May 19 Sunday
"Tips by Text", a free innovative kindergarten readiness text message program for parents and caregivers of 4 -year-olds, is being launched throughout many New Mexico school districts this fall.
Caregivers who enroll in "Tips by Text" will not only receive a free $25 merchandise card, but they’ll be signed up to receive informative and fun text messages offering tips on how to support their child's development. Families are eligible to participate if their child was born on or before September 1, 2019, and has not yet started kindergarten. Funded by the Institute of Education Sciences at the US Department of Education, this program serves families in over eighty-two New Mexico school districts including Dulce, Taos, Española and Pecos school districts.
Parents and caregivers may determine eligibility and sign up by visiting the website: tipsbytextnm.org or by calling Rebecca Kilburn at: 505-910-4862
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May 25 Saturday
On Saturday, May 25th our Storyteller will be Ed Lewis (Acoma) and book title will be Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story by Joseph Bruchac (available on the Indian Pueblo Store website).
As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless, but Chester refused to give up his heritage.
Years later, during World War II, Chester and other Navajo men like him were recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly, the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war.
This powerful picture book biography contains back matter including a timeline and a portion of the Navajo code, and also depicts the life of an original Navajo code talker while capturing the importance of heritage.
May 26 Sunday
May 27 Monday