Rock Around the Clock

Today at JumpStart Limón, our students learned how to ask for and tell the time in English and how to talk about daily routines.  Teacher Nate called out times of the day while the students drew the minute and hour hands on their whiteboard clocks.

"It's three o'clock."

Students show their work on whiteboard clocks.

Teacher Nate demonstrates the correct time.

Later on, we read the daily routine of Chubby Charlie. Afterwards, each student received one or two lines of the story, and they had to work together as a class to put the story in chronological order.  We also played their favorite game to review clothing, colors, and physical characteristics. 

A view from the teachers' desk.

A Great First Two Weeks

Greetings from Limón Centro!

Learning family members

We are happy to say that our first two weeks of the JumpStart English camp have gone extremely well. Our twenty students are enthusiastic and excited about learning English, and they all seem to greatly appreciate the opportunity to participate in this free, intensive English course. We have had outstanding attendance, which is impressive since the students are in their final weeks of summer vacation before heading to their first year of high school.

Simon Says, "Touch your head."

Since the very first day of the camp, we have seen the kids speaking more English than we ever had seen them speaking in their classrooms. Over the past two weeks they have been steadily improving their pronunciation and learning more and more English. Of course, no one can learn a foreign language in four weeks, but we hope that JumpStart will set a foundation of knowledge and will give these students more confidence in their English-learning capabilities in the future.

Last Thursday we were lucky to have two visitors from our friends at the US Embassy, who generously contributed to JumpStart Limón. They took photographs and video, and even participated in our fashion show!

"I am wearing a white t-shirt!"

Playing the People to People Game

Coming Soon / Próximamente

This coming January and February, here you’ll find regular updates on JumpStart Limón from Nate and Johanna, the Peace Corps Volunteers (USA) in charge. In the meantime, feel free to open the Google map to the left to see where JumpStart Limón will take place and learn a few other details on the camp. Additionally, we ask that you please consider donating to CRML to help us raise the remaining funds we need to make the JumpStart camps being prepared for Limón and 13 other communities across Costa Rica a reality for the roughly 300 students who have signed up to participate. For information on how to help, see the column to the right. Even a small contribution makes a big difference!      

Este próximo enero y febrero, usted podrá encontrar en esta página las últimas noticias sobre JumpStart Limón de Nate y Johanna, los voluntarios del Cuerpo de Paz (EE.UU.) a cargo. Mientras tanto, lo invitamos a abrir el mapa de la izquierda para ver dónde tendrá lugar JumpStart Limón y aprender algunos otros detalles del campamento. Adicionalmente, solicitamos que por favor considere una donación a CRML para ayudarnos a recaudar los fondos que todavía necesitamos para hacer los campamentos en Limón y otras 13 comunidades alrededor de Costa Rica una realidad para los 300 niños que se han inscrito a participar. Para información sobre cómo ayudar, vea la columna de la derecha. Una contribución pequeña hace una gran diferencia.