Learning at the LRC Issue 1: September 2011

Welcome Back

The Animation Club in 2011

Welcome back to another The ABC Animation Club (AC) has exciting school year. The LRC successfully started the semester has great plans for the months with twice as many students as ahead, full of special projects, last year. Most of last years AC global links and plenty of new students have returned to tools and equipment to make continue to being a part of this the magic happen. We look exciting art initiative in the LRC. forward to sharing our This year we are teaching 2 successes with you in the LRC sessions a week, on Tuesdays and newsletter, which will be Thursdays; and have started anew released at the end of each with the most basic assignments. month during the school year. This allows the students to We would also like to invite A Message from Yensi: experiment and understand the you to follow our Twitter, principles of the illusion of We have now received 120 new Facebook streams and read movement, which is animation. Spanish and English language ourCURRENTLYas familiarise Blog, as well AT THE We have also started more books, which are ready to be yourselves with our newly LRC difficult projects, like the creation borrowed by students. Please revamped LRC Website. Please of a cut-out puppet, for the more check out the new book on our feel free to contact me with Theatre Week: advanced students, who wish to digital bookshelf for new any questions or comments Puppet Project move further ahead with more arrivals. We are awaiting the challenging projects. arrival even more books in the Additionally, the AC has joined forces with the Humanities Please follow us on: Dept. Rachael Taylor and Amy Nott have joined the Thursday Twitter group to help encourage, manage Flickr and direct the animation lessons, Facebook which include topics taken from LRC Website the Humanities curriculum. ABCICT lesson, but rather a fun and LRC ABC YouTube Channel different way in which to incorporate some of the ABC-LRC Blog curriculums knowledge into our own animation projects. Once you take into account the Its not an additional humanities attendance, the many topics to choose from and the

Banned Books Week

A Message from Hilda: En el LRC estuvimos celebrando los 190 Aniversario de Independencia de El Salvador. Haciendo un recorrido con los alumnos por todo el LRC donde estaban las diferentes actividades como: La comida tpica, trajes tpicos, pinturas, cultivos, juego infantiles, adems aprendieron sobre la historia de El Salvador y lo hermoso que es el pas. Los alumnos se divertieron especialmente con los juego infatiles jugando capirucho,