Amigo News

This week we celebrated Children's Day with fun games and some cupcakes that a mother gave us. We also received the donation of handmade goals for our ball playing area ! They were made from bamboo by Amigos de la Cruz supporter Bryan Montgomery. In addition, the children made clay figures with the little [...]

The children had a woodworking and carpentry class with volunteers Lisa, Diel, Catherine and Jamie. They are working on making hat/coat racks that they can use or give for gifts. They are really enjoying the jump roping activities with Lilly practicing different routines and "double dutch". Jump Rope experts Heather and Ty came in [...]

Our Art teacher Alejandra was away for a few days this week taking a ceramics workshop to learn some new techniques and skills to share with the children. It was a great opportunity to expand our activities for the kids and enjoy some fun with Allegra who covered for her while out. Lilly is [...]

This week was full of science activities for the children at the Kids Club. The solar eclipse on Monday was a perfect opportunity for activities related to the eclipse and astronomy. The students learned about the sun and the moon and their respective orbits that are responsible for the eclipse, they created diagrams and [...]

We had the inauguration of our Photography exhibition this week. We had a group of students learning Mariachi to play and there was a nice turnout of people to enjoy the collection that is on loan from the Anthropology and History Museum in Tepic. The exhibit is open to the public Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday [...]