Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School District welcomed students and the Bellerose Village Mayor to speak at the board of education meeting on Dec. 12.
The meeting began with a presentation on the district’s Book of the Month Initiative. Both Floral Park-Bellerose School and John Lewis Childs School select a book each month that students read schoolwide. The texts often celebrate diversity, kindness and respect.
Five students from Floral Park-Bellerose School– Nicholas Faster, Lily Henderson, Jacob Kligman-Wiskoff, Casey Raleigh and Ryan Tinneny – spoke about the books they’ve read so far this school year. The students are from both Mrs. Goldberg’s fourth grade class and Ms. Flomer’s first grade class who meet monthly to read the Book of the Month as Buddy Classes. After reading December’s book, “The Smart Cookie,” the two classes wrote shape poems together, which they read aloud at the meeting.
Following the students’ presentation, Village of Bellerose Mayor Kenneth Moore spoke as part of the district’s Civil Service Series. Village of Bellerose Trustees Ann Marie Byrnes, Kate Dorry and Daniel Driscoll were also in attendance at the meeting.
