Here we would also like to welcome our new board member Angelina Fraser, mother of DMA students Ruby and Sunny.

On Saturday, November 16, 16 DMA students joined the 1 km Aventura Nosara children�s race to support Nosara's volunteer firefighters. It was a great experience for them. Our youngest competitors were only four years old and completing the race was a big accomplishment for them.  Each one got a medal of participation and was honored for their participation at our school in one of our "acto c�vicos". 

Each year DMA chooses an environmental theme that is woven into almost every aspect of our school. This year the Environmental Committee decided that it was important to choose a theme related to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, due to the opening of the Nosara Recycling and Education Center and the large threat that garbage possess in our community.  The children were presented with three different titles for the theme: "Trash is Treasure", "Re-invent" and "Upcycling". During an acto c�vico children choose by majority the name "Re-invent".  The Lower and Upper Elementary classrooms already have picked up trash at the beach and created  beautiful signs re-inventing a use for that discarded material. Many projects will be done during the year in which students use their imagination to re-invent a world with no trash. 

On Friday October 25, we held the first "Open House" and Parent Education Workshop. The open house is a great opportunity for children to show their work, Montessori materials and classroom to their parents.  During this same day, we held an Education Workshop related to BePeace, a way for building social and emotional intelligence that we are using with DMA students.  Open houses and parent education workshops are an integral part of our school. We hope to see more parents participating in the workshops which are very valuable to help your children thrive!

DMA hold its sixth annual Halloween Party at Paseo del Sol with the participation of many families. This year, parents performed a spectacular dance of the "Thriller" song with the guidance of Ms. Meagan.  Proceeds from food and drink sales from this event benefit the  work of Del Mar Academy's Community Service Committee, which is partnering with the Surfing Nosara Foundation to provide school supplies to local children and schools.  The Halloween party, as always, was a social highlight of the school year!

The Environmental Committee organized a beach cleanup on the Nosara river mouth on Saturday, September 29.  Children and their parents collected more than 15 bags of garbage which were classified into plastics, glass and aluminum. Most of the trash collected was composed of plastics which were taken to the Nosara Recycling and Education Center. This clean-up activity was part of the International Coastal Clean-up day.  A data collection sheet was sent to the organizers, who publish the world wide results of this campaign.

On September 24th, "Jacinto Basurilla" visited Del Mar.  "Jacinto" is the main character of a national campaign sponsored by the Costa Rica tourism chamber which teaches children the importance of having a clean country and working proactively towards preserving our natural environment.  Jacinto Basurilla also visited the other Blue Flag Schools in Nosara.