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10 Benefits of Learning a Second Language | Lead with Languages

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10 Benefits of Learning a Second Language | Lead with Languages In today’s increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, the benefits of learning a second language is vital. Learn more today.

Carnation Revolution - Wikipedia

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Carnation Revolution - Wikipedia The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril), was initially a 25 April 1974 military coup in Lisbon which overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.[1] The revolution began as a coup organised by the Armed Forces Movement (P...

Additional photos from the Valentine’s Day Dance...enjoy.

The pictures say it all! Last night’s Valentine’s Day Dance at Venue 131 was a magical night full of love and joy...simply stated, it was a success. The support we received yesterday was certainly a wonderful first step in redefining our school’s mission to offer and provide students with the joys and wonders of a second language through the use and assistance of technology.

The School would like to thank of all the family and guests who took the time out of their special evening to share it with us and celebrate a night of love. It would not and could not have been as fun without you.

If we havent said it enough, we would like to thank the following: the Kitsilis family, Angelo’s Palace of Pizza/Venue 131, their employees and helpers for the wonderful food, service and support they provided us; the sponsors who gave generously to our cause; DJ Mix Master Jay (Jason Martins) for spinning the hits all night long; Alex Cardosa, Cristina Santos and Arianne Tanasio for thinking of this event and putting in all the time, energy and effort to make it happen; and Jessica Guerra for her assistance decorating the event and taking the wonderful pictures below that memorialized last night’s wonderful event.

Lastly, please continue to follow us as we continue to reinvigorate and transform our school in the days, weeks and months ahead. Until then, we leave you with the wonderful images from last night.

Thank you

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone...May love and joy fill your day. If you are interested in attending our event some tickets are still available but they have been going fast over the past week so please don’t hesitate. Please feel free to contact Angelo’s Palace of Pizza (728-3340) to reserve your spot!

In addition, we would like to send out a special thank you to all our generous cash donors. Non-profits/our school rely upon such support and we want to extend our deepest and sincere appreciation to all of you. The supporters are as follows:

Joao Pacheco, Re/Max/realtor
David Serpa, Coldwell Banker/realtor
Apollo Auto Sales
Jorge’s Auto Body
Accurate Auto Center, Inc
Frank Jacinto, CPA
Steingold Volvo

Once again, the school THANKS YOU.

In addition, the school would like to thank one more gift donor to our raffle. THANK YOU Foxy Creations for your gift certificate...I am sure some lucky winner will enjoy this prize! We would also like to thank you for the beautiful boards and designs you provided to the event.

An event would not be complete without music! We want to thank DJ Mix Master Jay for his wonderful donation of time and music to the event. Your support will certainly bring joy and happiness to all the event goers this evening. THANK YOU Jay Martins!

Lastly, but certainly not least, another HUGE shout out to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza and Venue 131 for their fabulous AND gracious donation, supply of food, staff and space. You folks, along with your staff, have gone above and beyond what the school could have hoped for...not enough wonderful things could be said about you, your management (Kayla and Sara) and the rest of your staff... Although not a member of the Angelo Palace of Pizza, a thank you should also go out to Cristina Santos for her efforts and dedication to the dance. THANK YOU!

With lots of love and warmth to all of you today,
The School Committee

Double feature today! The school would like to thank Sea Smith Candle Company for their specialty made assortment of candle package. Another wonderful gift on Valentine’s Day. The school thanks you for your support and generosity?

See you all there!

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/2020 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI). 🎶❤️💃

One day to go and we still have more raffle prizes!!!

The school would like to thank ForeCourt (44 Cray Street, Cumberland, RI) for their wonderful donation to our event. Tennis is a great sport for everyone and it can be played year round so why not get started with a free tennis lesson at ForeCourt! Once again, thank you ForeCourt for supporting our cause.

