Mentor Mondays
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors,
Welcome to Mentor Mondays!
We will use this space to share program updates, online activities, session planning ideas, and positive stories. Please check back periodically for new posts and to share your thoughts in the comment section below.
As always – Thank you for volunteering and sharing the gift of reading with an elementary student. – Vicki
Mentor Monday March 6, 2023
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! Welcome to March Mentor Monday! Thank you for volunteering this year. Thank you for sharing your time and talents, for being patient and flexible, and for inspiring the
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Mentor Monday June 20, 2022
Mentor Monday, June 20, 2022 Happy Summer Oasis Reading Mentors! Thank you to all who volunteered this last year, either in person or online. The principals and teachers have shared in their
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Mentor Monday, December 20, 2021
Season's Greetings! Let's end this year and begin the next year with a big Thank You! Thank you for volunteering to make a difference in the life and literacy of the students we support.
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Mentor Monday, October 18, 2021
Greetings Volunteers! We Are Back! What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, we slowed down and regrouped due to Covid. We pivoted our program delivery to online mentoring which was a
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Mentor Monday, September 20, 2021
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! Welcome to Mentor Monday – September 2021 Version. Welcome to all 140 of our returning volunteers and welcome to 51 new recruits! For those volunteers still on the team
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Mentor Monday – June 21
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! Happy summer and Happy Mentor Monday! Thank YOU! Thank you, thank You to all of you who mentored online this last year. I know it was a challenge, but
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Mentor Monday, April 19, 2021
Greetings Oasis Volunteers! Welcome to our April Mentor Monday - simply loaded with humor, ideas, music and "profound" thoughts. Many have asked about these final weeks of school. I wish I had
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Mentor Monday – February22
Greetings ABQ Oasis Volunteer Reading Mentors! Welcome to February 2021 Mentor Monday. February has been a busy time with new recruits, returning volunteers, technology training, schools requesting more volunteers and of
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Mentor Monday – January 18
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! This week, rather than a lot of links, I thought I would simply share some thoughts – address the elephant in the room so to speak. We know
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Mentor Monday – December 7
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! Welcome to our December 2020 Mentor Monday. I am excited to share that we are mentoring students online and yes, it is working! We started with Lew Wallace ES in
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Mentor Monday – October 5th
Greetings and Happy Autumn to all of You! It's balloon fiesta time here in Albuquerque and I am thrilled to see balloons up in the air. We started the week
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September Mentor Monday
Greetings! Welcome to the September Mentor Monday. My friends, each day brings us just a little closer to volunteering with students this year. Here is the update. We are currently processing the
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Mentor Monday, August 3
Greetings! Welcome to the August version of Mentor Mondays. It is amazing how fast the summer has sped by and I continue to marvel at how different our tutoring will look this year. July
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Mentor Monday – July 6th
Greetings Oasis Volunteers! Welcome back to Mentor Monday. I'll begin by saying, "I Miss You!" I miss you - I miss your stories, I miss your smiles, and I know you miss
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Mentor Monday June 1, 2020
Welcome to Mentor Monday! Thinking ahead - choosing good books for your student! What is a good book? A recent Reading is Fundamental guide states "a
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Mentor Monday, May 18, 2020
Greetings and Happy Mentor Monday! This week, I have continued with light and joyful links. I maintain that there is enough serious news available to us everywhere, so I need not forward that information.
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Mentor Monday, May 11, 2020
Greetings and Happy Monday, or Tuesday or Wednesday! Thank you for taking a few minutes and clicking our link to Mentor Monday! This week is a quick thank You to all of our volunteers
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Mentor Monday May 4
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! Happy Mentor Monday, May 4th to you and I hope this communication finds you well and smiling. The offering for this week includes a little silliness, a little beauty and
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Mentor Monday April 27
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! I thank you for laughing and learning along with me on this different form of communication – Vlogging - it is strange and definitely comical. Each new attempt at vlogging
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Mentor Monday 4-20
Happy Monday Oasis Reading Mentors! I'm back! I hope this finds each of you well and in the company of good books. Speaking of good books, please hold on to any Oasis
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Mentor Mondays April 13, 2020
Greetings Oasis Reading Mentors! Welcome to our first Monday Mentor blog from the secluded confines of my living room. We are currently bombarded with news on COVID-19, so I will not be sharing
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