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 Jefferson/Lewis
Tutor and Student Recognition and Awards Luncheon
Saturday, Nov. 15, Watertown
11:30 - 1:00
Cafeteria, Mc Vean Center, JCC
Join LNNY as we salute our fantastic tutors and students!
RSVP: 782-4270
New!
Very
Basic Computer course
Watertown
Designed for adults who need to develop basic
computer skills for the workplace and personal use
Limited to adults who need help with literacy/reading issues
12 hours
2 classes per week
2 hours per class
Mondays and Wednesdays
2- 4 p.m.
First session starts: Nov. 3
Call to register: 782-4270
Limited space!
St.
Lawrence annual Scrabble event
Sunday, November 16
2 p.m.
Kellas Hall, SUNY Potsdam
Same location as last year
Call 265-0194 or email
lvastlaw@hotmail for information or to register.
Lewis
County Tutor In service
Wed., Oct. 29, Lewis County office of LNNY
10 - 12:30
Parts 1 & 2
The first part repeats the In service held in Jefferson County in July.
The second part is "Using telephone scripts as a teaching tool with ESOL
students".
Please call 376-8188 or 782-4270 to register.
Jefferson
County Tutor In service
Using Telephone
scripts as a teaching tool
Thursday, October 30, 5 - 6 p.m.
Watertown
English
Classes, Fall Session
ESOL classes
in Watertown, Tuesdays 4 - 6
pm, or, Thursdays, 9:30 - 11:30 am
Speaking skills, pronunciation, conversational activities, grammar,
writing
For information or to register call:
782-4270
Evening
of Giving
Special discounts, prizes, entertainment
Sunday, Nov. 16, 6-9 pm, Salmon Run Mall
LNNY benefits
from proceeds of tickets it sells.
Call the office to get tickets.
Link to information
LNNY
Calendar of Events
Click on the board to see our calendar
United Way Gift Basket Drawing
United Way of NNY asked local agencies to participate
by preparing a gift basket. Watertown Savings Bank won the basket
from LNNY.
John Morgia of Watertown Savings Bank accepts the gift basket that LNNY
prepared.
Email Registration for
Tutor Training:
If you would like to register by email for for any of our tutor
trainings, please send us an email and specify which course.
Tutor Training
Registration
Upcoming
Tutor Trainings:
Lewis
County Basic Reading Tutor Training:
Starts October 6, 5
weeks, 9-11 am in Lowville, Mondays
Call 376-8188 or 782-4270 for information.
Jefferson
ESOL Tutor Training:
4 weeks, 3 hours per
session
Wednesdays
9 - 12 noon
November 5,12,19,26
Watertown location
To register, please call 782-4270
Jefferson
Basic Reading Tutor Training:
Starts September 8, 5 weeks, 5:30 to 7:30 pm,
Mondays
Call 782-4270 for information.
St.
Lawrence County combined Basic Reading/ESOL Tutor Training:
Starts September 22, 8 weeks, 9:30
- 11:30 AM
Location: Potsdam Community Meeting Room, above the Police Station and
Rescue Squad garages
Information and registration: Leave message at the Potsdam library; call
265-0194;
email
lvastlaw@hotmail.com
Jefferson
ESOL Tutor Training:
Sign up for the
next class,
date to be determined call 782-4270 or 376-8188 for information
Lewis
ESOL Tutor Training:
Call to sign up
for the next session, to be determined
Information: 376-8188 or 782-4270
Tutoring
Tutors are available in all 3
counties to serve the needs of Basic Reading and ESOL students. If you
know anyone who could benefit from our services, please call: 782-4270,
376-8188, or 265-0194.
US Citizenship Preparation classes
For information call: 782-4270
Ongoing classes
READ
Parents' Group
Reading Experts and Advocates for
Dyslexia
Email for information about
the next meeting.
Information:
ucanread@yahoo.com
Recent
Events
Jefferson County
Tutor In-service, May 2008:
Tutors from Lewis and
Jefferson Counties attended. Topics included were: Using Software
as a Teaching Tool, What Should We be Teaching ESOL Students, What Makes
a Good Match with a Student, and Using Hands-on Math to Engage the Adult
Learner, and "Social Networking". Many shared ideas about their tutoring
experiences. Thank you to those who brought refreshments.
