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Hello New Haven Reads students!
Our team at NHR is thinking of you and wanted to say hello and encourage you to keep on reading! We hope that you enjoy our video and we can’t wait to see you soon!
Click here to watch our video!
If you need literacy resources to help with homeschooling ideas, please visit our resources page here.
In line with New Haven Public Schools, New Haven Reads will be closed until further notice from Friday, March 13, 2020 due to concerns related to the coronavirus/COVID-19.
All four locations will be closed and there will be no programs. As the situation changes, we will post updates here on our website and social media.
Thank you for your support of this decision and we hope that you and your families stay healthy.
De acuerdo con las Escuelas Públicas de New Haven, New Haven Reads estará cerrado hasta aviso adicional a partir del viernes 13 de marzo de 2020 debido a preocupaciones relacionadas con el coronavirus/COVID-19.
Los cuatro sitios estarán cerrados y no habrán programas. A medida que la situación cambie, publicaremos actualizaciones aquí en nuestro sitio web y redes sociales (Facebook, Instagram y Twitter).
Gracias por su apoyo a esta decisión y esperamos que usted y sus familias se mantengan saludables.
Dear Parents,
We need your help!
As you may have heard, New Haven Reads is not receiving our full funding from the State of CT. This means there is a big gap in our budget so we are asking the legislators on the Appropriations Committee to restore this funding for our critical programs. Please help us by writing an email to support our request.
Please send an email to the following email address – information@test.newhavenreads.org – that tells the legislators about the impact that New Haven Reads has had on your child.
If you are more comfortable writing in your native language, please do so (and tell us what it is), and we will translate it.
Your email can be short. We want to hear your voice. We need your emails by March 27 as we have to deliver them on March 30. If you would like to handwrite a letter, please deliver it to 45 Bristol Street, New Haven, CT 06511 into the mailbox at our Bristol Street location by Thursday, March 26.
Thank you for all that you do for New Haven Reads!
Hayley and Kirsten
Education Director and Executive Director
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Estimados Padres de Familia,
Necesitamos su ayuda!
A escuchado que New Haven Reads no esta recibiendo fundos completo del estado de CT. Esto significa que hay un grande espacio en nuestro presupuesto, nosotros queremos a preguntar a los legisladores del Comité de Apropiaciones nos apoyen a restaurar el fondo para nuestro programa crítico. Por favor ayúdenos escribiendo un correo electrónico a apoyar nuestra solicitud.
Por favor manda a la siguiente dirección del correo electrónico – information@test.newhavenreads.org – que dice a los le legisladores acerca del impacto que New Haven Reads a hecho por su niño/a.
Si estás más cómodo escribiendo en su idioma, por favor hazlo (y díganos que es), nosotros podemos traducirlo.
Su correo electrónico puede ser corto. Queremos escuchar su voz. Queremos su correos electrónicos para el 27 de Marzo para nosotros enviar el 30 de Marzo. Si quieres a escribir una carta, por favor entregue a 45 Bristol Street, New Haven, CT 06511 en el buzon en Bristol Street para el jueves, 26 de Marzo.
Gracias por todo que hacen para New Haven Reads!
Hayley y Kirsten
Directora de Educación y Directora Ejecutiva
Huge thanks to our community partner, The Study at Yale for hosting the 10th Annual Breakfast with Santa for our youngest students and their families.
[metaslider id=”4116″]This is a guest post from Franziska Lee, one of our volunteer tutors. Franziska is a student at Hamden High / ECA Creative Writing.
On a Thursday afternoon in July, when I stopped by NHR’s Willow Street location, the Arts & Crafts Club was making God’s eyes–squares of yarn twisted around popsicle sticks. Kidz Bop played on the radio, and the sun gilded the room like honey. After a couple tries, everyone had a luminous creation of their own. In the time remaining, some of the kids moved on to folding paper fortune tellers. Most, happy with their newfound skill, started twisting second and third God’s eyes, in different colors than before. The fluffy multicolored yarn was in highest demand, but nearly every shade of the rainbow found use. For an hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays, attendees of the Arts & Crafts Club meetings get to try out a new craft and flex their creative muscles. Last week, one girl told me, they painted with watercolors.
During the duration of the six-week summer session, in addition to tutoring, New Haven Reads offers a diverse program of academic clubs. Most are run by interns and fellows, with the help of the staff and other volunteers. The goal is to prevent “summer slide,” or the all-too-easy lapse into forgetfulness that can occur during the prolonged vacation from a school environment. For example, in Math Club, the children use Khan Academy’s leveled online math program and grade-appropriate worksheets to refresh and prepare for the fall. When I visited, the club used its last fifteen minutes to play multiplication bingo. The game created a fun incentive to think fast. Kids were giddy with excitement, bursting to shout out the answers.
Other clubs offered this year include animals, drama, science, and chess. All operate on the principle of engaging students’ minds over summer break. Like any muscle, the brain needs to be exercised, and New Haven Reads provides a fun and reliable way to do so.
New Haven Reads had the opportunity to speak with Ann Nyberg from WTNH on her NYBERG show about our mission and our need for volunteers! Click here to watch.
Please share with someone you think would be a great volunteer for NHR!