Call Angelo’s Palace of Pizza (401-728-3340) for tickets and try your luck at all the wonderful raffle prizes that will be auctioned off tomorrow!! See you all there 😃

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/20 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Me don Road, Cumberland, RI)🎶💃❤️

Today, the school would like to thank Valley Falls Flower Shop (244 Broad Street, Cumberland, RI) for the wonderful donation to our Valentine’s Day Dance. A dozen roses is certainly appropriate for this event! Thank you Valley Falls Flower Shop for your support.

Two days to go...call Angelo’s Palace of Pizza for tickets (401-728-3340)!

Valentine’s Day Dance/ 2/14/2020 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI)❤️🎶💃

Happy Tuesday! The school would like to thank Apollo Auto Sales (625 Broad Street, Cumberland, RI) for their car conditioning gift certificate and generous cash contribution to the school’s technology fund drive. Your wonderful support is greatly appreciated and we thank you Apollo Auto Sales!

Tickets are still available...Please call Angelo’s Palace of Pizza to purchase your tickets and support the school!

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/20 between 5:30 - 9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI)🎶💃❤️

The school would like to thank Central Avenue Bakery for their donation to our upcoming raffle at the Valentine’s Day Dance. Your support is appreciated and we thank you.

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/2020 between 5:30 - 9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI 02864)
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Happy Friday! Ok kid soccer fans, who is your favorite player? Ronaldo, of course! Tanasio Law has donated a Ronaldo Juventus jersey for the upcoming Valentine’s Day raffle...Get your tickets!The school would like to thank Tanasio Law for its support.

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/20 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI)

With a little more than a week to go, the donor support keeps on coming. Today, the school would like to thank Dr, Cruz and SkinPros (1287 North Main Street, Providence, RI, 175 Nate Whipple Highway, Cumberland, RI and 29 Powell Avenue, Newport, RI) for their wonderful dermatological products and skin care. Who can’t use these wonderful products! Once again, thank you Dr. Cruz and SkinPros for your support.

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/20 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI) 💃❤️🎶

Angelo’s Palace of Pizza has been one, if not the most, generous supporters to our cause. The graciousness is only surpassed by the quality of their food and excellent service. The school would like to send out the biggest thank you to the Kitsilis Family and Angelo’s Palace of Pizza for their gift certificate donation, use of Venue 131, food for the upcoming Valentine’s Day Party and all the other wonderful support and friendship they have provided the school over this past year.

From all of us (school committee, teachers, students and parents) to you - THANK YOU!

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/2020 between 5:30 - 9pm at Venue 132 (next to Angelo’s Palace of Pizza, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI) 💃❤️🎶

New week, new prize...Today we would like to thank Roger’s Ace Hardware (159 Broad Street, Cumberland, RI) for their generous donation to our Valentine’s Dance. With spring right around the corner these two items will surely be handy! Once again, thank you Roger’s Ave Hardware for your support.

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/2020 between 5:30-9 at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Pizza Palace, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI) 💃❤️🎶

Happy Sunday! The Valentine’s Day auction item of the day is an adult gift for the ladies from Sassafras Hair Salon )located at 2390 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI)...surely to be a hit for all the attending females. Thank you Sassafras Hair Salon for your support and generous donation (hair products and gift certificate)!

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/2020 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Pizza Palace, 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI) 💃❤️🎶

It’s the weekend but prizes keep on coming...Tanasio Realty has donated a Fitbit for kids for the Valentine’s Day raffle! Thank you Tanasio Realty for your support.

ONLY 2 weeks left!! Come on out and have some family fun (music provided by DJ Jay Martins, co****le, photobooth, raffle and 50/50!)...tickets still available.

Valentine’s Day Dance: 2/14/20 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Pizza Palace - 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI) ❤️💃🎶

More technology up for grabs at the Valentine’s Day raffle! We thank the accounting firm of Frank Jacinto, CPA and Associates (15 Martin Street, Cumberland, RI) for their gracious gift AND monetary donation toward the school’s technology fund drive. We now have a his & hers Fire HD tablet for some lucky children. Once again, thank you Frank Jacinto, CPA & Associates for your support.

