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 JUNE 2007 – 9/3

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES IN JUNE:

 

June 4 & 12: are clerical ½ days – please pick your children up at 11:30!

 

Wednesday June 6: Kindergarten Orientation

9:15 a.m. for parents of Kindergarten students entering PS 102 in September 2007.

 

Thursday June 7: Brooklyn Day – NO SCHOOL

 

Monday June 11:  Spring Fair – Grades 3, 4 & 5

 

Thursday June 14: CEC Meeting - P.S. 229  1400 Benson Avenue –  7 p.m.

 

Saturday June 16:  RELAY for LIFE – Please consider supporting a PS 102 Team Member with a donation to the American-Cancer Society as we raise money for those battling this terrible disease, celebrate a survivor or remember lost loved ones.  Any of the team members (staff or parents) listed on the poster on the front office door can accept a donation.  Come on out to Ft. Hamilton H.S. from 4-9 to show your support!

 

Sunday June 17 - ♥♥ HAPPY FATHER’S DAY ♥♥♥

Wednesday June 27 – School is Out!  Please pick up your children at 11:30 a.m. 

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME!

PS 102 families, staff and friends will enjoy a Brooklyn Cyclones Game at 7:00 p.m on June 27th Ticket sales end June 15.  Call the main office if you have any questions. 
Thanks Mrs. Jansen for organizing this event!

 

Please see the June PTA Calendar or your child’s teacher for grade specific year-end events, and the DOE website: www.schools.nyc.gov/calendar for a 2007/2008 school year calendar.

 

Have fun this summer, but please don’t forget that your children should keep their brains working to avoid “summer slide.” Check out the links from our school web site, pick up an Activity Calendar from the table in the lobby, and join the local BPL summer reading program.  Encourage your child to keep a journal!

 

JUNE QUOTE:

 

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.”

  ~John Lubbock

 

Volunteers of the Month

 

This June we would like to celebrate two very special volunteers: Yasmin Ali and Gina Montalbano.  Both of these very dedicated parent volunteers received the 2007 Christine Alfaro Learning Leader of the Year Award in recognition of volunteering the most hours as a Learning Leader tutor and as both were credited by teachers as being a great benefit to the children with whom they worked.  Yasmin is the proud mom of 3rd grade PS 102 student Shamain Abid and two older children.  She has been a faithful volunteer to class 2-107 for the last two years and loves when the children see her outside of school and ask her when she is coming again.  Gina is the mom of three PS 102 students – Brian, Matthew and Russell – and somehow found time to dedicate over 80 hours to the students of class 114.  Gina was a newly trained Learning Leader in October 2006 and spent two months volunteering as a vision screener before starting her tutoring assignment. Thank you Yasmin and Gina for your tremendous dedication to the Learning Leaders program and the children of PS 102!  

 

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY?

 

You may have noticed our school yard is more colorful... yellow, green, white, blue and red...thanks to a grant from the DOE, our art teacher Ms. Stanton, our custodians and our tireless painters...Anna Hom, Linda Rainford, Teresa Romero, Magda Mendez, Georgia Constantini, Rima Beydoun, Sue Caputo, Kathy Windram, Cory Farrell, Mary Curci, Melissa Walsh, Kareem Jacob, Christine Dario, Mrs. Sichenze and Mrs. Dovi!  Children will be taught cooperative educational games to play on this "Peaceful Playground.” There is still more painting to do...so please contact Anna Hom if you can help.

 

PS 102 SCHOOLHOUSE

 

Our new Schoolhouse opened May 30th with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony attending by Borough Pres. Marty Markowitz and City Councilman Vincent Gentile who funded the project and Carlo Scissura, D20 CEC President.  The schoolhouse is open during school hours solely for the use of PS 102 students supervised by staff members.  During the hours of 3-6 it will be open to the community ONLY if our HeartShare Afterschool Program is not using the equipment.  Please respect the rules posted on the gates and supervise your children at all times.  Thank you for your cooperation and ENJOY!

