The Fall City Elementary School library was packed with people, students and adults, and a nervous tension is in the air. Students sitting on the floor held construction paper pennants and poster boards with team names on them. “In which book does a character eat a delicious shelled fruit called a rambutan?” librarian Meg Handy…
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Students draw close to friends through Anime
An old Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and Pluto was called “The Eyes Have It.” No word on how prescient ol’ Walt was back in 1945, but he might have well been talking about a different brand of cartooning hailing from Asia: Anime. Anime’s young acolytes in the Snoqualmie Valley all agree that expressive peepers…
Newsletter plans to begin honoring a Teacher of the Month
For Diana Reul-Shapiro, it was time. Her newsletter, Macaroni Kid, has become part of the Snoqualmie and Issaquah communities. After two and a half years of news about children and teachers, it’s time for her and her newsletter’s co-editor and publisher, Dana Verhoff, to give something back: the Teacher of the Month award. “Dana is…
Professor calls on teachers to engage students
Daniel W. Rasmus, a former Microsoft executive and now a consultant and visiting liberal arts fellow at Bellevue College, told Valley educators to lose their fear of saying “I don’t know.” “Let’s just say we don’t know something and co-learn with students,” he said during the annual Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation fundraiser. The event raised…