CGS students bring Chinese language, culture to Brookside - Thehour.com: Elementary Schools

CGS students bring Chinese language, culture to Brookside - Thehour.com: Elementary Schools: NORWALK -- Walk by the Brookside Elementary School library on a Friday and you might hear elementary students uttering their first words of Chinese.

Ancestors being Discovered

 I recently signed up on Ancestor.Com web site. I enjoy reseaching about people in my family. There are many interesting artifacts about family members. The local Fitchburg Sentinel has archived many past issues going back to the early 1900's. I have started to build the Hay and Aho family trees. I found several things that I had completly forgot about over the years.

Raising the Curve

Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America’s 45,000 Failing Public Schools


Ron Berler. Berkley, (256p) ISBN 978-0-425-25268-0

Brookside Elementary School in Norwalk, Conn., is one of over 45,000 schools labeled “failing” because of low scores on annual mandatory state tests. Yet, according to journalist Berler’s inspiring story of one year in the life of the school, Brookside is hardly a failure. In a compulsively readable and fast-paced chronicle of the lives of administrators, teachers, and students, Berler captures the deep love the teachers have for their students and the teachers’ struggles to teach to the test while hoping to instill a love of learning. Among other students, we meet Marbella, who has great potential but who is not an especially dedicated student, and Hydea, a shy but deeply imaginative girl with great, though untapped, reading ability, who is performing below her grade level at the start of her fifth-grade year. Both girls find themselves in Mr. Morey’s class. Morey is a committed teacher who “spends his days instilling in his students an eagerness to learn” and watching them blossom. With Morey’s efforts, and the leadership of the school’s principal, Mr. Hay, and the school’s reading specialist, Mrs. Schaefer, Marbella, Hydea, and a number of other students show significant academic improvement and blossom when they enter middle school, a truer measure of the school’s success than the statewide test. (Mar.)

Reviewed on: 01/28/2013

On sale March 5, 2013

Classmates

2015 will be my 50th year since my high school graduation.
I was thinking about the many students that were in my class from 1st to 12th grade. I decided to try to remember the names of as many classmates as possible. I left the Ashby school system for my 9th, 10th and 11th years but returned for my senior year.    * (Class of 65)

Dennis Stone            *Linda Koski           * Walter Koski         Jerry Stevenson
*John Mickola          *Al Perry                 * Diane Clay             Bobby Gaudreau
*Linda Bennett          Ray Vachon              Larry Shattuck         Pat Dunshee
*Harry Laaksonen       Mike Nievala           Bill  Atherton          Bill Green
Cynthia Ojala             Maryellen Lajoie     *Veijo Kopsala       *Sharon Haavisto
*Doreen Poudrier       Kandice Walton      Calvin Hopkins         David Crock
Patty Menken            *Tuula Kainu         *Sandra Wiswell      *Sandra Tyler
Bill Tracy                   Harold Flagg            Paul Gerry             *Patty McMurray
*Janice Ouellette        *Janet Ouellette     *Donna Dodge        *Patty Kelly
*Joyce Carney         * Arlene Boudreau  *Linda Peterson       *Cassandra Lawrence
*David Hay                Jane Woodruff        David Docekel        Perry Arujo
Steven Honkala           Larry Bennett.     * Sharon Wilkinson    Albert Chalke
*Donna Weeks.          Sandra Terho         Terry Harrington      Robert Goff
*Larry Bancroft           R. Donnell              P Meredith              M. Gove
Doug Dolan                 C. Burns                 Nancy Boutotte      J. Coleman

Stamford and Norwalk sweep Lone Pine awards - Thehour.com: Elementary

Stamford and Norwalk sweep Lone Pine awards - Thehour.com: Elementary: STAMFORD -- Two Stamford schools and two Norwalk schools were honored by the Lone Pine Foundation at their Fairfield County Academic Gain Awar…

Red Sox 2013

Last year was a total waste in that the Red Sox placed last in their division with 93 losses. The pass two weeks the Red Sox have been picking up new players that hopefully will be positive in the clubhouse. Chemistry in all working situations is critical for success. There were several players on last year's team that were toxic. The choice of Bobby V. did not help the situation. Looking forward to Spring training and the new year. Pitching as always will be the key. Several pitchers from last year had their worst performance of their career.

Lone Pine Foundation Award

Brookside again was chosen by the Lone Pine Foundation (Greenwich)  as one of the top schools in Fairfield County for academic gain. In 2008 and now in 2012 Brookside was in the top four schools chosen. The school received a check for $1,000 to be used to support school goals.