years, Peru is also a top gourmet destination.
Peru, in western South America, extends for nearly 1,500 mi (2,414 km) along the Pacific Ocean. Colombia and Ecuador are to the north, Brazil and Bolivia to the east, and Chile to the south. Five-sixths the size of Alaska, Peru is divided by the Andes Mountains into three sharply differentiated zones. To the west is the coastline, much of it arid, extending 50 to 100 mi (80 to 160 km) inland. The mountain area, with peaks over 20,000 ft (6,096 m), lofty plateaus, and deep valleys, lies centrally. Beyond the mountains to the east is the heavily forested slope leading to the Amazonian plains.
Peru was once part of the great Incan Empire and later the major vice-royalty of Spanish South America. It was conquered in 1531–1533 by Francisco Pizarro. On July 28, 1821, Peru proclaimed its independence, but the Spanish were not finally defeated until 1824. For a hundred years thereafter, revolutions were frequent; a new war was fought with Spain in 1864–1866, and an unsuccessful war was fought with Chile from 1879 to 1883 (the War of the Pacific).
Peru emerged from 20 years of dictatorship in 1945 with the inauguration of President José Luis Bustamente y Rivero after the first free election in many decades. But he served for only three years and was succeeded in turn by Gen. Manuel A. Odria, Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, and Fernando Belaúnde Terry. On Oct. 3, 1968, Belaúnde was overthrown by Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado. In 1975, Velasco was replaced in a bloodless coup by his prime minister, Gen. Francisco Morales Bermudez, who promised to restore civilian government. In elections held on May 18, 1980, Belaúnde Terry, the last civilian president, was elected president again.
The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso, began their brutal campaign to overthrow the government in 1980. The military's subsequent crackdown led to further civilian human rights abuses and disappearances. A smaller rebel group, Tupac Amaru, also fought against the government. About 69,000 people were killed during the 1980–2000 wars between rebel groups and the government. The deaths were carried out by the rebels (54%) as well as the military (30%); other militias were responsible for the remainder

AREQUIPA

Arequipa is located at an altitude of 2325 m in the desert mountains of the Andes. This beautiful city is practically completly built out of sillar, a kind of white volcanic stone. This is why Arequipa is called the White City. With its one milion inhabitants, Arequipa is the second biggest city of Peru. The main square, the Plaza de Armas is the most beautiful of the country. The magnificent Catedrál and the shopping malls are in colonial style. It is the city of eternal Spring.

During the class

They are learning fun.

HOMEWORKS

Here all the home works that you follow as per my instructions.

Secundary

Primary

Personal and Social Development: This programme focuses on children learning how to work, play, co-operate with others and function in a group beyond the family.

Physical Development:This programme aims to help children develop physical control, mobility, awareness of space and manipulative skills in indoor and outdoor environments. Children are actively encouraged to establish positive attitudes towards a healthy and active way of life in our english curriculum.

Early years 3-5 ages

English: This curriculum area covers important aspects of language development and provides the foundation for literacy. Children are helped to acquire competence in English as soon as possible. Particular emphasis is laid on speaking and listening and in pre-reading and pre-writing activities

About US

We aim to provide children in Early Years with educational experiences which will help them develop a positive approach to learning. By creating a learning environment where children feel at home, they will be more willing to explore new concepts and ideas. Self-discipline, a sense of responsibility, and respect for others are encouraged. Classroom walls are covered with displays of children's art and craft, as well as language-based information to help them develop literacy skills. Displays of educational material related to topics being studied helps further stimulate their enthusiasm

About our Project

Recognising its historic foundation, Nuestra Señora de Fatima School preserve and develop its religious character in accordance with the principles of the Church of Peru.

The School aims to serve its community by providing an education of the highest quality within the context of Catolic belief and practice. It encourages an understanding of the meaning and significance of faith and promotes Christian values through the experience it offers to its pupils.

Also Nuestra Señora de Fatima School has an English Program " Working hand by hand in English" and into this program we have many activities:

- Jesus in ours lives.

- Taller de reforzamiento.

- CCPN Certification

- Fatima Quiz

- Singing Along.

- Learning and having fun

- Reading from A-Z