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January 2006 – 4/2

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

January 6  - DELTA Program Application Deadline
Application must be sent to District 20 Office at 89th St. POSTMARKED on/before this date. No Exceptions.


January 9 – Bowling League returns each Monday.

 

January 10 – Eid Al-Adha


January 11 – 7:00 pm - CEC Meeting at PS 164
4211 14th Avenue  TOPIC: Special Education

January 16 – NO SCHOOL – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday.

 

January 20 – INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION

In the school lunchroom at 1:20 pm. Parents - come in your national costume and bring a dessert! Students will perform cultural dances and music.

 

January 23 – NEW YEAR SKATING PARTY

Skate from 6:00-8:30 at Kate Wollman Rink - see flier!

January 29 – Happy Chinese New Year!

 

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COOL SCHOOL WEB RESOURCES:

 

ÍThe Public Libraries of New York, Brooklyn and Queens have launched a new website to help NYC students in grades K-12 with their studies in every area of the NYC curriculum. It’s great – check it out! http://www.homeworknyc.org

 

Íhttp://www.nylearns.org/standards/index.asp for NYS standards and curriculum information for all grades.

 

Í NYS ELA/Math testing information and sample tests (grades 3-8) are available at:  http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/3-8/home.html

 

            DON’T FORGET!

NYS ELA (English Language Arts) TESTS:

Grades 3 & 5 : January 10 and 11

Grade 4 : January 10, 11 & 12th
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Volunteer of the Month

 

Let’s start the New Year by saying THANK YOU to Amina Asad – a great parent and a great supporter of PS 102.  Amina is an alumnus of PS 102 and as she lives on the block, she knows a lot about the school community and many teachers and students past and present.  Amina attends every PTA Executive Board Meeting and has worked faithfully on the Book Fair, Craft Fair, Plant Sale and other events since her son, Yazeed, now an eighth grader, entered first grade.  As a new PTA mom, she was recruited to run for Vice President her first year and after winning the election, served in this office a few years. She has worked as a Learning Leader and on the Alumni Committee, school pictures and this year she will chair the International Celebration on January 20th  (and I hope she will bring 4 pots of her delicious sage tea!) Although her daughter, Amira, is graduating this year, we will welcome her back in two years when her youngest, Janine, will enter Kindergarten and we certainly hope she will stay involved in-between! Amina urges all parents to show up at a PTA event or meeting and get involved. She would like to point out that parents with younger children are always welcome to bring them.  Thank you Amina J

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   Science Fair Projects are due in classrooms on        January 31st.  You may contact Mrs. Willie by writing a note or leaving a message at the office if you have questions. Display boards are available for sale ($5) in the lunchroom from 9-10 a.m.

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JANUARY QUOTE:

 

“The greatest wealth is health.”  ~Virgil

 

Now that the holidays are over….

Text Box: JANUARY BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Grade K: The Peace Book, by Todd Parr Grades 1-5: Teammates, by Peter Golenboc and Paul Bacon It’s time to think of exercising more and eating better in the New Year!  Visit the DOE Office of School Food and Nutrition Site for info on school lunch: www.opt-osfns.org/osfns and the Federal Government’s new Food Pyramid – www.mypyramid.gov for more information on nutritional recommendations. K and 1 teachers have been given Food Pyramid posters and fact sheets to send home.  Vegetable of the Month Recipes and other nutrition information sheets for parents are available in the HEALTH drawer in the Parent Information Table in the lobby. Your kids may enjoy this fun game too:
http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/mypyramidblastoff.html

 

Text Box: Resolutions can give your child a fresh start in 2006 Making New Year’s resolutions can put your child on track to doing better in the new year—both at home and in school. Follow these steps to help your child make resolutions: · Explain what New Year’s resolutions are—promises you make to yourself. · Ask your child what he’d like to accomplish in the New Year. What areas would he like to improve? Your child should come up with ideas to feel ownership in the resolution. · Avoid telling him what resolutions to make. You may want him to promise to keep his room clean. He may want to memorize statistics of his favorite sports players. · Guide him with suggestions related to learning and doing better in school. Perhaps he’s interested in learning a new skill—a musical instrument or a foreign language. · Encourage him to be realistic. It’s unlikely he’ll be able to give up video games for a week, or get an “A” on every test and assignment. But he can give up video games one day a week. And he can raise his grades. · Help him be specific. Doing better in school is too general. Paying attention in class, doing homework and reading every day are specific activities that lead to better grades. · Set up a way for your child to measure his progress. A chart or calendar on the wall will work. Reprinted with permission from the January 2006 issue of Parents make the difference!® (Elementary School Edition) newsletter. Copyright © 2006 The Parent Institute®, a division of NIS, Inc. Source: Gina Roberts-Grey, “New Years Kid Style—Resolutions kids can keep!” Rogue Valley Parent, www.roguevalleyparent.com/images/pdf/2004/12_2004.pdf.

