Did you know that Lower School starts Global Focus next week (2/4/13)? We are focusing on Costa Rica. We stop our usual classes and just dig into Costa Rica . We have cooking classes, people come and talk with us, we study the history, learn about the flag, we play games, and even listen to the music. Since we are the older students we start earlier. We have been learning about Costa Rica since January 3rd. We have learned about National Parks with Linda and Ben, Animals with Nancy, Coffee with Kai and Eliot, and Calypso with Tim. Next week will be a lot of fun but we have liked our study so far. Today, Mika's aunt, Annika, Skyped with us. She is visiting family in Costa Rica. They live in a small town village of San Jose. There are about 500 people that live there. Mika and her family thought it would be fun for the Costa Rican family to talk with us. We "sat" down with the family in Costa Rica and learned a few things: ...