P.C. Schools celebrate literacy with World Read Aloud Day
February 14, 2024 at 11:31 p.m.
Fallen Jean-Baptiste, the director of school age programs at the Carver Center, animatedly reads Richard Scarry’s “Busy, Busy World” to Cristina Alampi and Jennifer Mooney’s second-grade class at John F. Kennedy Elementary School. Guest readers visited classrooms across the Port Chester School District to celebrate World Read Aloud Day on Wednesday, Feb. 7. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Guiliana Muñoz, a fourth-grade student at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, poses with the script she wrote, “The Show: A Story About Friendship,” on Wednesday, Feb. 7. Her script was performed in front of her fellow students in the school gym for World Read Aloud Day. Now an Eldredge Street resident, her family immigrated from Ecuador in October 2022. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Judy Diaz (left), principal of John F. Kennedy Elementary School, performs in “The Show: A Story About Friendship,” with Assistant Principal Jennifer Mundo acting as one of her co-stars. Their roles are Piggy and Elephant, respectively. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Port Chester High School varsity cheerleaders Amy Navas (left) and Elizabeth Magana read “El Tesoro del Tiburón” by Nyno Vargas to Veronica Caseres’ first-grade dual language class at John F. Kennedy Elementary School. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Felix Santos (right), a student at Lehman College, reads Chris Van Dusen’s “If I Built a House” to Mirjana Ayala’s second-grade class at Edison Elementary School. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Barbara Terracciano shows Axel Vasquez a page from Alexandra Penfold’s book “All Are Welcome.” A retired teacher from the school, Terracciano served as the guest reader for Erica Rice’s third-grade Edison Elementary School class. As she read to the students, Rice said: “You can tell she misses this.” (David Tapia/Westmore News)
Georgina Diaz Luz (right), a fourth-grade dual language teacher at Edison Elementary School, invited Susana Reséndiz, a dual language teacher at Colegio Federico Froebel in Mexico City, to read for her class via Zoom. (David Tapia/Westmore News)
