Danny Kaye Elementary School

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Email: ps149k@gmail.com
Website: ps149dannykaye.com/
Location: 700 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone: 718-688-7620

Respect for All Week gives students and staff a chance to be better -- to mindfully practice treating others with an integrity and compassion that we hope to continue fostering all year. Celebrate this amazing week with "P.S. 149 Pride" wearing clothing that represent different characteristics.

It's 1939, and young Cassie Louise Lightfoot is picnicking with her family and friends on "tar beach" — the hot, black rooftop of her family's Harlem apartment. Cassie lays down and dreams that she is soaring above New York City — finding beauty in the views of the George Washington Bridge (which her father helped build) while also noting the signs of social injustice in the crowded city below. Click the picture below to be directed to the Read Aloud with Faith Ringgold

Akeelah, an 11-year-old girl living in South Los Angeles, discovers she has a talent for spelling, which she hopes will take her to the National Spelling Bee. Despite her mother's objections, Akeelah doesn't give up on her goal. She finds help in the form of a mysterious teacher, and along with overwhelming support from her community, Akeelah might just have what it takes to make her dream come true.