~ * Maltese Caption Thyme ~ !

Twittering One said:

"Do I need my glasses, or am I
Merely seeing double ~ ?"
~ Mum

http://malteseonly.com/captions

Caption: "Get stuffed?"

Either, all those dawgs are casually gazing in roughly the same
direction; are Maltese Teddies; or have gone to Maltese heaven and have
been tastefully preserved and mounted by their former masters.

However, one interprets it; there is a great deal of "Getting stuffed
.... "

RL

Twittering, meet Kim Seung. Kim Seung, meet Twittering.
The love you both show will not go unrewarded.

Fluffydog

"I'll get you my pretty...
And your little human, too ~ !"
~ Me! Again!

"Twittering, meet Kim Seung. Kim Seung,
Meet Twittering. The love
You both show will not go unrewarded."
~ Fluffydog

"Love
For Whom ~ ?"
~ Twittering

Caption ~

"Mummy Mummy Mummy
Need meds! Need meds! Need meds!
Now! Now! Now!"
~ A Flock of Fluffy Tails
Avec Le Baskervilles en Sheep's Meadow

~ * Literacy program
Encourages first-graders to read to dogs * ~

Ironwood Elementary first-graders have four-legged teachers at the
beginning of each week.

Every Monday and Tuesday, Bailey, Sadie, Bear and Daisy arrive at the
school library ready to teach, though to them the library seems to be
only a new place to sprawl.

That's because they're dogs. Their job? Listen to the first-graders
read stories to them.

"I started teaching in '67, and I've seen so many changes in who our
students have to read to," said Ginger Currey.

Currey is a retired reading specialist who approached longtime friend
and Ironwood librarian Peggy Ziebell last school year to see if Currey
could bring her dog, Bailey, to some of the first-grade classes.

The days of having lots of free time in the evenings to read to Mom and
Dad seem long gone, Currey said.

Then a relative in New Jersey told her about a program there, where
beginning readers were encouraged to read out loud to dogs.

Currey laughed as she talked about formulating her own program of
Reading Education Assistance Dogs, READ, and presenting it to the
Marana Unified School District so she could come back to school.

"I retired from Marana a couple years ago, and I was missing the kids.
A lot," she said.

READ was founded in 1999 by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Therapy
Animals, a group that aims to improve quality of life using
human-animal bonds, as the first comprehensive literacy program built
around the idea of reading to dogs. Similar programs, like the Humane
Society-sponsored Paws to Read program, also have begun to gain
popularity.

Now in its second year at Ironwood, Currey's informal version of the
Reading Education Assistance Dogs program already has grown from
Currey's one dog to a total of four dogs. Whereas last year three
classes read to Bailey on a regular basis, this year all seven of
Ironwood's first-grade classes have time to interact with their furry
tutors.

Ziebell helps maintain order in the library as students take turns
reading to the dogs. The children have different activity stations set
up at the tables in the library to keep them busy when it's not their
turn to read, some practice reading out loud, while others do puzzles
and write notes to the dogs.

Not all students get to read to the dogs each time they come. A typical
cycle for everyone to get a turn is two to three weeks.

Ziebell coordinated the dogs that began coming this year. She knew all
the owners but was unsure how each dog would behave around the other
dogs.

Then came last week's fire drill during dog time.

The librarian scurried to the office to get special permission for the
first-graders to remain with the dogs on the library's outdoor patio so
they could continue reading.

Despite the close confines, the dogs got along beautifully, Ziebell
said.

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"Ironwood Elementary,
Four ~ legged teachers,
What's Next ~ ?"
~ Dr. AE

"I know! I know! I know!
I'm going to The Gotham
After I visit the Foodbank [stealing food],
In hopes of finding Edward ~ !"
~ Twittering

"I saw Edward ~ !"
~ This is Joan Bennent,
ABC Muse Knows,
Over & out
About town this afternoon ...

"The Posby goes into a trance
In which it does a little dance."

~ Edward Gorey,

Quoted message said:

From "The Utter Zoo Alphabet"

fluffydog said:

Twittering, meet Kim Seung. Kim Seung, meet Twittering.
The love you both show will not go unrewarded.

Fluffydog

Twittering One, have nothing to do with the Seung creature.

Rob