District 518 Literacy Volunteers: May 2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Learning about how to learn

Below is a short video about one way to help your students retain what they're learning.

The Minnesota Literacy Council, our sponsoring organization, is holding a fund raising raffle. Please see below for details:

Get your tickets NOW for the Literacy Council's third annual Links to Literacy Raffle on June 8! Just $10 gives you a chance to win 1 of 7 fantastic prizes, including:

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a 42" Plasma Television
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a North Shore Getaway
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a Minnesota Twins Fan package and much, much more! (Visit http://www.themlc.org/raffle for a full prize list.)

The prize drawing is Tuesday June 8 at 3 p.m. at the literacy council's main office, but you need not be present to win. Best of all, all raffle proceeds go to our life-changing literacy programs for Minnesota children and adults.

For tickets ($10 each):

* Stop by the Minnesota Literacy Council main office, 756 Transfer Road, St. Paul, between 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday – Friday

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* Contact Linda Vinz, Raffle Coordinator, at lvinz@theMLC.org or 651-645-2277 ext. 236.

All tickets must be purchased by Tuesday, June 8 at noon.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Thanks everyone for a making our AmeriCorps Open House a success!

Thanks to everyone who helped make our first AmeriCorps Open House such a success! We had a great turn out, almost 100 people attended, including several AmeriCorps alumni. Twelve Literacy Volunteers received awards for their service from the Minnesota Literacy Council. More pictures are posted on the Literacy Volunteers website. We also put together a special slide show of the year with thank yous from some of the students, which can be viewed here. Several ABE and Even Start classes also wrote thank you notes to their volunteers for the open house. If you'd like to see them, just stop by my office.

Thanks again!