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Special Announcements & Reminders:
Soccer Games and Swim Meet Versus CDS Escazu on Saturday!
Earth Day Beach Clean Up April 24th
Coffee House Next Friday Evening April 24th
Beach Challenge Saturday April 25th
Last Poker Night Fundraiser Wednesday April 29
5th Grade Sate/Country Fair Thursday Morning April 30th
Mr. Haun will be away at AASCA Directors' Meeting April 30
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CDSG Weekly News
April 16, 2009
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Director's Corner
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Hope you enjoyed your Semana Santa break. Spring break always brings with it the promise of warm rains and the fact that school is quickly coming to a close. We have only 7 weeks remaining but we have a year's worth of activities planned in those 7 weeks! We have plays, a coffee house evening, the Beach Challenge, Earth Day activities, more poker evenings, Awards Ceremonies, more soccer games and a swim competion tomorrow, more baseball games on Saturdays, AP exams, SAT exams, 6th grade and 12th grade graduation ceremonies, and a trip to Washigton D.C. with Mr. Berey. OK, take a breath, we can do it. We're heading towards summer with bang and a roar like we should. After a year like this what will you do with yourselves all summer? Seriously, we do have lots of great activities coming up and I hope to see you out there at all of them. Our kids have worked hard in the classroom and out on the playing field in order to do their best and make all of you proud, so you are obligated to come out and show your support.
Important Notice: we have the college counselor from Escazu campus, Anna Oliveras, coming to visit our school on Tuesday and Wednesday next week in order to meet with parents and students of 11/12th graders. Please call or come in to make an appointment for any time Wednesday.
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Coffe House Coming
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Remember to plan to be at our annual Coffee House event. This is the time when many of our students and teachers come to show off their many talents from theatre to song or spoken work or just plain goofiness. It's all in fun and a good time for all. Next friday evening at 6:00, be there.
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Elementary Lock-In
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The elementary students had a "Lock-In" a couple of weeks ago where they all stayed the night and watched movies and played games and ate together at school. It was so much fun that it inspired this amazing fictional recollection of the evening by two of our sixth graders. I hope you enjoy!.
Jan Lerch (w/inspiration by Omar Garcia)
ESL Grade 6
26.03.2009
Prison for a Night
Last Friday, March 20, the 3-6 graders were locked in a prison called CDSG. The NHS guards locked us in for no reason at all. We were just common students who committed no crime.
The first thing they did, was that they made us do field work for hours. They finally gave us pizza, but we thought that it was poison. After that we celebrated a prisoner's birthday. Then they made us watch a Pre-K movie as educational propaganda. After all those horrible things, they locked us in Mr. Joe's room to go to sleep. The girls were locked in the library. It was a long night. You couldn't sleep, because if you did the other prisoners would do pranks on you. If you would try to escape, the NHS guards would catch you. The girls had similar problems.
Then, in the middle of the night, in desperation some prisoners threw a stink bomb at who they thought was a guard. The explosion was huge and it woke everyone up. The smell was horrible. It smelled like rotten eggs or burning sulfur. One of the bad NHS guards walked in and screamed at us, and he started hitting us with invisible sticks. After that he put us into different cells. Then he spread sleeping gas inside and we finally fell asleep.
It seemed a very short time had passed when the guards woke us up and made us go to work. They wanted to make us work, but we grabbed dodge balls and started to attack them. After a fight of 2 hours the NHS guards finally defeated us. Later, our parents came and while they were paying them bill they gave us breakfast. Then we finally got released by the warden.
It was one of the funniest jails we've ever been in. I hope we can go next year. Maybe we could make it a two night prison sentence. To the guards and warden: thank you and please send the 7th grade next year.
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BEACH CHALLENGE!
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Only 8 days to the Beach Challenge! Please volunteer to help out if you can or at least plan to come and join in all of the festivities! We'll have loads of fun and it's all for a great cause...your health! (.....and sports equipment for local schools of course) Please contact me or Jery Hirsch if you are interested in volunteering.
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Don't Forget Swimming Lessons
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Don't forget that Eric, our PE teacher, offers swimming lessons after school for all ages immediately following after-school activities in in our beautiful swimming pool. Please drop by after school from 3:45 to 5:45 and see Eric if you are interested.
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Summer 'Reef to Rain Forest" Program
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Take a minute and click on the link to our new summer program we are calling "Reef to Rain Forest" or "R2R" for short. It is a two week program that takes students all over Costa Rica learning about the environment and the incredible biodiversity of this great country. It is also a chance to earn a paritial credit for science and Spanish for those participants looking to add to their resumes. Just click on the link at the top of this newsletter and then send me an email to tell me what you think and also if you have ideas about how we can promote this new program. Students from all over are invited to join us. We hope CDSG students and students from around the globe will participate in this exciting new program.
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Monica Riascos' Workshops
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Every week Mrs. Reascos is hosting a different workshop for parents and teachers concerning child development and learning styles and other important issues to help us better understand our childrens' development and how we can be more effective parents and teachers. I invite you all to come and participate in these valuable sessions. We are fortunate to have someone as knowledgeable and talented on our staff. Thank you Monica!
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Upcoming Events
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April (all in the next 2 weeks!)
Soccer Games and Swim Meet Versus CDS Escazu on Saturday!
Earth Day Beach Clean Up April 24th
Coffee House Next Friday Evening April 24th
Beach Challenge Saturday April 25th
Last Poker Night Fundraiser Wednesday April 29
5th Grade Sate/Country Fair Thursday Morning April 30th
Mr. Haun will be away at AASCA Directors' Meeting April 30
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