ESOL Tutor Training, St. Lawrence
County, May 2008:
ESOL Tutor Training, Jefferson
County, April 2008:
Four new tutors completed the training and are
certified and ready to meet with their new students. Jefferson County
welcomes Doreen Fairchild, Sue Kenyon, Sue Witmer, and Chandra Epting.
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Chandra Epting, Sue Kenyon, Sue Witmer, Norah Sotomayer, Jane Reidhard, and Doreen Fairchild
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ESOL Tutor Training, Lewis County:
Lewis County, LNNY, welcomes new ESOL tutors, Maria
and Miguel Gonzalez. Maria is already busy with 4 new students.
April 27th, Jefferson County
Literacy of Northern NY
held its annual Scrabble fundraiser on April 27th at Jefferson Community
College. Once again, several adult and youth teams participated with
each team member receiving a door prize.
Many thanks to the following businesses and individuals for generous
prize and refreshment donations:
Walmart, Kinney Drugs, P&C, Hannaford Grocery Store, the Golub
Foundation, Borders, KB Toys, Gertrude Hawk Chocolates.
Also, many thanks to businesses and individuals who donated fees for
youth teams.
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Winning Youth Team, 2008 - Sarah Maphey, Liam Zaphora, Brittany Vaccaro, Joelee Tooley-Pilon (top left to bottom right)
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2008 Winning Adult Team - Linda Blake and Carolyn Leeson (left to right)
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WPBS
Auction All-Star Auction, April 19-27th
Tutor, Kay Lou, decorated
the toy box and LNNY donated books and games. The book chest was auctioned off at the All-Star Auction.
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Tutor, Kay Lou, decorated the toy box in a "Dora the Exlplorer" theme. |
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Friday, March 7th,
10:30 a.m. at Flower Memorial Library
Over 200 children and
parents attended and had a great time. Inger Curth, Library Director at
JCC, once again charmed the children with her singing and guitar
playing. Kyrie Russ and Yvonne Reff read Dr. Seuss books. Literacy
of NNY gave out free Dr. Seuss books to each family. Take a look at
pictures of some of the parents and children listening to the stories
and enjoying snacks and juice afterwards.
Jefferson
County, Calcium Primary School International Festival
Thursday, Feb., 28th,
Calcium School presented its 17th annual International Festival. What a
wonderful event this was! Two ESOL students attended with me. There were
several tables with gorgeous displays from different countries, craft
tables with international themes, lots of delicious food, all followed
by an assembly.
St.
Lawrence County "Recognition Celebration"
Sat., Feb. 9th, 9:30
am to 11:30 am
We served some light
refreshments (banana and cranberry bread, fruit salad, coffee, tea) and
everyone seemed to really have a wonderful time. When we went around
the room and gave people an opportunity to say how they feel they are
benefiting from their involvement with the program, MANY nice comments
were made. One student (Guohua) said that her tutor (Barb Evans)
"brought color into her life" and Barb responded that it was "the nicest
thing anyone had ever said about her".
Bobby
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Amber Trerise, and tutor Mary Ann Axtell, Anne Mazzotta
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Pampa Bhattacharya
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Tutor, Betty Skiff, and Juannan Li
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Zahra Ghorbani and Asghar Goli
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Abdel Karin Moumen with his daughter
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Guitarist, Jeff Lyons
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Tutor, Barb Evans, and student, Gouha Zhou with baby
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Pampa Bhattacharyya and son
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St.
Lawrence County
Congratulations to 6 newly certified tutors from the Gouverneur area.
Children's Book Give-A-Way! 2007
Thanks again this
year to the efforts of Inger Curth, JCC Library Director, and the
generosity of JCC staff and students. LNNY set up its annual book
give-a-way table during the Salvation Army Christmas gift and food
package distribution day. Parents and children enthusiastically accepted
books and repeatedly expressed their appreciation for the gift of free
books.
St.
Lawrence County Silent Auction
Lewis
County Eat, Read, Play Smart event, October 2007
Pat Dietrich, Lewis County tutor, hosted an event at
the Lowville library to promote literacy and nutrition for children.
St.
Lawrence Tutor Training class, Potsdam, Fall 2007
On Saturday, October 6th, 19 new tutors were
certified.
