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;www.bvsvt.orgemail=evaughn@wcsu.net

MyTerrificFamily

Designed by

Eileen Vaughn

University of Vermont

Asian Studies Overseas Program

Summer 2011

AdigitalcopywascreatedonIssuu.Gotomylibrarysitetoviewonline.

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