“Thanks for helping!”
Uncle Willie Hearne
“Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen”
What Schools are Doing...
I would love to visit your school!
Here are a few ideas from some
of your neighborhood schools that might inspire you and students too!
Thank you for making a “positive difference” in our communities.
Neighborhoods Rule!
Plan Ahead and Make a Connection!
“Inviting an author creates literacy-rich experiences that contribute
to lifelong learning and make a lasting impression….”
Barry Warner – Rockland County Times
- Invite your local press to your author event!
- Have a Spaghetti Dinner
- Once-A-Month Food Drive Friday
- Plant A Tree
- Recycle sneakers / printer cartridges
- Save box tops and pull tabs
- Collect eyeglasses and school supplies for various causes.
- Write letters to a local senior citizens group and make friends for Bingo!
- Have a "lunch bunch" knit hats for the homeless/knit blankets for an animal shelter
- Have a clothes drive
- Clean up a park or playground
- Learn to play Bocce
Plant a garden at your school or in your
neighborhood
like Marcy from
"City Green"
(Coffee cans on window
sills work great too!)
Decorate the halls of your school!
Joseph Citta
Elementary turned their
school's hallways into the community map
from Grandpa's Corner Store
Host a fund raiser! - Delsea High School
students
raised $2100 for the Voorhees
Animal Shelter
Parkway School students
raised 50,000
pennies for Habitat for Humanity
“Inviting an author creates literacy-rich experiences that contribute to lifelong learning and make a lasting impression….” Barry Warner – Rockland County Times
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