MY FIRST DAY
OF CLASSES
A week before
classes officially began, the staff and teachers at Centro San José undertook
many activities. They relocated classrooms, arranged furniture, painted,
retouched doors, cleaned the walls and floors and afterward decorated the
preschool grounds. All was done with the purpose of offering a warm welcome to
the children of Jardines San Juan (in the outskirts of Mexico City) when they
arrived for their first day of class. We began the new school year 2015-2016 at
the Centro Comunitario de Desarrollo
Infantil San José bursting with happiness. For we know that each day we
work on building values to form boys and girls to better the prospects of their
future.
Our program focuses
on serving young families, especially those newly arrived in the poor, urban
district where we have the center. Many of these families have little
experience with formal education and the expectations placed on the children
and the parents. The center’s goals include basic preschool education,
in-school meals and nutrition information for the families and much love and
attention to develop, in the children and also their families, the behavioral
skills needed for success in school.