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
1
Megan Anderson
2
Word Find
2
Earth Day
3
From the Desk of...
4
On the Issues
5
Science Days
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More on Mock Trials
6
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
H
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
Collaboration Welcomes Megan Anderson
By Vanessa Jenkins and
Jalen McHie
Hancock Student Editors
W
e have a new face in
the Hancock-Hamline Collaboration,
and we are excited to introduce
her to our readers. Megan Anderson is the new Collaboration Coordinator (as well as
Service Learning Advocate at
Hamline University), taking the
place of Samantha Henningson who took a position with
the St. Paul City Council Ward
4. The Collaboration is very
excited to welcome Megan to
our community, and Megan is
excited to join us.
Megan works in the Office of
Service Learning on the Hamline campus for most of the
week, but shares space in Craig
Anderson’s office at Hancock
on Tuesdays.
As she settles into her position, she will be seen more and
more around school at Hancock. We wanted to introduce
you to her a little bit before
you meet her on the Hancock
or Hamline side.
Megan graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2005.
In our interview, she said that
her college was very similar to
Hamline, but in a small town.
She said it was up on a hill and
had great food. The profes-
sors and students were all very
kind, like at Hamline. She said
her favorite things about college were meeting new people,
choosing your own classes, and
living with friends.
Also in our interview, Megan
gave us an idea why she chose
to apply for her new position
with the Collaboration.
“I chose the job because it
combines three of my favorite
things: kids, education and volunteers all into one job. These
are three things I strongly believe in,” she said.
Megan also expressed her
excitement for the versatility
of her new position. “I love
that each day is different; that
makes it exciting! I never know
what tomorrow will bring,”
she said.
The Collaboration would like
to express, again, its excitement for Megan’s arrival. If
you would like to welcome her,
or have any questions or comments, you can contact her at
[email protected].
edu or (651) 523-2483 or visit
her at Hancock or Hamline!
Whitney Klein
Earth Day
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Megan Anderson has many duties on both sides of Snelling Ave, including working with fellow Collaboration members (left) and leading “In the Mix” trainings (right).
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Spring 2008
Celebrate Earth Day with the Collaboration!
April 25, Old Main Mall, Hamline University
Glynis Grostephan
Hancock students stand in line with sno-cones and smiles at 1998 Earth Day Festival at Hamline, the first year Hancock and the university paired for the festival.
By Glynis Grostephan, Terrance Ollie-Forliti and Amy
Proefrock
Hancock Student Advisor
Hancock Student Editors
I
t’s back!!! After a one-year hiatus, the 10th Earth Day
Festival will be held April 25, 2008 on Old Main Lawn
from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Our last Earth Day Festival was in 2006. Even though it was chilly, we still had fun.
Earth Day - April 22 - was proclaimed a holiday in 1970
and marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement. Over 20 million people participated
in the first Earth Day in the U.S. Fast forward to Earth
Day 2007: an estimated one billion people participated in
activities all over the planet! Earth Day is the only event
celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all
backgrounds, faiths and nationalities.
Our Earth Day Festival began in 1998 with a collaboration
of three Hamline University Student Congress members
and the Gifted Services teacher, Glynis Grostephan. The
vision was to promote the collaboration between Hancock
and Hamline and to provide a service-learning opportunity
for students and faculty to become environmentally responsible citizens. This year’s vision is to increase participation by Hamline students and staff in providing displays
or games that highlight environmental issues or concepts,
and to showcase the Hancock-Hamline Collaboration at the
Earth Day Festival.
Everyone is invited to participate in the hands-on activities. There are interesting facts at every booth and every
game teaches you something about the 5 R’s: “Reduce, Reuse, React, Reject, and Recycle.” Everyone who attends will
get a free sno-cone!
If you would like to get involved in this year’s Earth Day
Festival, please contact Glynis Grostephan at 651-2938715 or via e-mail at [email protected], or contact Megan Anderson at 651-523-2483 or manderson43@
hamline.edu.
Thank you to the following sponsors
of this year’s Earth Day Festival: Saint
Paul Public Schools Community Education Service-Learning Program/Community Power Grant and Hancock-Hamline
University Collaborative Mini-Grant.
A Look at Earth Day Through the Years
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Anderson and I just completed
my first month as the
Coordinator for the HancockHamline Collaboration. I am
very excited to be a part of the
Collaboration! Previously, I was
a preschool teacher and I also
volunteered for AmeriCorps,
where I tutored at a dualimmersion magnet school on the
West Side of St. Paul.
Since my first day with the Collaboration, things have been quite
eventful. On my first day on the job the 5th grade mock trials
were taking place; this was a great introduction to the Grade Level
Departmental Pairings. I can’t wait to see the other pairings in action!
A few activities to look for within the Collaboration are the 6thgraders lobbing to end homelessness, kindergarten campus tours, the
3rd-grade’s fence project and the Earth Day Festival.
I would love to meet you and hear ideas for the future of the
Collaboration. You can contact me at [email protected] or
651-523-2483.
Spring 2008
Hancock Teachers Participate in Science Days
By Mary Hedenstrom and
Peggy Knapp
Hancock Science Associate
Hamline CGEE
F
or seven days in December, Hancock teachers
participated in Science
Days, studying snow, levers,
electricity and other science
basics. Meeting in K-6 grade
level teams with Peggy Knapp,
Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE)
Hamline University, Hancock
teachers experienced how science inquiry works in elemen-
tary classrooms.
