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Greetings from
The Green Mountain State
Vermont Fast Facts
Population: 608,827 Land Area: 9,620 sq mi – 15,482 sq km Percent Water: 3.8% Population Density: 65.8/sq mi – 106/sq km Capital: Montpelier Largest City: Burlington Highest Point: Mt. Mansfield Lowest Point: Lake Champlain
Vermont is in the North East part of the United States.
The Vermont State Song: These Green Mountains
These green hills and silver waters Are my home - they belong to me And to all of her sons and daughters May they be strong and forever free Let us live to protect her beauty And look with pride on the golden dome They say home is where the heart is These green mountains are my home These green mountains are my home Composed by Diane Martin Arranged by Rita Buglass Gluck Words and Music Copyright 2000 by Diane Martin all rights reserved
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ThecapitalofVermontisMontpelier,locatedinCentralVermont.
BridgewaterVillage
SchoolandLibrary
StudentsingradesKindergartenthroughGradeSixattendlibrarylessonseachweek.
Theschoollibraryishousedinthetownhallbuilding,whichisacrosstheparkinglotfromthe
schoolbuilding.
ThisphotographofMountTominWoodstock,VermontwastakenbyafourthgraderinBridgewaterVillageSchool.Allofmystudentswill
eventuallyattendtheWoodstockMiddleSchool/HighSchool.YoucanseetheMS/HSbelowinthisphoto.
TherearesixelementaryschoolsinourSupervisoryUnion:BarnardAcademy,BridgewaterVillageSchool,ReadingElementarySchool,Sherburne(Killington)ElementarySchool,ThePomfretSchoolandWoodstockElementarySchool.AlloftheschoolsareinWindsor
County,whichisinsouthcentralVermont.
Ourelementaryschoolpopulationsaresmall.Mostofourschoolshavefewerthan80studentsingradesPre‐KthroughSix.
The name Vermont likely comes from the French Les Verts Monts,meaning“TheGreenMountains.”Sometimesthemountainslookgreen,sometimes they look blue, sometimes they are white, and at timesduringtheFall,theysingwithmanycolors.
KillingtonMountainisthesecondlargestmountaininVermont.Studentsskiinthewintermonthsatourschools.
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PicturesfromKillingtonElementarySchoolLibrary(akaSherburneElementarySchool)
Aguestspeakstothechildrenintheschoollibrary.
StudentsmeeteveryFridayinthelibrarytotalkaboutbooks,eatlunchandhaveanicecreamtreat.
BarnardAcademyislocatedinBarnard,Vermont.Thisismyhometown.IloveteachinginBarnard–itonlytakesmeafew
minutestogettotheschool!
OnMarch2ndwecelebrateDr.Seuss’sbirthdaybyreadingDr.Seussbooks.Doyouknowthebook,TheCatintheHat?
Barnardstudentshavefunatrecess.
BarnardstudentslikeSkypingwithKillingtonstudents.Thisisaphotoshopphoto!
Doyou/yourstudentsSkypewithanyone?
Vermontisbeautifulinallfourseasons.
HuilingvisitedintheSpring.Thesnowwasfinallystartingtomelt.
Hereismydog,Skippy,enjoyingtheSummersunshine.
Autumnbringscolortothemountains.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vermont_fall_foliage_hogback_mountain.JPG
InWintertherewillbesnow‐lotsandlotsofsnow.Snowisfuntoplayin,butyoualsohavetoshovelitup.
WhatwouldyoudoifyouvisitedmyareaofVermont?
o Skio Snowshoeo Hikeo Bikeo Kayako Swimo HavelunchattheGeneralStoreo Gotothelibraryo Visitachurcho Collectmushroomso Lookforamooseo Huntbearordeero And...
TheBarnardGeneralStoreisagreatplacetoshop,eat&meetfriends.
You’llgettoknowtheresidents–ourpopulationisunder1,000.
Barnardhastwohistoricchurches.
SilverLakeStatePark–Barnard,Vermont
Youcancamp,swim,kayak,sail,fishorjustenjoythebeach.
AbouttheAuthor
I have been living in Vermont for over ten years. I am married to mywonderfulhusband,Randal,andhavetwochildren,NatalieandAlexander.
Most of my 25 years of experience has been as an elementary schoolclassroomteacher.Forthepasttenyears,Ihaveworkedasalibrarymediaspecialist in three different schools in the Windsor County SupervisoryUnion. I select librarymaterials, teach literature enrichment and libraryskills,andworkwithteachersonmediaprojects.
Myprincipals,co‐workersandstudentsarewonderful.Iamveryfortunatetobea teacher. I amveryexcited tobeable toexperience the cultureofChinafirsthand.Thankyoufortheopportunitytolearnaboutyourschoolandyourlife.
Sincerely,
Eileen
https://sites.google.com/a/wcsu.net/library802/Schoolwebsites=www.sesvt.org;www.bavt.org;[email protected]
MyTerrificFamily
Designed by
Eileen Vaughn
University of Vermont
Asian Studies Overseas Program
Summer 2011
AdigitalcopywascreatedonIssuu.Gotomylibrarysitetoviewonline.
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