Please see the school website for more articles in

English and Spanish from Parents make the difference! www.schools.nycenet.edu/region7/ps102/parentarticles

The January issue also features articles on spelling, talking and listening and embracing differences.

 

ADULT ESL CLASSES AT PS 102
September 2005 - May 2006

Beginners:    Monday 8:30-10:30

          Thursday 8:30-10:30 

 

Intermediate/Conversation:

                  Wednesday 9:00-12:30          

 

All PS 102 Parents and Caregivers are welcome! Classes are FREE and no application is required.

Call Margaret Sheri (347) 563-4586 for details.

 

 

 

 

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Contact Information

School Office: 718-748-7404 
Parent Coordinator: 347-563-4586, or email:

MElliotSheri@nycboe.net

School Web Site: http://schools.nycenet.edu/region7/ps102

PTA email: ps102pta@yahoo.com

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Text Box: CELEBRATING GRANDPARENTS! PS 102 will hold our first ever GRANDPARENTS DAY this April to celebrate the many ways grandparents enrich and support our school community. Please call or email Margaret Sheri if you are a parent or grandparent who has ideas to share or would like to attend a planning meeting to be held in late January.

IN THE COMMUNITY:

 

January 9 – Sign up for ESL Classes at 10 a.m. Classes will meet at the Brooklyn Public Library on 73rd St. on Mon. and Wed. from 10am-1pm starting January 18th.

 

BRUCA IS OPEN: Bay Ridge Union Center for the Arts is offering pottery classes for all ages at the Union Church on 81st/Ridge. CALL 718-745-0439 for schedule and fees. Congratulations to Ed Huml - PS 102 parent and BRUCA Program Director!

Prospect Park Ice Skating Lessons  - Sat. and Sun. classes are beginning in January – call 718-282-1226 for schedule and fees.

 

THE CHILDREN’s CHORUS of BAY RIDGE will begin their spring semester 1/17/06 at the Church of the Good Shepherd. The chorus is open to children K-5 of all faiths and backgrounds. Call Eileen @718-745-8520, or email Director Sara Paar at paarsm@yahoo.com for more information.

 

Coffee and Conversation – Would you like to get to know your neighbors? Volunteer conversation partners are sought for adult English Language Learners. Call The Dialogue Project if you are interested: 718-768-2175

 

Brooklyn Museum Studio Art Program – New classes are offered this spring for ages 6 and up. Brochures and scholarship applications are available on parent info table or from Ms. Sheri. Scholarship deadline is 1/22/06 - see www.brooklynmuseum.org or call 718-501-6129 for more information.

 

 

THANKS 

 


…to Ms. Mealing, Mrs. Syrdahl, Ms.Famoso and Santa Claus for a wonderful Bay View Chorus Holiday Concert – but most of all to all the students who shared their beautiful voices – WOW!

…to the PTA, GO and all parent, students and staff who donated to the holiday toy drive, the used book drive, Penny Harvest and the Thanksgiving food drive – PS 102 is a very generous school!

…to the Jindyehs and other parent volunteers who pulled off another fun Family Sports Night – those of you who missed it also missed seeing Mrs. Dovi hula-hoop!

…to the wonderful parents of Fernando Carrillo, class 2-102, who found and returned my lost purse.

…to a beautiful mom who walked home in the rain to get dry socks and shoes for a student with wet feet.

 

 

PS 102 is a place where many people do kind things for each other each day. It makes working here a real pleasure.  I look forward to the happy surprises that will come my way this year.  

 

                     ---Margaret Sheri, Parent Coordinator

Contact Information

School Office: 718-748-7404 
Parent Coordinator: 347-563-4586, or email:

MElliotSheri@nycboe.net

School Web Site: http://schools.nycenet.edu/region7/ps102

PTA email: ps102pta@yahoo.com