Doing Community Service at The Learning Place....

Student Rally in Arkansas 2008

Senator Valesky, Andrew, & Lewellyn at Learning Place

Book Review NightJohn by Gary Paulson

NightJohn was about slavery in the USA. The problem that one slave went through in her daily life.
My favorite part of the book was when Sarney got free from the bad people. One of the most memorable scenes in story was when NightJohn took care of Sarney and taught her numbers,reading and how to keep herself safe. The thing I learned most from this book is that slavery was not right then and its not right now. This story makes me want to learn more about slavery, where it began and when is it going to end!

Nichole

Garden Project

My name is Taylor.I am 17 years old and I attend GED classes at The Learning Place. I attend a lot of the workshops held by the Federal Credit Union. The workshops I went to so far are Women in Business, marketing, business planning, and business finance. The workshops are basically for women owning or going to own their own business. And learning about having your own.
I really have learned a lot from attending the workshops. And enjoyed attending them.

I'm also attending a garden project. My group and I in the garden project are working in the front yard of The Learning Place. I have learned so much about gardening. I have learned about native plants that attract bees, birds and butterflies. The plants we are growing in the front yard are sunflowers, Zinnias, cosmos, Salvia, marigolds, and many many more plants and flowers. We are also putting down and spreading mulch. Also inside The Learning Place we are planting seeds in little containers and leaving them in front of a big window to get lots of sun. Other groups are working on the side yard and the back yard. They are planting other interesting plants like vegetables, including tomatoes and lots more. I can't wait until we are finished we are going to have fun selling the produce and flowers. The Learning Place is going to look awesome.

I have learned a lot from attending the Learning Place and the garden project and the workshops. This year has been a fun year. Hope you enjoyed reading this.

Always,

Taylor

P.S. Also another little project, we painted a room and put furniture in it for a women's hangout space basically. It is very relaxing and the colors look good and the furniture looks awesome and it's a very comfortable room.

Andrew Washington With Arkansas Governor, Mike Beebe, Meet At Proliteracy Conference

Welcome to TLP Shines!!!!!

Welcome to TLP Shines. This is the second blog of The Learning Place, an adult literacy center in Central NY. This is the blog for our students to contribute to and add their favorite music videos, writings and topics of interest. Enjoy!