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the national medal for Museum and
Library Services is the nation's highest

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honor for libraries and museums that are
serving their communities in exceptional

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ways Long Island children's museum
director Suzanne LeBlanc and community

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members Francisco and Ruth kada traveled
to Washington from Garden City New York

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to receive the national medal and spoke
to Y imls about how the museum impacts

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the community the Long Island children's
museum was founded by a group of parents

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who were really um concerned about
having a highquality children's museum

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they consciously called it Long Island
children's museum so that they were

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would consider they were serving the
whole all of Long Island but also from

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the beginning it was very important to
them to serve a broad range of people

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both culturally economically to be a
place a community Gathering Place where

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everyone could come together we were
looking around for a program where we

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can put our son and we found out about
hunos alinder in Long Island well the

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Long Island children's museum from its
beginning has had a commitment to be

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this community Gathering Place and to
serve a broad range of people and we

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believe that the kinds of programs that
we do for the community like hunto Sal

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Kinder make us a really important anchor
in the community it's ages of four years

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four years old uh one of the things is
that um they help the kids to um get

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ready for for a school and one of the
things that they learn how uh to write

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their names how to relate with other
kids how to cheer with them qutool

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Kinder uh runs primarily in the
summertime and we have 20 kids who come

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for a month every day and they have um
everything you would do in a preschool

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we send the buses to pick them up so
they learn how to leave home and on the

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bus right and uh we have a staff person
on the bus with them and they come into

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the museum they use the museum as a
classroom for every four or five

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children we have a teacher bilingual
teachers they help the kids and our own

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language and at the same time they're
teaching English and that's one of the

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Beautiful Things the parents come for
half a day a week part of what we do in

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the parents class and it's taught in
their language of origin is to um what's

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different about the school system here
what are the expectations here of you as

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a parent how to um help support their
children's

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education at the Museum we
learned uh first of all how to help our

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kids to do the homework we learned uh
the rules um how to do the homework how

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have the own place not bouncing around
just have one own place to do the

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homework uh we used to have Francisco
junor with us all the time until we go

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to sleep and we learned at hunto program
that uh he had to have time to go to

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sleep um we learned that have to go to
sleep at

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8:00 and uh how to treat them better how
to have patience with them which is very

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important it's the mission of all the
community programs is to really assist

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people in um whatever they need to be
more successful as parents in particular

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as families and as citizens of the world