P.S. 119 Amersfort School of Social Awareness

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March 8th, 2010 | Category: Common Cents Penny Harvest, Community Service | Leave a comment

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January 27th, 2010 | Category: Awesome Events, Community Service, Haitian Relief Efforts | Leave a comment

As you all may have heard, the island of Haiti was devastated by a huge earthquake yesterday evening. The number of deaths related to this tragedy has reached close to 100,000 victims.
My school. P.S. 119 is located in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn. The area is also known as “Little Haiti”. Throughout the [...]

January 13th, 2010 | Category: Community Service | Comments (2)

Students are encouraged to help others with acts of caring, tolerance, and respect without any expectations in return.

January 6-20

Do an act of kindness and watch it gain momentum and multiply. We’re inspiring compassion by honoring a national hero and encouraging students to perform acts of caring, respect, and fairness. Help a neighbor with their groceries. [...]

January 12th, 2010 | Category: Community Service, The League | Comments (1)

OK, here’s the deal. Too many people watch a little too much TV. You should do something else. You can go on the computer or you can do sports outside. You could do study or talk with your friend. All I know is I don’t watch TV all the time. Sometimes after I’m done [...]

December 17th, 2009 | Category: Community Service, Creative Writing, Fifth Grade | Leave a comment

December 1st is World AIDS Day. As always, I post on this day thoughtfully. I’ve lived more than half my life with HIV. I will be fifty in March. A small miracle.
In Hebrew, the term mitzvah “has also come to express an act of human kindness. According to the teachings of Judaism, all moral laws [...]

December 1st, 2009 | Category: Community Service | Comments (2)

On a sunny Tuesday Mrs. Berretta walked into Class 2-107 and said, “Children take out your Writer’s Notebooks please.”
All of the children quickly reached into their desks, took out their notebooks and folded their hands on top of them. “Great! Last time we talked about planting seeds or story ideas and Diana told us a [...]

September 22nd, 2009 | Category: Citizenship, Community Service | Leave a comment

Our Visit from the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
More about Philodendrons at Wicked Plants Audio Tour: CLICK HERE
Read the following paragraph:

More than two thirds of the world’s plant species are found in the tropical rainforests: plants that provide shelter and food for rainforest animals as well as taking part in the gas exchanges which provide much [...]

June 21st, 2009 | Category: Community Arts Collaborations, Community Service, Fourth Grade, Horticulture, Mrs. Moloney, Ms.Smith, Science Education, Sustainability | Comments (1)

Today DMC came to our school.
It was fun having him today.
He talked about many things.
The things he talked about the most was education & life.
DMC said life is not fair or easy because he was adopted.
When he got a little bigger he went to go look for his birth mother.
RUN-DMC made Hip-Hop or “rapping” what [...]

June 18th, 2009 | Category: Awesome Events, Celebrity Guests, Citizenship, Community Service, Fifth Grade | Comments (1)