Houses vs Homes

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Houses has windows, bedrooms and doors,

a home has food, love and much more.

A house has a kitchen, a balcony and a garage,

a home has a family who keeps it warm.

The house has walls, lights and closets

but a home has a father, children and a mother.

Maybe a grandpa,  a grandma or an uncle

but the house could be empty with no one to mumble.

to keep it cozy,  to respect and to play

to care for one another, to hug and to share.

To fulfill empty spaces with loving care

to communicate, to dream and have God there!

                                                                                                            Ms. Milagros Villanueva

S.U. José A. Vargas School

Isabela, Puerto Rico

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Luis Muñoz Marín Biography

http://www.biography.com/people/luis-mu%C3%B1oz-mar%C3%ADn-40337


 When the United States granted Puerto Rico the right to elect its own governor (1948), Muoz Marín was overwhelmingly elected and then reelected in 1952, 1956, and 1960.

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/m/munoz_marin.htm

Homework: President's Day

Info. about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_Birthday


http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/monografia/washington/



http://www.answers.com/topic/abraham-lincoln

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/l/lincoln.htm



Happy Birthday Nicole!

 Nicole Figueroa Perez - 8 years old

Hoping that your day will be as special as you are!

Family Values Interviews - Oral Presentation Winners

First Place:                                    Sannette Aldarondo

Second Place:                                Taylimarie

Third Place:                                  Amanda Laguer

Fourth Place:                               Orlando J. Rivera

Fifth Place:                                  Andrea B. Rosas

Sixth Place:                                 Paola N. Mercado

According to their interviews the most important values for their families were love and respect.

The values that were missing these days were respect for life, respect for the elder people and lack of  the prescence of God in the family. The family members agree that we have to go back to the tradional values taught by our ancestors. I must say that we should start living values with our own families because like Father Elias used to say; " if we save the family we save the world"

Children missing moral values at home, teachers say

Discipline in schools is worsening as children are no longer learning moral values at home, a teachers' leader said.

The focus on the primacy of the individual, rather than community; the changing pattern of family structures; the shortening of the length of many relationships; the creation of many more step families; the emphasis on parents going out to work and the consequent perception of the reduced value and worth of the full-time parent have all changed the way they behave."

The traditional sense of community, and parents taking responsibility for their children has gone, and it is now showing in the behaviour of children in schools.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2473208/Children-missing-moral-values-at-home-teachers-say.html