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Randall Carter students raise money for reading (March 17, 2011)

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Previous Events

Shakespeare Theatre Event - Saturday evening, November 13, 2010

Join us for the theatrical production of:
“The Lion in Winter”
Place : F M Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940
Time: 8PM - There will be a Wine & Cheese pre-theatre reception 7 – 7:45 pm
Cost: $55. To purchase tickets email dana@fireflykidz.org or call 973-650-4072
Book Fair at Barnes & Noble - Thursday, June 24, 2010. Readings and book signings by the following children’s authors – Jane Lovascio – Casey & Bella series; Pamela Swallow – Groundhog Has Its Say, It Only Looks Easy, Melvil & Dewey series; Cynthia Chapman Willis – Dog Gone, Buck Fever and Pat Brisson – Sometimes We Were Brave, The Best and the Hardest Thing, Melissa Parkington’s Beautiful, Beautiful Hair, The Summer My Father Was Ten.

Additional entertainment at this all day event included children songs and sing-alongs led by Guitar Bob and strolling magical tricks performed by Constantine the Magician.

Music & Literacy Children’s Program with Guitar Bob – Saturday May 22, 2010 at 12 noon Oxford Learning Center, Whippany New Jersey.

The Firefly newsletter is issued periodically.  This newsletter will have information pertaining to all areas of literacy awareness and education.  With the recent initiative to ‘Go Green’, this newsletter will be posted on our website.  All literacy partners will receive an e-mail when the newsletter is posted on the website.

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Spring Newsletter - 2011 (308 Kb PDF)

Summer Newsletter - 2010 (600 Kb PDF)

Winter Newsletter - 2009-2010 (181 Kb PDF)

Fall Newsletter - 2009 (1.1 Mb PDF)

 


Quotes

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) -

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” - Mortimer J. Adler -

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” - Charles W. Eliot -

“As we lift children into the light of literacy, so are we lifted.”

 
 
             
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