By Marsha Guerrier | Executive Director
We are so excited to announce that we have purchased the storybook What It Means to Be Kind by Rana DiOrio, pictured here, to provide to 100 students this year. The book follows a girl in a red hat as she has the courage to be kind to a new student and also displays the acts of kindness from other community members. The book goes over various scenarios such how a kid with a disability feels about how people are treating him.
We are currently scheduled to visit 2 schools and 2 childcare facilities in the Nassau County school districts. Both school and childcare visits are scheduled for the second week of June. Each student will be given the book so that they incorporate it into their summer reading with the family. The first school we will visit is the Uniondale School District to an inclusion 1st grade class. The second visit will be in the Valley Stream School District to an inclusion 4th grade class. We will continue to work with the school districts on Long Island to reach more children. Both childcare facilites are in Valley Stream, NY with Pre-K children.
Inclusion classrooms and facilities involves providing children with disabilities access to a wide range of learning opportunities, activities, settings, materials, and environments. Early childhood inclusion embodies the values, policies, and practices that support the right of every infant and young child and his or her family, regardless of ability to participate in a broad range of activities and contexts as full members of families, communities, and society. The desired results of the reading program is for children with and without disabilities to have a sense of belonging, positive social relationships and friendships that will allow them to excel to reach their full potential.
Thank you for supporting our project, it is because of donors like you we are able to have such impactful projects in our community. We ask that you continue your support by sharing our project with your network and consider to continue funding our project. With your recent donation we have been able to secure Storytime for an additional 8 schools, which will reach over 300 children. Our project will bring us to the Howell Road Elementary School this spring, we are currently working with additional schools to bring the program to their children early spring.
Again, thank you and I look forward to sharing more stories from our project team in the future.
Warm Regards,
Marsha Guerrier
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