April 2 is celebrated as International Children’s Book Day, in honor of beloved author Hans Christian Andersen. Ahead of the yearly observance, our Corona Head Start classrooms organized a book fair that promoted the Children’s Book Day mission of instilling in children an enduring love of reading.

As a child, Aliyah attended The Child Center’s COMPASS afterschool program at P.S. 56 in Richmond Hill, Queens. She now serves as program director at our COMPASS afterschool program at P.S. 273, also in Richmond Hill.

Elm Tree Elementary students in Corona, Queens, engaged in Civics Week, March 10-14. The week consisted of daily classroom conversations on the importance of civics and the sharing of resources by fourth grade teacher Ms. Haynes. It also included voting! Three proposed projects were chosen by Elm Tree’s Chippy All Stars (student council) and shared with all.