PHOTOS: Author Grace Lin visits Medfield's Memorial School

As part of Memorial School's Read Across America program, Children's Author, Grace Lin visited Memorial School this week.

Students at Memorial School welcomed children's author, Grace Lin, to their school on Monday and Tuesday and enjoyed her visit as part of the school's participation in Read Across America's program.  Lin met in small groups with all first grade students on Monday, and all Kindergarten students on Tuesday. She explained the steps of having a book published and read "The Ugly Vegetables" to them. She also taught the first graders how to draw the dog from her book, "The Year of the Dog." About Grace Lin: Grace Lin's bio, from her website, www.gracelin.com.  Grace Lin grew up in Upstate New York with her parents and two sisters. While the other sisters became scientists, Grace became an artist. Surprisingly  enough, being an artist was not …

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PHOTOS: Memorial School Celebrates Read Across America

National program celebrated in Medfield last week as students from Memorial School participated in several literacy events.

The pre-schoolers, kindergarteners and first grade students at Memorial School celebrated reading last week with an assembly, community readers, and a visit from the Cat in the Hat as part of the national Read Across America literacy program. This past Wednesday, a Read Across America assembly was held to kick off the celebration. On Thursday, "Community Readers," including Medfield Chief of Police Chief Robert E. Meaney Jr.; Fire Chief William Kingsbury; Superintendent of Schools, Bob Magure; Medfield High School principal, Robert Parga; Blake Middle School principal, Nat Vaughn; Selectmen, Ann Thompson, Osler Peterson and Mark Fisher; Medfield librarian, Ann Russo; Park Street Books owner, Jim James; Rockland Trust Bank manager, Cheryl O…

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