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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

And another Race to Nowhere Showing

At Cumberland Congregational Church, March 1, 7pm 
Posted by Kimberly Simmons at 12:56 PM
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2012 - 2013 Point Parents

  • Vinia Mendoza & Caitlin Shetterly
  • K- Stacie Bowden & Hildy Ginsburg
  • 1/2 -Lara Seaver & Karen Sawyer
  • 3/4 - Charlie & Leisa Collins & Victoria Kostadinova
  • 5/6 - Anne Balzer & Lise Wagner
  • 7/8 - Kathy Pipkin & Helen Muther

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  • Boston Children's Theater
  • Breakwater Afterschool Programs
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  • Children's Resource Guide from Curtis Memorial Library
  • Children's Theater of Maine
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  • Fiddlehead Center for the Arts- New Gloucester and Scarborough locations
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  • Portland Ice Skating
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  • Seacoast Rep in Portsmouth
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School Songs (links to lyrics)

  • A Place in the Choir
  • As we leave this friendly place
  • Baby Ducks by Tom Hall
  • Grace : Johnny Appleseed (with Spanish lyrics too)
  • Home on the Range
  • Land of the Silver Birch / My Paddle -- sung as a round
  • Little Road and a Stone to Roll
  • Magic Penny
  • Make New Friends -- with many lyrics!
  • Ode to Joy
  • River
  • Simple Gifts
  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  • The Garden Song
  • This Land is Your Land
  • This Little Light of Mine
  • Video of Baby Ducks by Tom Hall
  • Walk in the Light (George Fox song)
  • Windmill by Alan Bell

Outing Club 2012-2013

  • Outing Club Page
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  • Maine Huts and Trails

Summer Fun

  • Bates Dance Festival
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  • Mt. Vernan Animal Kingdom
  • Ogunquit Theater Children's Shows
  • Pineland Farm Programs
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  • Portland Performing Arts Festival!
  • Portland Public Library Summer Reading Program (June Calendar)
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  • Stories by the Garden - At Friends
  • Yarmouth - Summer Arts Series

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  • Reserve a Seat At Books As Bridges : Children's Literature in Anti-Racism Education (Free)
  • Register for Educators' Workshop
  • Anne Sibley O'Brien will design and faciliate the program
  • Read Anne's blog
  • Born to Read - Maine Humanities Council Programs
  • The Brown Bookshelf (book blog)
  • Children's and YA books with interracial families
  • Blog : Diversity in YA literature (and middle grade too)
  • Lee & Low Publishers
  • Mitali Perkins blog
  • Pirate Tree - Chidlren's Literature & Social Justice
  • Race : Are We So Different?
  • Reading in Color
  • Social Justice Literature Elementary School
  • Tilbury House Maine publisher
  • Understanding Multiracial America

Alfie Kohn's coming, May 3

  • Register for the Educator's Workshop HERE
  • Alfie Kohn's homepage
  • Kohn on Huffington Post
  • Race To No Where - a documentary about the pressures teens face in our "high achievement culture"
  • Rethinking Homework - an article, reprinted on TeachersNet
  • The Homework Myth - Google Books
  • Unconditional Parenting - one of his major works

Environmental Health Links

  • Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
  • Environmental Health Strategy Center - Maine Based Action & Info
  • Kim's giant list of resources :-)
  • Living Downstream : The Film
  • Ms. Magazine article by Steingraber, linking breast cancer and pollution
  • Sandra Steingraber's bio
  • Skin Deep - what's in your soap anyway?
  • Talking to Children about Climate Change (by Steingraber)
  • Teaching Kids about Toxins -an article in Rethinking Schools
  • The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls
  • The Toxic SandBox - a book about this topic
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