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Pizza Party at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School
PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Friday, April 11, 2014; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, W. 70th and Detroit Avenue: Kindergarten student, Arihanna Aqqad, age 6, enjoys a piece of pizza. She nods her head affirmatively when asked if she read a lot of books this year and says, “That’s why we got to have this…
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SPARK program at Clark Elementary prepares children for kindergarten
by Nora Rodriquez (Plain Press, June 2011) On Saturday, May 14, The Literacy Cooperative hosted children, parents and tutors from the SPARK, Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids program at the Children’s Museum of Cleveland. SPARK is an in-home tutoring program that prepares children for kindergarten, using home lesson plans and heavy parental involvement. At…
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Neighborhood children enjoy story hour at Tremont Scoops
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, June 2011) On Monday, May 2nd, seventeen children from the Merrick House Day Care program visited Tremont Scoops for an hour of listening to readings of children’s books and eating ice cream. The children were treated to a reading of Casper Joe by the book’s author Connie Randolph of Salinville,…