Family Literacy Night is an event that I planned as a part of my AmeriCorps year for Manson Elementary school. Manson is the neighboring town to Chelan, and is a wonderful, small and welcoming community. This was my first ever event of this type, which turned out to be quite the success. With twenty-five volunteers, 100 attendees and several different activities throughout the night, I believe everyone enjoyed themselves and had fun with literacy.
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| Parent Workshop on "The Importance of Literacy" delivered by community professionals, conducted in Spanish. |
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| "Story Lady" reads to a group of elementary students as parents and volunteers are gathered around to listen. |
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| Students are working on an arts and craft activity that matches the "winter" theme of the stories, before heading back to the gym for a book swap and prizes from the local book store. |
In North Central Washington, MLK weekend is celebrated with Winterfest…to some this means ice, snow, jackets, sledding and hot cocoa; while to
others this means swimming. One of the ways that towns like Chelan keep their
businesses going throughout the winter is by having festivals like this one over three-day weekends. This involved having a huge bonfire
of everyone’s old Christmas trees and the infamous Polar Plunge. Oh, yes, several of our group went in!
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| Winterfest is also famous for the beautifully crafted ice sculptures outside every downtown store front. These are some of our awesome Washingtonian friends. |
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| Happy Birthday, Joe! What better way to celebrate than with Settlers and a box cake? |
One weekend, four friends (two couples) got engaged! Congrats to Chelsey and Jimmy (above) and Erin and Sean (below).
You know you really have great friends when you can call them up late at night in early December, get them all on one phone conversation, ask them to book plane tickets to come visit during President's Weekend in February and they do it that night. After a day of checking out Pike Place in Seattle and walking along Puget Sound, we made the long trek back to Chelan.
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| Yes, they really do throw fish, just like the one the guy is holding! |
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| First Day in Chelan |
I think the picture explains it all.
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| Went up to the parking lot of my elementary school to check out the view of Lake Chelan. |
Saturday night we went out to the Bavarian themed town, Leavenworth, and enjoyed some delicious cuisine at the beer garden.
After spending Sunday morning at Lake Chelan Lutheran Church, we headed up to Martin's house where we were greeted with a surprise!
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| Martin calls this a "weasel." It is a WWII tank that got a new paint job and still operates. We loaded the inside (and boarded the top) and started to make our way to the top of the hill. |
Okay, well we didn't quite make it to the the top of the hill, but had an exciting ride=). Thanks, Martin, visits to your place are always a fun-filled experience.
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| Hopefully you saw the tower from my fall post....if not, check it out! |
What a wonderful way to hang with some of our favorite peeps! Thanks, CA family for coming to visit and Flemings for hosting us!
Tata for now!
In North Central Washington, MLK weekend is celebrated with Winterfest…to some this means ice, snow, jackets, sledding and hot cocoa; while to
others this means swimming. One of the ways that towns like Chelan keep their
businesses going throughout the winter is by having festivals like this one over three-day weekends. This involved having a huge bonfire
of everyone’s old Christmas trees and the infamous Polar Plunge. Oh, yes, several of our group went in!
You know you really have great friends when you can call them up late at night in early December, get them all on one phone conversation, ask them to book plane tickets to come visit during President's Weekend in February and they do it that night. After a day of checking out Pike Place in Seattle and walking along Puget Sound, we made the long trek back to Chelan.
