Credit: Anna Schiavone, Philip G. Vroom Community School
We used our funds to provide every kindergarten, second-, and third-grade student their own copy (to keep in their home library!) of the easy reader American Revolution book George Washington and the General’s Dog by Frank Murphy. (The Bayonne Education Foundation initially provided all first-grade students copies, and wanted to provide other grades with copies, but lacked the funding.) We also provided a stage show performance on April 23 at Bayonne High School for all elementary school students of Jack’s Adventure in American History by the traveling theater group Bright Star Theatre. We also cosponsored, with the Bayonne Historical Society, a lecture for adults on April 7 by Revolutionary War lecturer Joel Farkas called “Remember the Ladies: Women in the Time of the American Revolution.”
We got so many happy photos from teachers of students with their new books!
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