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Mountain View School District’s Summer Bridge Program by Michele Earle El Monte
Continuing its focus on English Learners, the Mountain View School District utilizes the Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) program, a comprehensive model of intensive, enriched language and literacy education for students in preschool through third grade. SEAL pushes students to use richer
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language in curriculum incorporating literature, social studies and science taught through such popular themes as animals and the solar system. All of the SEAL classrooms feature similar techniques jointly developed by teachers. This includes "collaborative conversation" between pairs of students to develop oral skills, charts labeled with words to build vocabulary and frequent writing assignments. Extending the learning into the summer, the district offered a 10-day SEAL Summer Bridge Program at three schools which enabled students to get a jump start on the school year, providing exceptional learning opportunities for kindergarten through 3rd grade students. Teachers utilized thematic units of instruction as they implemented Common Core and English Language Devel-
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opment standards to develop the students’ language and literacy skills. Designed to be “alive with language” the SEAL classrooms bustle with conver-
sations as teachers engage the students to talk about what they are learning, ask questions, and predict and wonder about their world. MVSD’s SEAL teachers use
rich, expressive language to create an environment where academic vocabulary comes to life. The class-
Summer Bridge continued on page 14
Anime Expo 2015 and Comic Con 2015
by Devette Johnson and Glen Maldonado Los Angeles/ San Diego
Wow, what a whirlwind for the past two weeks here at Mid Valley News and Mid Valley Radio. We had the privilege of attending the 2015 Anime Expo in Los Angeles and Comic Con in San Diego. Our adventure began with the 2015 Anime Expo. During our visit we were able to attend a few panels, view some amazing cosplay costumes and ate some great food at the large assortment of food trucks located in a parking lot across from the convention center. If you were able to attend the event you know what we are talking about; but if you weren’t we are going to do our best to describe our journey and share our experience with you. So hold on here we go. YouTube bloggers are popular and we ran into a couple from Buzz Feed before our day began Friday,
July 10. Our next stop was the Anime Music Competition; it’s a compilation of music dubbed with some of the popular anime. The selection of music ranged from techno, electronic, alt. rock and classical. Here are few artists featured (reference source sound hound). Some of the anime featured in the compilation are: “Full Aleck Me,” Yu yu Hakrio,” “Knight if Sinorina.” In the Drama and theatrical category was “Mento” dub, “Friends” dub, “English Rain” to the movie of the “Little Prince Returns.” "Hurricane" 39 sec to Mars, "Future Diary" anime," The New World," "The Wind Rises," "Echo," Jason Walker;" Anime : " Your Lie Out," “Kingdom Heart” compilation, music "Der Weirwolf Teil," "My Neighbor Figaro," “My Neighbor Senki;” Music: “Immor-
Courtesy photos by Devette Johnson Anime and Comic Con continued on page 7