Parker is proud to announce that sophomore Saroya Ornelas Pagnucci is the recipient of the Hershey Heartwarming Young Hero Grant!
The grant offers her the opportunity to create Children’s Literacy Kits for children who are homeless and part of the Chicago HOPES For Kids organization. Pagnucci is striving to combat educational inequity, which disproportionately affects low-income, minority children. She is seeking assistance with this endeavor and will be collecting literacy-related donations the week of April 25.
Phonics workbooks Letter recognition workbooks Early childhood to grade 2 reading, writing and comprehension workbooks Alphabet letters Letter flashcards Sight word flashcards Small rhyming games or puzzles Small consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) puzzles or games Small letter puzzles Fabric markers Mad Libs Highlights magazines
Other possibilities Small boxes of markers Small boxes of crayons Pencils Pipe cleaners Wiki Sticks Storycubes Story cards Mini Doodle Pros Bob books Early Reader books Picture books
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