Community Schools

Publish Date: 12/15/2008
Winter games
Economy got you down? Can’t go anywhere for winter break? Worried what the kids will do when they’re not in school? Here are some free or low-cost activities for your kids — and for you.
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Publish Date: 12/15/2008
Schools part 2

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Publish Date: 12/8/2008
They’re all teachers
LONGMONT — Jim Berthold had trouble communicating with Spanish-speaking students. He also was rusty on keyboarding. Since then, Berthold, 62 — one of two lead drivers for the St. Vrain Valley School District — has taken Spanish I and II, and he will continue in Spanish III in January. He also completed a keyboard course and attended a course for bus drivers to share ideas on such topics as maintaining discipline on the bus and greeting students with a friendly face.
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Publish Date: 12/1/2008
Authors without rules
ERIE — Directions posted on Nano Wrimo’s Young Writers Program Web site tell students to “lock that inner editor in the basement.” Throughout November, 77 eighth-graders at Erie Middle School took the advice to heart and typed like mad to write a 10,000-plus word novel.
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Publish Date: 11/24/2008
Day of ‘gracias’
FREDERICK — Turkey is not nearly as common on dinner tables in Mexico and South America as it is in the United States. That’s why Frederick Elementary School teacher Ana Salcedo, when her bilingual kindergarten students sat down for a Thanksgiving meal Friday, served “turkey” that was really chicken.
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Publish Date: 11/17/2008
Honoring SACRIFICES
LONGMONT— A sixth-grade girl who journals in a hot-pink diary secured with a shiny clasp and lock shares little life experience with military personnel now home from cockpits, foxholes and ship decks.
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