Happy Friday to all 😃

Valantine’s Day Dance: 2/14/20 between 5:30-9pm at Venue 131 (next door to Angelo’s Pizza Palace - 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI) ❤️💃🎶

The donor support for the upcoming school’s Valentine’s Day dance raffle continues...today we thank the Miller Lung Dental Group (288 Highland Avenue, Attleboro, MA) for their wonderful prize package...a wonderful smile says it all!

Thank you Miller Lung Dental Group for your contribution.

Valentine’s Day Dance at Venue 131 on 2/14/2020 between 5:30-9pm (next door to Angelo’s Pizza Palace - 131 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI) ❤️💃🎶

Who doesn’t like pizza?! The proprietors of Dominos Pizza at 250 Mendon Road, Cumberland, RI have graciously donated a Party Pack gift certificate (four large pizzas, three twists , Two 2 liter sodas and two brownies) for our upcoming school raffle on Valentine’s Day. A great deal for any family...thank you Dominos!

Call Angelo’s Pizza Palace (728-3340) to reserve your tickets to this fun family night while they still last...

2/14/2020 from 5:30-9 at Venue 131, Cumberland, RI ❤️💃🎶

Today, the school would like to thank Achieve Pest and Wildlife Solutions for their generous gift to the Valentine’s Day raffle. The lucky winner will get a one year general pest service and one season of mosquito/tick treatment. What homeowner couldn’t use that?!

Thank you Achieve Pest and Wildlife Solutions for your support and contribution...

2/14/2020 from 5-9:30 at Venue 131, Cumberland, RI. ❤️ 💃 🎶

Happy Monday everyone...today the school would like to recognize and thank International Meat Market for their wonderful donation (3 gift cards) to our upcoming raffle at our Valentine’s Day dance at Venue 131.

We encourage everyone to support our donors as they provide wonderful service to our local communities.

See you all at the dance!! ❤️

We are so thankful to our local business community for their outpouring of support for our school’s first major fundraiser. Over the next few days, we will take time to thank all of these sponsors who donated items for our Valentine’s Day dance silent raffle taking place at Venue 131. Tickets are still available please contact us for more information.

Today we would like to thank Lawrence Agency - Nationwide Insurance for their generous donation of a Fire HD8 tablet!

States With The Largest Populations Of Portuguese Americans

Interesting fun facts...

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/states-with-the-largest-populations-of-portuguese-americans.html

States With The Largest Populations Of Portuguese Americans The state of California has the largest population of Portuguese Americans.

Portugal elected Best European Tourist Destination for 3rd. consecutive year by World Travel Awards

https://feelportugal.com/2019/06/09/portugal-elected-best-european-tourist-destination-for-3rd-consecutive-year-by-world-travel-awards

Portugal elected Best European Tourist Destination for 3rd. consecutive year by World Travel Awards Lisbon, 09 June 2019 (Lusa) - Portugal was chosen for the third consecutive year as the Best European Tourist Destination by the World Travel Awards, in a cerem

Soup Festival just started...come get your bowl of soup -open until 4pm or while supplies last!

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6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education

6 potential benefits of bilingual language learning. They are summarized below...full article attached.

1. Attention

It turns out that, in many ways, the real trick to speaking two languages consists in managing not to speak one of those languages at a given moment — which is fundamentally a feat of paying attention.

Saying "Goodbye" to mom and then "Guten tag" to your teacher, or managing to ask for a crayola roja instead of a red crayon, requires skills called "inhibition" and "task switching." These skills are subsets of an ability called executive function.

People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of executive function. Bilinguals can pay focused attention without being distracted and also improve in the ability to switch from one task to another.

2. Empathy

Young children being raised bilingual have to follow social cues to figure out which language to use with which person and in what setting. As a result, bilingual children as young as age 3 have demonstrated a head start on tests of perspective-taking and theory of mind — both of which are fundamental social and emotional skills.

