Cabot Primary Teachers Awarded A "Fund for Teacher's" Grant to Study Math and Literacy in New Zealand

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Lynn Talamini and Donna Stone received a $10,000 grant through the American Fund For Teachers to travel to New Zealand this summer and study math, literacy, and culture. New Zealand leads the world in literacy rates. Donna and Lynn have both used math and literacy programs developed in New Zealand in their classroom and will see these programs in action through school visits and meetings with New Zealand educators.

Ella's Blog from Ladakh

My home for the past month has been in a place far from Vermont, the Himalayas. Although the contrast of the East to the West is evident almost every moment here, I find myself slowly growing accustomed to the differences to my life back in Cabot. I am comforted by the vastness of the mountains that surround me, scraping the sky, soaring higher and higher, their peaks are out of sight. I love the feeling that I get as I stand next to these monsters of land. I am so miniscule as I stand at the base of these mountains, yet I am so enormous, so valiant standing at the top.

We returned back to SECMOL last week from our five-day trek and homestay. Staying with a Ladakhi family, in a Ladakhi household completely exposed me to a whole new side to where we are. The means of simplicity that these people live by is, to me, incredible. We hiked to villages that didn’t have roads leading to them. In areas this remote, yaks became the means of transportation. I remember staying in one household where our five-year old brother would help with chores around the house. He carried stacks of dried dung, and wood toward the room we were staying in so we could stay warm next to the stove throughout the night. Later in the evening, after dinner, we all danced to the scratchy tapes of Ladakhi pop songs that played off of the radio sitting by the bucket of water, used for washing. The Ladakhis are by far the hardest working, and most compassionate people that I have ever met. Their energy and resilience to us indolent Americans still seems amazing.

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I LOVE TLC

by multiage 1&2 authors

	TLC by Taylor © January 2008      TLC is my favorite subject.  It is fun.  Here are some of the peoples’ names in TLC:  Me, Brooke, Tyler, Rowan, Wyatt, and Wesley.       I do yoga.  We do stretching.  It is fun.  So far there are only girls.  There is a pose called Eagle. And I know lots of other ones, but I don’t want to name all of the names.      We do recess in TLC.  I play with the balls.  There are three balls in TLC.       We have snack.       This year Mrs. Lee Penniman works at TLC and Raquel helps out.  And Charlene helps too.
	I LOVE TLC. by Brooke © 11/29/07 In TLC you can have fun. I think you should go to TLC. I love it. TLC is an after school program. We go out side 1st. Then we go in side 2nd. Then we eat snack 3rd. Then we do homework 4th. Then we do a project 5th. Then I go home at 5:00. Brittany and I play until we go to bed. My bedtime is 9:00. We have TLC 3 times a week : Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. Deb goes walking with uson Wednesday. We have fun. I love to walk. So does Brittany. Deb is funny and fun and cool. We dress up on Thursday. We have fun.
	TLC by Gabriella TLC is cool. TLC is awesome. TLC is like a babysitter’s place but it is more fun. We have a  second recess. We have snack at TLC. We have gold fish and juice. We went walking with Deb we used walking sticks. We walked 1 mile. When we walked we heard ponies. I love TLC because we have fun. And we make crafts. But what we do the most is have fun.

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