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Los mejores días en la escuela (The Best Days in School)

May 4, 2009
Category: Child Aid News
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Elba reading to a group of young students

Esta pequeña historia está relacionada con el programa de animación a la lectura. La maestra Magali Castillo es la madre de alumna Andrea Hernández Castillo de 11 años de edad y quien estudia en la escuela cantonal de El Tejar, Chimaltenango, cursando el quinto grado. Hace algunos días tuve la oportunidad de platicar con ella en el colegio Melotto, pues ahí trabaja. Me contó que su hija llegó a su casa muy contenta y animada, comentándole que sus mejores días en la escuela son los días que reciben lectura por parte de la biblioteca ya que es muy divertido como les leen y que disfrutan mucho. Unos de sus comentarios fue: “Así si me gusta leer, ¡no quiero faltar por que no quiero perderme ni un cuento!”

Elba es la bibliotecaria de niños en la Escuela Pedro Molina en Guatemala. A cientos de niños cada semana, ella les lleva la pasión de lectura con las programas de Child Aid in animación.

(This brief story is about Child Aid’s active reading program. The teacher Magali Castillo is the mother of the 11-year-old student, Andrea Hernández Castillo. Who attends fifth grade at the school in El Tejar, Chimaltenango. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with [Ms. Castillo] at the Melotto school where she works. She told me that her daughter arrived home very happy and animated. She was saying that her best days in school were the days that they were read to in the library. That the way they read was very fun and that they enjoyed it immensely. One of things she said was, “I like reading so much that I don’t want to miss a single day because I don’t want to miss even one story!”

Elba is the librarian at Pedro Molina school’s children’s library in Guatemala. She brings the passion of reading to hundreds of children every week through Child Aid’s active reading programs.)

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