Tag: RuthK

  • Baggby’s – My favorite view of the Charlottesville Downtown Mall

    My favorite place for enjoying the Charlottesville Downtown Mall is the corner seat in the angled window in Baggby’s Gourmet Sandwiches.  From this seat  in the comfort of air conditioning one can see City Spaces, City Hall, the carousel, the Free Speech Monument, and the Pavilion – “people watching” at its best!  At the same…

  • Often it is the “teacher” leading a project-based learning program who learns the most!

    I learned how to blog as a JABA RSVP FISH volunteer. I had agreed to sponsor an after-school computer club at Jackson-Via Elementary School in Charlottesville and I wanted to focus on 21st-century skills. Since blogging is receiving high marks as an effective means for teaching reflective writing, I decided that that would be a…

  • Always wanted to visit India? Sarthak’s blog is the next best thing.

    Photographer and Adobe Fireworks Engineer Sarthak Singhal has a beautiful blog named Sarthak | Explore.  Travel … Adventure … which features photos of his native India along with photos from other places he has visited.  Reading through the comments on his site make you feel like you are part of the  local scene.  Take a…

  • Looking for a fun place to volunteer?

    Maybe Market Central is just the place for you! If you love the City Market and would like to help it find a permanent home, stop by the Market Central table in the non-profit section of the City Market. Hello, friends of the Charlottesville City Market – As we approach the summer season at the…

  • Creativity and Kindergarten – Lessons for Lifelong Learning

    Kindergarten used to be about play and stories and friends and sharing. More recently, it is about doing worksheets and preparing to take tests – i.e. it is becoming more like school. Maybe this is bad. Why can’t school be more like Kindergarten instead? Of course the next question I would like to pose, is…

  • FISH tutors are teaching kids to FISH

    “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”—Author unknown That is exactly what JABA’s FISH (Friends In Schools Helping) Program is all about. JABA (Jefferson Area Board for Aging), began the FISH Program as a way for seniors to…