New York BookPALS Read Across America Reading with Fatima Ptacek
Check out Fatima Ptacek (the voice of Dora the Explorer) at our New York BookPALS Read Across America Reading at PS 111! SAG-AFTRA performers.
Read More5th graders from PS 16 in Queens were directors for the day thanks to BookPAL Jeffrey Bennett!
The students from Mrs. Esposito’s 5th grade class at PS 16 in Queens traveled to the SAG-AFTRA offices last month. Jeffrey Bennett, a BookPALS volunteer and staff member at SAG-AFTRA, took the class where he reads regularly to his office. They were “directors for the day” in the SAG-AFTRA boardroom discussing how they might shoot a feature of their favorite book. Specific topics discussed were: story, location, cost and casting. One of the students asked Jeff what the maximum cost is to make a movie. Jeff responded that the sky is the...
Read More4th grade PencilPALS class at PS 255 rocks this year!
Our volunteer PencilPALS were treated to an array of international foods that students brought in to celebrate the end of year PencilPALS party at PS 255 in Brooklyn. Mrs. Kaplan and Mrs. Lesser’s 4th grade ICT class wrote letters to the adults monthly during the school year. As a cluminating activity, voice over actress and volunteer Barbara McCullough read aloud an excerpt from Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo and the group wrote/illustratded ten things that they learned about each other in the writing process. Thank you PS 255 for another wonderful year of letter...
Read MoreA Cat in Paris voice over actor visits PS 124 in Brooklyn!
Philippe Hartmann took time out of his busy schedule to read aloud to Mrs. Butler’s kindergarten class at PS 124 during their Parents As Reading Partners special event. Philippe, a volunteer for NY BookPALS, plays the role of Mr. Hulot in the animated feature A Cat in Paris currently showing in...
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