JCC
Walk/Run for Literacy
On Monday,
September 24, 2007, Jefferson Community College students joined in a
walk/run for literacy in honor of Dr. Carole McCoy’s Inauguration. Dr.
McCoy is the newly appointed president of JCC.
Almost 100 students (some
bringing babies and even a dog) donated supplies to be distributed to
local literacy programs. This was the admission fee and Literacy of NNY
was chosen as the recipient to give out the items. There were books,
pencils, notebooks, highlighters, crayons, markers, knapsacks, and many
more items. Literacy of NNY will give these supplies to other literacy
programs, non-profit agencies, students and their children, anyone who
can use the writing supplies.
Kenyon
Wells and De Ette Marshall did a fantastic job organizing the event and
Literacy of NNY is very grateful to have been chosen to receive the
supplies.
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They're off
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Dr. Carole McCoy (left), her husband (center), and Kate Fenlon, Vice President of Academic Afffairs.
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Lewis
County tutor In service
Several tutors
attended this event. It was a chance to meet some of the other tutors,
share ideas, and learn
about new policies, material, and
theory. In
response to the questionnaire, tutors expressed a need to feel
"networked". We are planning to have more In service sessions and meet
bi-monthly for informal social sessions. Some of the other issues
discussed included the photocopier, materials, motivating a student, and
homework. Any copies can be made at the Watertown office. Just call in
your request and they will be sent. The Watertown office is available for
any assistance - copies, materials, etc. Call 376-8188 (calls are
forwarded) or 782-4270.
Dr.
Seuss Reading Extravaganza!
Raffle winners:
Book Basket: Megan and
Samantha Houston
Spa Basket: Cheryl Ryan
Beach Toys: Pat Lopez
Candy Basket: Helen Van Tassel
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Cheryl Ryan, winner of Spa package from Bonnie Castle Resort
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Deana Lopes, winner of beach toys and Water Safari Basket
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Saturday, August
4th at the Watertown Ice Arena:
As you can see,
everyone had fun. Click on the gallery thumbnails.
Photo contest
winners:
Luke Freeman
Aisha Rapant
Dr. Seuss readers:
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Baby Luke Freeman reading Sneetches |
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Inger Curth, from JCC Library, sent this little fellow over to us.
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Shantell (12) and Kara (7)
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Tutor
In-service, Jefferson County, May, 2007
This event had a
good turnout. Tutors from both Jefferson and Lewis counties came and
exchanged ideas, discussed issues, and came up with suggestions to help
each other and ideas for future sessions.
Edwin, Lynette, Virginia, and Karen
Lewis
County Walkathon 2007
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Cat in the Hat and friend
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Denise Zehr
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Happy walkers
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Sandy, the "Cat in the Hat"
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Winner of basket
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Board
of Directors Meeting
At
the Board of Directors meeting, May 9, 2007, Kate Fenlon, Dean of
Academics at JCC, displays a plaque honoring her service as president of
the Board of Directors of Literacy of Northern NY. With her are Allen
Goudie, who replaces her as board president, and E. Alan Harris, Jr.,
board treasurer.
Ready
Set Fun", May 12, 1-4
Literacy of NNY had a booth at this book fest sponsored by
WPBS Television.
Cecilia, the Director, demonstrated how to make "masks on a stick" and
the children then made their own.
Scrabble Tournament, St. Lawrence County
Sunday, April 1, our
Potsdam office hosted another successful Scrabble tournament.
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Bobby Gordon and Scrabble participants
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2007 Scrabble, winning boys with their trophy
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2007 Scrabble Elks team
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Scrabble 2007, ladies team with their trophy
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Scrabble Tournament
2007, Jefferson County
The Scrabble Tournament
was a great success . We had several youth teams this year to add to the
fun. Megan's youth team came in first, Thomas's team second, and
Donovan's third. The winning adult team had a final score of 2436. Thank
you for supporting this event.
Dr.
Seuss Reading Celebration
On
Friday, March 2, 2007, Literacy of Northern NY and Flower Memorial
Library sponsored a Dr. Seuss reading celebration in honor of Dr.
Seuss's birthday. Our pictures show just how much fun we had.
Click on the thumbnails.
Inger and friend
Harley Christina
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