What are you doing this summer? Many of our Falcons are traveling this summer. Many have sent postcards back,listing their tales of adventure. Please feel free to send a post card to :315-41st Street West, Bradenton, FLA 34209.I shall add it to our library display in September.
Summer time is here and a number of us are on campus, working hard to make the 2008/2009 school year a wonderful year for our students. Personally, I am on campus for the first three weeks in June, cleaning and compiling an inventory of our 15 078 library items ( books, videos, DVDs etc). In the middle of July, I will have a week to place orders for new books, AR tests, renewing our online databases and such. I shall also be ordering our birthday books for our 2008/2009 school year. This is a fun program in which we celebrate a student’s birthday by purchasing a new library book for all chidlren to enjoy. These special books are given out in chapel and have a bookplate announcing the child’s name and birth date. Every attempt is made to meet the child’s interests and reading level. (If you would like to enrol your child in this program, please contact me for more information, or click on our birthday book web link.)
Luckily, I will be able to spend four weeks with Eoin. I anticipate that we will hang out, go to the beach, swim in our community pool and other summertime fun. The Potwin clan is eager for a few days in Orlando: to hang out by the pool and perhaps visit the Magic Kingdom. Mickey Mouse here we come!
In a future blog, I shall be documenting my adventures in Boone, North Carolina. A wonderful National Endowment for the Humanities grant has been bestowed upon me. During the week of July 7th, I shall be in the Applachians studying the history, the culture and the economic impact of the Blue Ridge parkway. While this might appear to be a leap from children’s literature, I am interested in the natural world. While living in Vermont and New York State, it was common for me to spend my weekends in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. I am eager to experience the Appalachians and draw upon its similarities to the ADK. (See link to Paul Smith College, Saranac Lake, New York) .
Friends, please keep reading this summer! See you on campus on August 20th.
