CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.+3+N.+19

February 12, 2013 RONDA'S CORNER  IF YOU REQUESTED A BOOK AND HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING PLEASE E-MAIL RONDA. SHE IS FEELING BETTER BUT IS ELBOW DEEP IN COMMON CORE MODULES!  MARYY ANN'S MEANDERINGS

Genesee Country Museum Schedule

The museum officially opens on May 11, but 2013 activities begin this month. Here's the 2013 season schedule:

Feb. 22-23--Owl Moon Feb. 23--Heirloom Gardening Seminar Mar. 16-17, 23-24--Maple Sugar Festival Apr. 20--15th Annual Antique Show & Sale May 11--Opening Day May 12--Mother's Day May 18--New York's Military Heritage Day May 19--Red Day

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">June 8-9--Dairy Weekend <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">June 22-23--War of 1812 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Bicentennial & Jane Austen Weekend <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">June 29--NEW! Celtic Faire <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">July 4--Independence Day <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">July 20-21--Civil War Re-enactment <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">July 27--Concert on the Meadow <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Aug. 3-4--Laura Ingalls Wilder Days <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Aug. 9-11--National Silver Base Ball Tournament <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Aug. 17-18--Old-Time Fiddlers' Fair <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Aug. 24--NEW! Victorian Day <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Aug. 25--NEW! Equality Day

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sept. 7--LobsterFest - <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Whirl Fundraiser Sept. 7-8--Wrapped in Silk <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sept. 21-22--NEW! Fire! Fire! Fire! <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Oct. 5-6--The Fall Festival featuring the Agricultural Fair <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Oct. 18-19, 25-26--Spirits of the Past Theatrical Tours <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Oct. 26-27--Trick-or-Treating in the Village <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Nov. 30--Preparing for the Holidays/Crafts at Christmas/Breakfast with St Nicholas <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Dec. 6-8, 13-15, 20-22--Yuletide Tour

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Digital Resources from PBS <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Celebrate Black History Month in your classroom by highlighting the African American artists, educators, icons, and influential leaders that have impacted our nation's history and culture. Use PBS LearningMedia to enhance your lessons with interviews, historic images and videos - and remember to <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|register online] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">for full access to the library. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Duke] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Grades 1-4 | Animated Storybook | Icons in MusicIntroduce your young students to the toe-tapping genres of ragtime and jazz through the story of iconic musician, Duke Ellington. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Rosa Parks] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Grades 3-12 | Interview | Civil Rights IconsEnhance classroom discussion around the Civil Rights Movement with this interview of Rosa Parks and ask your students to examine her role in the struggle for racial equality. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Picturing America - Jacob Lawrence and Martin Puryear] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Grades 6-12 | Video | Icons in ArtInvite your students to uncover the driving themes behind the paintings in Jacob Lawrence's “Migration Series” and the elements influencing Martin Puryear's sculpture work. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Remembering Civil Rights Leader Dorothy Height] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Grades 6-13+ | Video | Civil Rights IconsMeet the woman that President Obama hailed as the "Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement." Ask your students to consider her impact on the rights of African Americans and women. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Deconstructing the Documentary] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Grades 9-12 | CollectionInvite your class to experience Bordentown, the remarkable all-black boarding school described as a "unique educational utopia."

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Lucy Laney] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Grades 9-12 | Video | Icons in EducationLaney, an influential Jim Crow-era educator, believed it was essential to cultivate the minds of her students in order to develop intellectual leaders for the future. Invite your students to consider her philosophy of education.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Path through History: Peter Feinman founder and president of the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">,a non-profit organization which provides enrichment programs for schools, professional development program for teachers, public programs including leading Historyhostels and Teacherhostels to the historic sites in the state, promotes county history conferences, the development of Paths through History, and a Common Core Curriculum that includes local and state history.

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