American School of Guatemala

Just a quick reminder that SPADD will be on campus January 18-20 in the MS cafeteria selling and taking orders for the CAG PE uniform and Sports Team uniforms. Please feel free to stop by between 8:00am and 4:00pm to pick up what you need.

Reminder: Students who do not have their team uniform will not be allowed to participate in friendly school games or formal tournaments.

Un pequeño recordatorio que la empresa SPAAD estará en el campus la semana del 18 al 20 de enero en la Cafetería de Intermedia, para vender y tomar pedidos de uniformes de Educación Física y Selecciones Deportivas. Con confianza acérquense en horario de de 8:00 a 16:00 hrs, para comprar lo que necesite.

Recordatorio: Ningún alumno podrá participar en juegos amistosos y torneos si no cuenta con el uniforme de la selección respectiva.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (8:30-10:30): Escuela Para Padres presents: Substance Abuse in Adolescence
Mark your 2010 calendar for the first Parent Workshops of the New Year.

Lic. Michelle Contreras (from Boston Clinical Consulting, a clinical psychology Fellow Harvard Medical School, and actually works with Family Network Services in Massachusetts) will be speaking about the growing problem of substance abuse in adolescence as a means to escape problems, pressure create by various tensions and stress around them. Lic. Contreras will also discuss ways parents can help their kids deal with these pressures.
Come out and join us for the second EPP workshop!

The baratillo is less than a month away (Saturday, Nov. 7), and we are ready to receive your stuff! Donation drop offs are located at: pasarela, puerta norte, or section offices.

What is Baratillo?
Baratillo is a community service learning project, coordinated through our Middle School students, CAG teacher volunteers, and the APM with the purpose of raising funds to help our internal community.

All the donations are sold on a Saturday morning that turns into a fun packed garage sale or “gym sale” in our case, where CAG workers can come to buy toys, clothes, house wares, anything you can imagine at almost give away prices. The MS students then use the money raised to make aprx. 200 gift baskets to give to maintenance staff, monitors, bus drivers, office support staff and external support staff during an appreciation assembly in December.

What’s new this year?
This year, we will also collect computers and computer accessories as a means of supporting an incredible recycling program called “Tecnologia para Educar” through the FUNSEPA Foundation. This organization refurbishes old keyboards, CPUs, monitors, etc. and distributes them to rural schools throughout Guatemala. They also, in turn, train teachers and students in the use of computers. CAG is proud to join the support of Microsoft, SIT Guatemala, the Ministry of Education, The Pacific Institute, and the Canadian Embassy in order to improve learning opportunities for Guatemalan students and teachers through technology. During the course of the year, you will receive more information about this program and how the CAG community is making a difference.

What’s Elementary doing?
If your child is in Elementary, please label the donation bag with the grade and section of your child. Elementary is having a friendly competition to see which grade can accumulate the most donations.

Thanks ahead of time for your support as always and if you would like to help with baratillo, communicate with the MS office at msoffice@cag.edu.gt

Congratulations to our Boys Team who placed 5th in the AASCA tournament and the Girls Team who walked away with 3rd place. The CAG community applaudes your effort and sportsmanship.

A los equipos de Baloncesto masculino y femenino quienes el día sábado se coronaron Campeonas y Campeones de la Copa Bi-Cultural. Los juegos estuvieron muy emocionantes donde por poco a los que disfrutamos de los encuentros se nos sale el corazón, habiendo ganado por diferencia de un punto el equipo masculino y dos puntos de ventaja el equipo femenino. Esto demuestra que nuestros equipos están preparados para realizar un buen trabajo y una buena representación de nuestro colegio en Nicaragua, donde se estará llevando a cabo El torneo de Baloncesto AASCA 2009 del 7 al 11 de octubre.

El Colegio Americano está muy orgulloso de contar con deportistas de este nivel y desea suerte y buen viaje para los ganadores.

“ Romeo y Julieta es una de las obras de mayor popularidad jamás escritas, nos proponemos a presentarla con su poesía y romance intactos, ofreciendo un drama poderoso y estilizado.”…Paul Stebbing y TNT Britain La más famosa obra de Shakespeare, Romeo y Julieta, está programada para jueves, 24 de septiembre para el público a las 19:00 horas en el auditorio MacVean. Parqueo disponible frenter al colegio. El precio de la entrada es Q100 y va estar a la venta comenzando el viernes, 18 de septiembre en la caja de CAG.

Dear CAG Community,
Welcome to the 2009-10 school year and to the first edition of the CAG E-News 2009-10! CAG E-News brings you updates and short articles about what is taking place at CAG so you are better informed. Each edition will be stored on the CAG website under publications for you to access at your convenience.

Please click on the link http://www.cag.edu.gt/enews to check out what's in the news.

If you have any questions during the year or if you would like to contribute to this publication, feel free to contact Kimberly de Pivaral, Public Relations Coordinator, at kpivaral@cag.edu.gt

All of our staff has worked hard over the past few days to make your 2009-10 school year unforgettable full of fun and learning.

Please check our website for the parent calendar for this year and other updates during the year.