Science Days were designed
to present the MCAII Science test to all teachers, to give
teachers an opportunity to
conduct an inquiry and to have
a chance to plan a science writing component for the gradelevel team.
Peggy led each of the teacher
groups in hands-on inquiry experiences in their grade level’s
content area. Teachers learned
to make detailed observations,
designed and conducted a science investigation based on
their observations, presented
their findings and wrote testable science questions.
The experience deepened
their understanding of science
inquiry teaching and learning
methods. Many teachers expressed their appreciation for
Peggy and her inspirational
teaching style.
Inquiry is an important component of the MCAII Science
test. The test is an online test,
the only one of its type in the
nation. Students in grades 5, 8
and 11 will take the test for the
first time in Spring 2008.
On the Issues: 2008 Elections
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Soua Thao and Sabrina Yang ask: What issues should be the main focus
for the candidates in the November elections?
Your Answers:
Our Answers:
The answers below are just a few of the
many answers we received. Overall, the most
popular answers were the war in Iraq, education, affordable health care, and natural
disasters.
“The environment, war in Iraq, and health insurance”
–Mary, Hancock Secretary
“Environment” –Kaleenah, 2nd grade
“Global warming, natural disasters,
education, taxes, war, health care,
homelessness, and crime” –Karen,
5th grade
Karen
“Affordable health care for everyone” –Mr. Lein, 6th grade teacher
“Stop global warming, pollution,
homelessness, war in Iraq” Sey, 6th
grade
“The war in Iraq, health insurance,
New Orleans, and minimum wage”
–Angie, Hamline senior
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After polling our
schoolmates, we decided to sit down and
answer the question
ourselves. Obviously,
there are no right or wrong answers to this
question. Still, we wanted to provide our
take on the most important issues for the
November elections.
Soua’s important issues:
• The war in Iraq, because a lot of our people
are being killed
• Homelessness, because the homeless people
are cold in the winter and they are also killed
Sabrina’s important issues:
• The war in Iraq, because we need to end it to
bring peace between the two countries and
bring home our soldiers
• Education, because we need more money to
pay our school taxes, lunch money and field
trips
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Paired Up continued from page 1
perform productions for the
Hancock students.
Second-graders are paired
with the sociology department.
Since the second graders focus
on community, this collaboration fits perfectly with their curriculum. As a part of this pairing, second-graders learn about
the neighborhood by focusing
on making and using maps.
Third-grade classrooms are
paired with Hamline’s art department. Together, Hancock
third graders and Hamline art
students create temporary public art for the fence located behind Hancock.
Hancock’s 4th-graders pair up
with the education department
to work on social studies curriculum. The students discuss
families from a global perspective, as well as some Minnesota
curriculum.
Skipping the 5th-grade pairing
(which is the feature of this article), we reach the 6th-graders,
who are paired with the Hamline Admission Office. The admissions office puts together
events and activities that give
students a good look at college
life, as well as what it will take to
get there after graduating from
“I learned it was a hard
job to be a lawyer.”
-Amary
Hancock. These activities in- learn the ropes of courtroom
clude campus tours, class visits proceedings.
and reflection.
Hancock students go over to
The science classroom at Han- the Hamline Law School and
cock is paired with Hamline’s assume the roles of judges, atCenter for Global Environ- torneys, witnesses, jury memmental Education. This pair- bers and bailiffs. Students learn
ing created the Science Garden a lot about what goes on in the
at Hancock, which
courtroom
has been a mainstay
“It was a wonderful during a trial.
of both the HanWhen the trial
experience.”
cock science curricstarts, there
–Ms. Saari
ulum and the work
are four peoof Hamline’s Cenple around to
ter for Global Environmental help. One is the judge (a real
Education. Both work each year lawyer affiliated with Hamline
in many ways to help the garden Law School), who sits between
grow.
the two student judges. The
Finally, we return to the 5th- three others help the defense
grade pairing with the Hamline and prosecution to try to win
Law School. Each year they their case.
work together to prepare for a
Before going to Mock Trial,
mock trial, with a new case each the students had to prepare.
year. In this pairing, the Ham- The attorneys had to prepare
line Law staff and students by writing questions for the witwork with the fifth graders to nesses and practicing their lines.
The witnesses had to know how
they were going to answer the
attorneys’ questions. The witnesses and the attorneys partnered up to practice asking and
answering questions. Hamline
Law students helped the Hancock students learn their lines.
Each fifth grader had a different part and had to know
exactly what to do once he or
she got to the courtroom. The
attorneys, for example, in addition to asking questions of the
witnesses, had to go up to the
front of the courtroom to present the evidence to the judge
and the jury, .
Overall, everyone put a lot
of work into the trial, and it
turned out very well. Everyone
involved seemed to really enjoy
the experience.
Hancock 5th-grade students play many roles in the Hamline Law courtroom, including jury, bailiff, and sketch artist.
Snelling Connection Contacts:
Editor: Whitney Klein, Collaboration Assistant, Hamline University
student
[email protected]
Hamline Liaison: David Hudson, Hamline University English Dept.
[email protected] 651-523-2893
Hancock Liaison: Craig Anderson, Hancock/Hamline University
Collaborative Magnet School
[email protected] 651-292-3499
Hancock Student Advisor: Glynis Grostephan, Hancock/Hamline
University Collaborative Magnet School
[email protected] 651-293-8715
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