Bulletin #10 | October 30th, 2018

Main Office

Why is reading important?

Very often, we take reading for granted and somehow assume it is something that happens naturally. Children will, regardless of educational opportunities, normally pick up language and speak as fluently as those with whom they interact on a daily basis. Writing, of course, is something different, and those of us that attended traditional schools many years ago, have clear memories of learning to form letters and write, while grappling with punctuation, grammar and spelling all at once. It may not have been easy for all of us! Reading is totally connected in to all language skills but is also something that we can all support our children to enjoy on a different level. At JFK, we understand that children should start enjoying books as soon as they learn to read. The more children enjoy reading, the more they read. The more they read, the more they will progress in a great many other areas of development: they learn to concentrate, build their imaginations, develop memory skills, and build better capacity to communicate. When parents sit and read with their children they help bond, strengthen the levels of confidence and trust and sense of value that needs to be built between parent and child. Those that had parents that gave time to sit and read, and to share nursery rhymes with them hold those memories close for all their lives. We can easily use reading to enrich the quality of life for our children and family. At JFK we work hard to help build these skills, and look for interesting books to engage our students, and offer programs such as ‘JFK Reads’. This week our students are having the opportunity to share in some new ideas stirring in our library! We have our first ‘Book Days’, instead of our traditional ‘Book Fair’. Taking less instructional time from the classrooms and concentrating on activities that are more specific we hope this dynamic will prove popular and successful. During these days, we will continue with our ‘Grandparents Shared Reading’, and we are adding a Poetry Slam and other activities for all grade levels. We are working hard to develop our library and the collection of books that we have. No doubt, our library is one of the best in any of the local schools, and so we are planning to develop this further. A modern school library should be offering books and other reading materials, access to online resources, and comfortable places to sit and study, or to sit and read for pleasure. They should also develop programs and activities to support teachers in teaching these literary skills. And above all, a modern library should be a place that encourages children to adopt a lifelong love of reading, the very basis of all we do in education. This is our work and our aim, and this year we are making great strides to make all of this possible for all our children! “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”. Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850) Gaby Platas

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Sports

Do you like speed?

If you are 9 years old or more: We invite you to attend the table tennis workshops on the following dates: - Saturday, November 17 - Saturdays 1 and 15 of December The event will be at the JFK auditorium from 10:00 am - 11:30 am. Requirements: sportswear and a lot of energy to participate and have fun. Further information: send an e-mail to Jorge Luis Hernández Mendoza [email protected] 

Jump Rope

Jump Rope has interesting challenges for you in: "single rope, double dutch and long rope skills" Learn and have fun on Saturday November 10 and December 8 from 10:00 am to 11.30 am outside the JFK auditorium.

ASOMEX Tennis Tournament

Congratulations to Mateo Almada for having obtained the third place in the ASOMEX tennis tournament at the CAT (Colegio Americano de Torreón), in the same way to Jesús Santiago Villarreal for his incredible participation.

Parents and Children” Basketball social gathering

Wednesday, October 24. Click here to see photos

Mini tennis workshop

Mini tennis workshop for teachers Friday, October 26 (Technical advice day) Click here to watch video