On Tuesday, February 16th, 2010, the children of 2-II presented their China Fair. They worked very hard, practicing each of their parts and preparing their presentation. Among the topics of Chinese culture that 2-II talked about were: Chinese flag, religion, rivers and mountains, important cities, arquitecture, The Great Wall of China, sports, food, Chinese New Year and others. The students also presented a video teaching the audience how to speak a little bit of Mandarin, China's official language, and  another video showing some impressive Kung Fu moves. It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed the presentation.
 

Lights! Camera! Action!
By Ms. Nancy Nuñez

The curtains rise at New Horizons School. Fourth graders took stage and performed their class play “The Day Rosa Parks was Arrested”.

Students in grade 4-I & 4-II were given the opportunity to imagine, explore, create, and share in front of others. They learned about Rosa Parks’s act of courage began turning the wheels of the civil rights movement and the influence she made to change a nation.

 It’s a competitive global economy out there for graduating students.

“The competition is no longer sitting across the aisle or down the road at Davidson. They are sitting in Moscow, Mumbai, Shanghai, Vienna, Sao Paolo and Katmandu,” says Laurent Boetsch, director of the Center for International Students at Washington and Lee University.

Iris Mabel Estrada, graduated in 2008, was selected from among 900 candidates (between the ages of 19 and 25) to speak in the Youth Conference for Sustainability Leadership, to be held in September in Canada.  One hundred eighty students were selected from Canadian Universities and Colleges.