Our Spring 2025 Magazine
Reporters wrote about making good decisions.
Top Stories
Teachers talk gratitude
By Colegio Nueva Granada Healthy NewsWorks correspondents | Editor’s note: This article was...
What we learned about gratitude
International correspondents at Colegio Nueva Granada reflected on lessons they've learned about...
The many ways of showing gratitude
By Alicia Polo, Colegio Nueva Granada reporter | The wonderful thing about gratitude is that every...
Show gratitude to be positive
By Alicia Canela Rueda, Colegio Nueva Granada reporter| Showing gratitude is one of the most...
Get active for your health
By Penn Treaty reporters | The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that children and...
Being grateful is great
By DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal reporters | Say thank you, write a thoughtful note, offer...
Thirsty? Reach for a water bottle
By Adaire Fit Fish Reporters | The best drink to quench your thirst is water, said Ms. Kimberly...
Reporters enjoy healthy activities
By James Lowell Healthy Lion reporters | Most of Ms. Martin’s fourth-grade reporters work up a...
Kids Blog
Before bed
By Greyson, Alexander Adaire Fit Fish | About 10 minutes before I go to bed, I have a healthy...
Help with reading
By Korey, DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal | The last good decision I made was at home. My...
Value in school
By Jaleb, DePaul Catholic School Healthy Trailblazer Journal | The decisions you make can have an...
Getting good sleep
By Antonio, Alexander Adaire Fit Fish reporter | Sleep is important because if you don’t get...
Taking care
By Jayden, La Salle Academy Healthy News | Some ideas I will do to help my community is donate to...
Donate books
By Lezlyann, La Salle Academy Healthy News | Some ideas I have to help my community are donating...
Providing for others
By Cali, La Salle Academy Healthy News | I will buy food and clothing for the homeless, because...
Feeling proud
By Aurora, La Salle Academy Healthy News | I would like to go to my local hospital and tell the...
Did You Know?
What is a vaccine?
A vaccine is something that helps teach your body how to protect itself against different infections. A vaccine exposes your body to a very small piece of that virus or bacteria—not enough to make you sick, but enough to turn on your immune system to make antibodies. The antibodies protect you in case you’re exposed to that infection.
Why do I get sore after a shot?
You’re sore because the vaccine you got is activating your immune system. It can make you feel a little bit sore right in the area where you got the shot. Sometimes you can get redness, swelling, and it can hurt, but that is a sign that the vaccine is doing its job!
What is a booster shot?
A booster is another name for a vaccine shot. As you get older, the protection you get from an initial vaccine shot can decrease. The booster shot is another vaccine dose that reminds your body to make more antibodies for protection.
Talking To …
Trapeta B. Mayson
Ms. Mayson became a poet because she wanted to connect with other people. “Poems can lift up people who are not feeling good,” she says, and they are also a way to tell the truth. Ms. Mayson was the 2020–21 poet laureate of Philadelphia. It is an honor that recognizes a poet’s work. To become the poet laureate, you have to apply, and the competition is tough.
Baratunde Thurston
Your neighbors, friends, and relatives aren’t the only ones who are members of your community, Baratunde Thurston says. All other creatures belong to it, too. “What affects them affects us,” says Baratunde, who is a TV host, writer, podcaster, and producer. “We’re members of natural societies. … We should be good neighbors to each other. All of us.”
Student Gallery
These illustrations are by students St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral in Camden and MaST Community Charter School and Philadelphia Hebrew Public Charter School in Philadelphia.
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