Snelling Connection Newsletter of the Hancock/Hamline University Collaboration
Hamline and Hancock: Paired Up
College Begins in Kindergarten (CBiK) This edition’s CBiK advice box includes information that truly conveys how College Begins in Kindergarten. Below you will find tips from learnmoreindiana. org specifically for parents of a kindergartner (but can be applied to all ages of elementary school students). These tips comprise a checklist that parents can follow to help their children begin preparing for college early in life.
In This Issue: Mock Trials/GLDP
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Megan Anderson
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Word Find
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Earth Day
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From the Desk of...
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On the Issues
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Science Days
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More on Mock Trials
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Volume 11, Issue 3
Hancock students take notes during the Mock Trial at Hamline Law School, a Grade Level Departmental Pairing. By Caitlin Hare and Quinn Nelson Hancock Student Editors Introduction by Whitney Klein Editor
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amline and Hancock are connected in many important and special ways. The mock trials, which the Snelling Connection features each year in its spring issue, are an example of the many ways the Collaboration between the two schools works. One of the strongest connections between Hancock and Hamline is the Grade Level Departmental Pairings. These pair each grade at Hancock with a department or office at Hamline. This way, Hancock students get
to experience Hamline in many different ways and at different times throughout their years at Hancock. This experience with Hamline for Hancock students of all ages is very important for realizing the Hancock-Hamline Collaboration’s idea that “College Begins in Kindergarten.” The Snelling Connection often features the Grade Level Departmental Pairings by highlighting the current events that occur in the pairings. It is important, though, to realize that there are many more pairings than are highlighted in this publication. Each pairing is unique and important in its own way, and it is important that each gets recognition so that parents and
Craig Anderson
My child: • Has many opportunities to talk and listen • Is read to every day • Has access to books and other reading materials • Is encouraged to ask questions • Is encouraged to solve problems • Has opportunities to notice similarities and differences • Is encouraged to sort and classify things • Is learning to write name and address • Is learning to count and plays counting games • Is learning to identify and name shapes and colors • Has opportunities to draw, listen to and make music, and dance
Grade Level Departmental Pairing in Action at Law School
children alike can reflect on the pairings they’ve already seen and those that are to come in their future at Hancock. Kindergarten classes are paired with Hamline’s Bush Library. Twice each spring they visit the library and have story time. Library staff present the students with bookmarks to recognize the kindergartners’ first day at college. The Collaboration also sets up campus tours for the kindergartners to take in the spring. Hancock’s 1st-grade classes are paired with Hamline’s theater department. This pairing involves visits to Hamline’s theater, backstage, and costume rooms. Hamline students also Paired Up continued on page 6 Spring 2008