Let me tell you what's been happening. SUMMER TIME: Our summer was very succesful. Over the past years we had an average of 80
children participate in our summer program. This past summer we cut the number down to 30. We wanted the children to have more one on one time with their teachers. Many of the kids around our community are well below their reading level. Thanks to Diane Simonsen we were able to train our summer teachers and to test the kids on literacy levels so we could be able to place them according to their reading level. Besides reading, we had our teachers focus also on writing and math. For the five or six weeks that we have summer program we have a field trip every Friday. On one occasion we took the children to the LA ZOO. I was wlaking along with Shayanna, one of the 3rd graders, who is also my neighbor, and she was able to read the information about the animals without having to stop and think about how to pronounce any of the words. It made me happy to hear her read like that.