Show #116:

Smile Train - Students at Westbrook Elementary School in West Milford are learning about tolerance and acceptance by getting involved in The Cleft Buddy Project. As part of a school-wide fundraiser for the Smile Train, an organization that provides surgeries to correct facial deformities, the children collected money and other items to donate to this and other worthy projects. This all took place on the 100th day of school - combining community service work with lessons about math.

Read Across America - Author Mary Higgins Clark is just one of the celebrities that will join in a national celebration of Read Across America - an annual event sponsored by the NEA and the NJEA. Ms. Clark will visit Roberge School in River Vale where her grandson attends. NJ Gov. Don DiFrancesco will read to students at Woodrow Wilson School in Clifton, and we'll also see how students at James Madison Primary School in Edison react when Saturn, a car dealership in North Brunswick, donates hundreds of books to the school.

Inventive Inventors - Fourth-graders at Richard L. Rice Elementary School in Marlton learn the power of invention. They are fostering an interest in the fields of math and science by learning about famous inventors, focusing on women and African American inventors.

Peer to Peer- Two intermediate schools in Westfield are examples of the successful statewide program aimed at reducing alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse. Sixth-graders at Edison and Roosevelt Intermediate schools explain how the program helps them develop leadership skills to combat peer and social pressure to use drugs.