What fun to see the photos MiniBury readers snapped while completing their ACSD Winter Passports this year! Here are some favorites. Above, Kayden Castle, a Bridport Elementary School student zooms on his saucer. And below, he shoots out of some kind of amazing tube slide. Here’s Elaina Pelkey, 5, enjoying the ice at Vermont Trade […]
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Julie Schondube has been teaching kindergarten at Mary Hogan Elementary School for the last 19 years. This year looks a bit different — instead of hugs and high fives for individual greetings in the morning, the kids wave or dab or do a silly dance. Instead of sitting around tables, each kindergartener has their own
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Do you have a child starting kindergarten next fall? Registration is happening now. “This is a tricky year for enrollment because so many parents didn’t enroll their kids in preschool programming,” said Meg Baker, the universal pre-k coordinator for ACSD, MAUSD and ANWSD. A lot of families, facing the uncertainties of the pandemic, opted to
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Every March, Duclos & Thompson Farm in Weybridge holds an open barn event for the community, and thousands show up to mingle with the new lambs. The event was cancelled this year because of the pandemic, but the lambs are as cute as ever. I called up co-owner Lisa Thompson (pictured above) last week to
Want to visit a working maple sugar shack? Vermont’s Maple Open House Weekend was cancelled this year, but here’s a different way to get inside and see the magic happen — and stock up on maple goodies — thanks to the Sheldon Museum. You’re invited to take a sweet mystery tour on Saturday, March 20,
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“I always think of the postpartum period as a period of isolation,” said Alison Underwood. Parents are adjusting. They’re not sleeping much, not gathering with friends the way they used to. They’re staying home to protect their baby’s fragile immune system. But the pandemic has complicated things, said Underwood, a licensed independent clinical social worker
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These are so easy, but the wow factor is high. My kids had never experienced water balloons before, so just the act of filling a balloon with water was mind-blowing to them. We were inspired to try this project after seeing similar ice balloons outside the Mary Hogan pre-K entrance earlier this winter. WHAT YOU
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Did your kids bring a winter passport home from school? This year’s passport was created by the ACSD Community Partnership Council — the same group responsible for the brand new ice rink in Middlebury and the school-based health center at Middlebury Union High School that opened last winter. The council’s focus this year is on
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When Maria Graham hatched the idea to build an outdoor ice rink in Middlebury just in time for the February school break, it didn’t take long to rustle up community support. Within a week, Graham’s coworker Janet Lapiner, who is on the ACSD Community Partnership Council’s “Joy Committee” — yes, that’s a real thing —
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