Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Free electronic books online for Read Across America
Friday, February 12, 2010
FAMILY LITERACY PROJECT RECEIVES BOOK GRANT
The Grenada League for Adult Development recently received 648 free books through a grant from the First Book National Book Bank for GLAD's "A Book for Every Baby" (ABEB) family literacy project. The Walmart Foundation paid the shipping for book grants in five states, including Mississippi. The retail value of the books is just over $1,900 and the shipping $225. ABEB is a community partnership to promote reading from birth.
From left: Karen LaFontaine, GLMC Perinatal Nurse Educator, distributes gift bags to new mothers. GLAD volunteer tutor and GLMC Auxiliary volunteer Phyllis Mathis oversees delivery of quarterly financial donations from the hospital auxiliary for ABEB. GLAD volunteers Trish Hightower and Emily Smith prepare about 50 gift bags per month for delivery to GLMC.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Reserve your seat for computer literacy class now
Deadline to sign up....Monday, February 1st.
This class is for true beginners to computers. It is a very basic introduction to computing, starting with how to turn one off and on.
The computer literacy lab uses Win XP and MS Office 2003.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
THE PATH TO SUCCESS...PREPARING FOR THE GED
The results of this month's testing illustrate the wisdom of enrolling in the free GED classes at the Grenada Adult Education Center to PREPARE to succeed on the GED. Of the eight GED examinees testing in January, all three who passed the test were students of the Grenada Adult Basic Ed. (ABE) program. Next new student enrollment will begin on March 22nd.
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