Assistance League of San Jose

Readers Are Leaders volunteers dropped off summer reading books to every classroom in the program. That's 10 schools, 49 classrooms and over 3,000 books!📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙

Each student received 3 books📚 to take home at the end of the school year: 🐦‍⬛'Animals in the City' by Beth Carney, 🦈'Clark the Shark and the School Sing' by author Bruce Hale and illustrator Guy Francis and 🛴'Reina Ramos Tour Guide' by Emma Otheguy and illustrator Andrés Landazábal.

Reading at home during the summer helps students retain their all-important reading skills.

"Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life." ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg🗝️



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It's estimated that over 27,000 people 👬👫 in need are served by our volunteers in the San Jose area. Whether they're delivering school uniforms 🫃🏽 to under-served children, providing food 🥙 🥫 and clothing 👖👕 to those in need, or working with children in the schools in various literacy 📚programs, our volunteers are transforming lives and strengthening our community.

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Family Supportive Housing is one of 3 shelters 🏠 where our AL of San Jose volunteers offer services for our communities in need.🎗️

"Planting a Garden" 🪏🪴 is one of 4 enrichment programs that we provide to .

The attending families learn about the life cycle from seedling 🌱 to full plant 🪴by listening to a story 📖 with wonderful photos and 2 fun activities sequencing the photos.

The children excitedly plant seeds in a starter cup to keep in their home window watch the life cycle in action. 🌱-🌿-🎍

The day ends up with the children planting vegetable 🥗 and flower 🌼 plants in a large planter box. They love digging 🪏the holes, watering the plants and getting their hands dirty.

What pride they feel when watching their plants grow 🫛 and eating their products.🥗

📚 is our partner for one of our programs, Readers Are Leaders. 📖 They assist us with book selection and with tips on how to read to 2nd and 3rd graders. 👧👦 At our last meeting of the year, two representatives from the library spoke about our partnership 🫶🏽 and about other exciting programs that the library sponsors in San Jose.

The potluck lunch 🥙🥗 was a treat, and we also acknowledged some of our newer members. 👩‍❤️‍👩
We even managed to do some business! 📊

Check out www.alsj.org if you like volunteering and making new friends at the same time!