3. Reading (English)

About 10 percent of students in the Portland, Ore., public schools are assigned by lottery to dual-language classrooms that offer instruction in Spanish, Japanese or Mandarin, alongside English.

Jennifer Steele at American University conducted a four-year, randomized trial and found that these dual-language students outperformed their peers in English-reading skills by a full school year's worth of learning by the end of middle school.

Such a large effect in a study this size is unusual, and Steele is currently conducting a flurry of follow-up studies to tease out the causality: Is this about a special program that attracted families who were more engaged? Or about the dual-language instruction itself?

"If it's just about moving the kids around," Steele says, "that's not as exciting as if it's a way of teaching that makes you smarter.” Steele suspects the latter. Because the effects are found in reading, not in math or science where there were few differences, she suggests that learning two languages makes students more aware of how language works in general, aka "metalinguistic awareness."

4. School performance and engagement.

Wayne Thomas and Virginia Collier, a husband and wife team of professors emeritus at George Mason University in Virginia, have spent the past 30 years collecting evidence on the benefits of bilingual education.

"Wayne came to our research with skepticism, thinking students ought to get instruction all day in English," says Virginia Collier. "Eight million student records later, we're convinced," Wayne Thomas chimes in.

In studies covering six states and 37 districts, they have found that, compared with students in English-only classrooms or in one-way immersion, dual-language students have somewhat higher test scores and also seem to be happier in school. Attendance is better, behavioral problems fewer, parent involvement higher.

5. Diversity and integration.

American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming more segregated by race and class. Dual-language programs can be an exception. Because they are composed of native English speakers deliberately placed together with recent immigrants, they tend to be more ethnically and socioeconomically balanced. And there is some evidence that this helps kids of all backgrounds gain comfort with diversity and different cultures.

Several of the researchers I talked with also pointed out that, in bilingual education, non-English-dominant students and their families tend to feel that their home language is heard and valued, compared with a classroom where the home language is left at the door in favor of English.

This can improve students' sense of belonging and increase parent involvement in their children's education, including behaviors like reading to children.

"Many parents fear their language is an obstacle, a problem, and if they abandon it their child will integrate better," says Antonella Sorace of the University of Edinburgh. "We tell them they're not doing their child a favor by giving up their language."

6. Protection against cognitive decline and dementia.

File this away as a very, very long-range payoff. Researchers have found that actively using two languages seems to have a protective effect against age-related dementia — perhaps relating to the changes in brain structure we talked about earlier.

Specifically, among patients with Alzheimer's in a Canadian study, a group of bilingual adults performed on par with a group of monolingual adults in terms of cognitive tests and daily functioning. But when researchers looked at the two groups' brains, they found evidence of brain atrophy that was five to seven years more advanced in the bilingual group. In other words, the adults who spoke two languages were carrying on longer at a higher level despite greater degrees of damage.

6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education Kids are showing reading gains in dual-language classrooms. There may be underlying brain advantages at work.

There is nothing like a warm bowl of soup this time of year...or 2...or maybe 5! All are welcome to the Soup Festival next Sunday (Jan 12th)...$7.00 at the door. Music, soup and fun -not a bad way to spend a winter afternoon!

We hope to see you all there...and don’t forget to visit our table 🙂

This gorgeous country is the No. 1 place to retire abroad — and you can do it on just $2,200 a month

Viva Portugal!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-gorgeous-country-is-the-no-1-place-to-retire-abroad-and-you-can-do-it-on-just-2200-a-month-2020-01-02?mod=home-page

This gorgeous country is the No. 1 place to retire abroad — and you can do it on just $2,200 a month International Living is out with its list of the best places to retire abroad

Wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous Happy New!

5 Facts About the Portuguese Language That Might Surprise You

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5 Facts About the Portuguese Language That Might Surprise You How much do you know about the Portuguese language? Here are 5 facts that might surprise you.