Text Box: Reading With Your Child:Encourage your child to read by starting a summer book club If children don’t practice their reading over the summer, they’ll start school next fall with rusty skills. A summer book club is one way to keep your child reading when he isn’t in class. It’s also a great way for you to get more involved in your child’s reading life. Talk to parents of three or four other children. See if they’d like to join you in a summer reading club. At the first meeting, let the kids choose a cool name and suggest books they’d like to read. Ask their teacher for ideas, too. Don’t worry too much if the children don’t choose “great” books—the important thing is to keep them reading. There are lots of online book lists of books kids will love. Decide on the first book and the date of your next meeting. Be sure someone brings a snack. Assign one family to come up with questions to discuss. (Look online if you’re stumped—many publishers now have book group questions for popular books.) Be sure parents read the book, too. Parents say these clubs are both fun and educational. Everyone reads and talks about good books. Enjoy your summer club. You may even want to continue next fall. Reprinted with permission from the May 2007 issue of Parents make the difference!® (Elementary School Edition) newsletter. Copyright © 2007 The Parent Institute®, a division of NIS, Inc. Source: “Starting a Book Club,” Kidsreads.com, www.kidsreads.com/clubs/club-about.asp.

CHECK IT OUT!

www.connectwithkids.com

GREAT ARTICLES/RESOURCE FOR PARENTS!

 

THANKS!

 

To the PTA for a successful plant sale!

 

To Ms. Mealing, Ms. Syrdahl and Ms. Famoso and all the talented writers, stars, crew and musicians who created and performed in this year’s original opera “The Rolling Bones”. BOW-WOW!

 

To Ms. Stanton for arranging for the Midori and Friends Cinco de Mayo concert – over 100 people attended!

 

SAVE THE DATE!

 

September 15, 2007 – Join the PS 102 Beach Clean-up Team for our Third Annual Event.  Details and Sign-up sheets to follow in the fall.  Please see www.alsnyc.org and our web site for photos of last year’s clean-up and more information. 

 

 

BOOKS OF THE MONTH

 

In June we are reading:

K-2:  The Night Before Summer Vacation

by Natasha Wing

 

3-5:  The Seashore by Angela Wilkes

 

 

 

 

 

q RECYCLE q
 Please support PS 102 by recycling your used printer and desktop copier cartridges and outdated cell phones! Just drop them in the boxes found in the main office or lobby. 

Thanks to all who have already contributed!

Drop off for this school year ends 6/15 – please save and bring in for September drop off!

Check out the counter on our web site to see how much we’ve earned to date!

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS -

To the Class of 2007 !!!

 

I have had a great time getting to know many of you and I look forward to seeing you enjoy all the activities planned this month by your teachers, the G.O., Ms. Famoso and The PTA.  I wish each of you the best of luck in middle school and know you will do well.  I would also like to thank and congratulate all of our 5th grade parents, teachers, our AP’s and Mrs. Dovi for preparing our graduates to move on.

 

A special thank you to my daughter, Sofia, for being patient, honest, kind and wise beyond her years and for forgiving me for not getting a congratulatory ad in the yearbook on time!

A special thanks also goes to our “graduating” 5th grade parent volunteers – I hope you will continue to stay involved as your children grow.  I’ve known most of you since our children started Kindergarten together – and you have become great friends to me and of PS 102.  You will be greatly missed – but all the time and care you have generously given these years will benefit PS 102 staff and students for many years to come.

 

Cindy Amato                    Jesse Bernacci          

Sue Caputo                      Mary Curci

        Michele and Carmelo DiBartolo

            Corrine and John Farrell

            Theresa and Vinny Ferraioli

Enisa Gjonbalic                 Raymunda Louie

Hanan Nsouli           Debbie McCarthy

Magda Mendez                  Priscilla Quintero
Theresa Walker                Mary Witke

            

Please have a great summer and feel free to contact me if you have questions or suggestions for next year!   


                    --Margaret Sheri, Parent Coordinator

 

 

Contact Information

School Office: 718-748-7404 
Parent Coordinator: Margaret Sheri, 347-563-4586

or email MElliotSheri@schools.nyc.gov

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

PTA email: ps102pta@yahoo.com