The San José Community Center for Child Development offers comprehensive care to preschool children in “Jardines de San Juan Ajusco”, Mexico City, a neighborhood affected by social marginalization, poverty and general lack of resources and opportunities.
For our program of activities during the month of June, we included the theme of "The Family" to work with children, since previously, in the month of April, we celebrated Children's Day, in May Mother's Day and in June we celebrated father’s day: this is how we were able to unite these celebrations in a joint party.
In the classrooms we work with the children on the theme of the family throughout the month through different activities such as drawings and stories about the family: who makes up a family—dad, mom, siblings, grandparents, uncles, cousins, etc., and create the awareness about the fundamental role of families for them from early childhood.
They also made crafts, which the children gave to their parents as a gift.
From such an early age, children are very clear about what family is, they identify with their relatives as people who love them, care for them, understand them and care about them.
On June 17, we celebrated Family Day at the San José center, and we had a get-together with the children accompanied by their family members. The educators prepared dances in groups with the children who presented for their families. This event was the first that we were able to hold with everyone since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago, and all the relatives who participated left very happy to have enjoyed and followed the children’s dance.
For our program of activities during the month of June, we included the theme of "The Family" to work with children, since previously, in the month of April, we celebrated Children's Day, in May Mother's Day and in June we celebrated father’s day: this is how we were able to unite these celebrations in a joint party.
In the classrooms we work with the children on the theme of the family throughout the month through different activities such as drawings and stories about the family: who makes up a family—dad, mom, siblings, grandparents, uncles, cousins, etc., and create the awareness about the fundamental role of families for them from early childhood.
They also made crafts, which the children gave to their parents as a gift.
From such an early age, children are very clear about what family is, they identify with their relatives as people who love them, care for them, understand them and care about them.
On June 17, we celebrated Family Day at the San José center, and we had a get-together with the children accompanied by their family members. The educators prepared dances in groups with the children who presented for their families. This event was the first that we were able to hold with everyone since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago, and all the relatives who participated left very happy to have enjoyed and followed the children’s dance.
