Dic. 2012 : Video Conferencia entre estudiantes de USA y Argentina / Dec 2012 : Video Chat between USA and Argentina students

Celebracion por el dia del Maestro 2012 - Teachers day celebration 2012

!!! Saludos desde Argentina !! Sep-2012 - !! Greetings from Argentina !!!

 

Invierno en Ceferino Namuncura-Argentina - Winter in Ceferino Namuncura

Dia de Accion de Gracias

3ro y 4to grados- HDLA Hollister,Ca

Hoy aprendimos como hacer un blog.
Primero fuimos a su blog. Leimos sobre lo que escribiste.
La maestra nos enseño como escribir en el blog.

 Luego, aprendimos como usar una camara especial que
se llama " i flip ". Tambien aprendimos como conectar la
camara a la computadora.

Finalmente, nosotros aprendimos sobre como escribir un
blog. Por ejemplo respondimos a sus fotos o videos.
Luego te vamos a decir que esta pasando en nuestra
escuela.

Tia Teresa de Ceferino

Tia Teresa de Ceferino.

!!  WELCOME TO THE 2012-2013 SCHOOL YEAR !!

We are really happy to continue with the sister school project and this new blog and we want to invite everybody to join us in this site to share ideas and comments.

Soon, we'll be posting more news

!!  BIENVENIDOS AL AÑO ESCOLAR 2012-2013 !! 

Nosotros estamos realmente felices de continuar con el proyecto de escuelas hermanas y este nuevo blog, y queremos invitar a todos a unirse a este sitio para compartir ideas y comentarios.

Pronto estaremos añadiendo mas noticias

Sister School Project donates digital camera

With support from the Pinnacles Partnership, the Escuela Ceferino Namuncurá in Argentina now has a digital camera for the school! This donation comes from funds for the Sister School project, a project born out of the Sister Park agreement between Pinnacles National Monument and Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito. The camera will allow students at Ceferino Namuncurá to send photos and video to students in their sister school.Students and teachers were thrilled to receive the camera and they all send their heartfelt thanks to those involved with the donation. They immediately began using the camera to take photos of the students which will be included in a video they are making for the Hollister Dual Language Academy. See some of the students photos and a short video message from a Ceferino Namuncurá student below.

Video Chat and Visit to Ceferino Namuncura

This is a past post copied from the Sister Park Condor Preservation blog http://www.condoresargentinos.blogspot.com/ . It details the video chat between the sister schools and my experience visiting the Escuela Ceferino Namuncura.

Notes from the field: Sara Reid

On Thursday, November 17^th students from the Escuela Ceferino Namuncurá in Argentina and the Hollister Dual Language Academy (HDLA) in California virtually crossed borders and learned more about each other during the first video chat between the sister schools. The video chat involved students and teachers in all grades from both schools, plus some family members of HDLA students. Staff members from the sister parks helped organize the event; Veronica Johnson and Kimberley Sawyer participated at HDLA, and Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito park ranger Mariano Passano and myself were present at Ceferino Namuncurá.

The children asked questions that ranged from what sports they play, to what they learn in school, to what animals live in their area. Questions and answers about food required some explanation, since students in Argentina have never seen a taco, and students at HDLA don’t know that locro is a traditional squash soup. A question about extracurricular activities resulted in a girl from Ceferino Namuncurá displaying the weaving she was working on, and a boy describing the crafts and tools they make with leather. The students realized they have many things in common, such as sports and the subjects they study in school. They also were fascinated by their differences, such as the fact that students at Ceferino Namuncurá all have horses, and most students at HDLA arrive to school by car. Students in both schools enjoyed the exchange and were thrilled to talk with children across the world in their sister school.

After an hour and twenty minutes the students signed off but I remained at the sister school to continue the exchange and learn more about the realities of the students. The school is located just outside the national park in a regional hydrologic preserve. The nearest town is three hours away on a dirt and rock road. The school is surrounded by protected pampa, or grassland ecosystems, with small and dispersed homesteads dotting the landscape. Many of the students live in these nearby ranches where their families have lived for generations, making their living by raising sheep and cattle. In fact it was local parents who built the school in 1967 so their children could receive an education and remain in the countryside. Today the Escuela Ceferino Namuncurá not only provides a high quality education to students in what appears to be the middle of nowhere, it also supports the traditional livelihoods of rural highland families.

The school is difficult to get to and most families do not own vehicles, so the students at Ceferino Namuncurá live for three weeks at the school and return to their homes for about a week. Both studying and living in the school, everybody works as a team, much like a family. Teachers and children eat their meal together, and chores such as cleaning up after the meal are shared. After class, students and teachers gather in the ‘living room’ to do homework, watch television, and work on arts and crafts. At bedtime the older students help the younger ones get ready for bed, and the teachers sleep in the same dormitory rooms as the students. On the weekends, after the students and teachers clean the school together, they go out for hikes, or visit their elderly neighbor who greets them with fresh baked bread. The students are all like brothers and sisters, and the teachers fill the roles of parents, nurses, friends and role models, twenty four hours a day.

The fact that the students, and teachers, live together makes for a school situation different than any I’ve ever experienced. At the end of my two days at the Escuela Ceferino Namuncurá, I felt like part of the family. The students were open, loving, and proud to share their school with me. Leaving the school I was sad to say goodbye, but inspired by all that we have to learn from each other. I look forward to continued sister school exchanges that will be unique opportunities to enrich the lives of all of the students, teachers, national park staff, and community members involved.

School Break!--Vacaciones Escolares!

Both HDLA and the Ceferino Namuncurá school are on school break as of the first week in June until the end of August. In Hollister students are enjoying the hot weather and long days of summer, and in the Pampa de Achala students are keeping warm and drinking warm mate during the coldest months of winter.

What are your plans for school break?

La Academia en Dos Idiomas de Hollister y la Escuela Ceferino Namuncurá están en vacaciones escolares desde la primera semana en junio hasta el término de agosto. En Hollister los estudiantes están disfrutando los días largos y calientes del verano, y en la Pampa de Achala los estudiantes están manteniendose abrigados y tomando mate caliente con su familia durante los meses más frios del invierno.

Que planes tienen para las vacaciones escolares?

Summer in Hollister--Verano en Hollister

Winter in the Pampa de Achala--Invierno en la Pampa de Achala

HDLA 3rd graders thank Escuela Ceferino Namuncurá for their video/ Estudiantes del tercer grado de HDLA le da gracias a la escuela Ceferino Namuncurá por su video

¡Gracias por el video!

Thank you for the video!

Video from the Ceferino Namuncurá School/Video de la escuela Ceferino Namuncurá

The Ceferino Namuncurá School created this video for the Hollister Dual Language Academy as an introduction to their school, the students and teachers, and the environment and culture they live in.

La Escuela Ceferino Namuncurá hizó  este video para la Academia en Dos Idiomas de Hollister para presentar su escuela, los estudiantes y maestros, y el ambiente y cultura donde viven.

Sister School Project/Proyecto de Escuelas Hermanas