Sister Schools
CURRENT PROJECTS
Students in the United States gain a better understanding of global issues by engaging in activities such as cross-age tutoring, making supplies and collecting funds to help their foreign sister school. This stimulates them to believe in their capacity for great deeds while experiencing the joy of making a difference in the world.
Sister schools have created learning games, instructional aids for teachers, books on subjects of interest, and units of instruction.
Classes or schools conduct book and school supply drives.
Few things are as life changing as travel to a developing country. Students and their parents who visit Namlo schools develop a lifelong appreciation for the power of people to people encounters. They see that taking the time to work with a neighbor makes a big difference in everyone's life. What better way to see that impact than to deliver, in person, books and materials that they have worked on and collected.
School groups of all ages can set a goal of preparing for a visit to one of the Namlo schools -- raising funds for travel, and spending the year before travel learning more about the country they will visit. Contact us for dates and costs for travel to Nepal or Nicaragua.
How you can help with these programs:
Volunteer: We continue to seek student-made learning materials. These can be personalized to meet specific requests from teachers in our foreign schools. Contact us for information about current needs.
Donate: Contact us for a list of projects needing support.We especially need Spanish language elementary texts, grades 1-5 from Editorial Santillana--Serie 2000. Non-fiction titles (science, biography, history) in Spanish are also a request from teachers in our overseas schools. For other current needs, call us and/or see the School Improvement link on this website.
Volunteer: School groups of all ages can set a goal of preparing for a visit to one of the Namlo schools -- raising funds for travel, and spending the year before travel learning more about the country they will visit. Contact us for dates and costs for travel to Nepal or Nicaragua.
COMPLETED/ONGOING PROJECTS
Recent Sister School Partners
Recent schools that have been sister school partners include Logan School, Stober Elementary, Kyffin Elementary, and the Denver Center for International Studies, a Denver magnet school.
Students at Logan recently crafted an outstanding unit of study, in which each child retold a story from another culture. The stories were recorded on tape, so that their sister school partners could hear and read spoken English. Their stories were put in a laminated book, along with student pictures and copies of lessons the teacher used during the unit.
Stober and Kyffin Elementary both conducted drives for school supplies. Stober also collected books and prepared learning games in math and Spanish.
Students in a beginning Spanish class a the Denver Center for International Studies each wrote a short, illustrated book for primary students designed to teach children sight words in Spanish. Book topics included foods, colors, numbers, and members of the family. One student wrote a clever book about all the different kinds of hats -- short and tall, large and small, old and new, and so on.
Their contributions have been (or will be) delivered to sister schools during Namlo visits to Nepal and Nicaragua.
Fifth graders sign a letter to their sister school in Nicaragua, amidst some of the learning aids they collected through donations.
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