Middletown Kindergarteners Master ABCs with Handmade Wall Charts

Kindergarteners in all twenty of Middletown's elementary schools are getting to be quite proficient with their ABCs. Every one of the kindergarten classes now have handmade ABC Wall Charts hanging in their classrooms. All the charts were delivered to them by the end of February. The women who delivered the charts were Sharon Sheedy and Elizabeth Wiese.

The charts are the handiwork of a group of retired women from The Church of the Holy Trinity on Main Street and the Middletown community. The group was started on this project fifty plus years ago by a church parishioner named Anne Ross. She is 105 years old but still leads the group, The House of Talents, in making the charts. The earnings from selling the charts help with church expenses and outreach projects.

The group sells many charts not only locally but to people all over the world who give them to school classes or young relatives. So many people have sent messages back to the group about the positive response of the children and how the charts help them learn their ABC's.

Delivering the Wall Charts to all the kindergarten classes in Middletown brought the project full circle in honoring Anne Ross, the creator, on her 105th birthday.

For more information about the history of the charts and how to order one, go to www.holytrinityct.org.