Learn Words From Context - Get Success in Reading - "Wavertree’s Return"

“…vocabulary knowledge is essential for success in reading. 

Students cannot understand what they read without understanding what most of the words mean. Decades of research have confirmed the important role that vocabulary plays in reading comprehension and in students’ overall academic success.” (Hiebert & Kamil, 2005)

Basia by Wavertree, September 24th, 2016!

As your child's first teacher: 

Take your child to the local events. 

Read fliers, posters, headboards and signs. 

Help your child to find new words and their meaning. 

Vocabulary which is learned in an active way stays with the child forever.

See Basia's last weekend big event:

Wavertree returns to the South Street Seaport

https://goo.gl/photos/Kh5LcorNP4hnxKM48

Historical Facts about Wavertree:

• Wavertree was built at Southampton, England in 1885 for the Liverpool R.W. Leyland & Company.
• She was named after the Wavertree district of that city.
• Wavertree was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. Today, she is the largest afloat.
• The ship was first employed to carry jute between eastern India (now Bangladesh) and Scotland.
• When less than two years old the ship entered the "tramp trades", taking cargoes anywhere in the world.
• In 1910, after sailing for a quarter century, the ship was dis-masted off Cape Horn and barely made it to the Falkland Islands. Rather than re-rigging the ship its owners sold it for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. Wavertree was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947. This ship was discovered in 1967 at the Riachuelo River in Buenos Aires by an American citizen working on a sand barge and acquired by the South StreetSeaport Museum in 1968.
• The ship was sent to the Arsenal Naval Buenos Aires for restoration. In 1969 after restoration was complete, the ship was towed to New York. The vessel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1978.
• Wavertree is an excellent example of the sort of ships one might have seen on any given day here at South Street, the “street of ships.”
• https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/visit/street-of-ships/wavertree/
• Wavertree returened to the South Street Seaport from restoration on September 24th, 2016!