Weekly Newsletter

Important Dates

January 28 - Workshop: Recognizing & Managing Anxiety, 6:30pm

January 31 - SPECIAL Movie Night: Microplastic Madness with Q&A, 6:00pm

February 5 - World Read Aloud Day

February 7 - Family Friday, 8:35am

February 7 - Movie Night, 6:30pm

February 11 - PTA Meeting, 8:30am

February 11 - SLT Meeting, 4:15pm

February 11 - 2nd - 5th Grade Armory Visit (Sign Up)

February 12 - Workshop: Martial Arts as a Focus Tool, 6:30pm

February 17 - February 21 - School Closed - MidWinter Break

February 24 - Pennies for Patients Kick Off Assembly

February 25 - 2nd Grade Monster Monologues, Times and Classes TBA

February 26 - 2nd Grade Monster Monologues, Times and Classes TBA


Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.

Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.


SEL Committee Presents
Recognizing and Managing Anxiety

Tuesday, January 28 6:30-8:00PM

FREE + babysitting (please RSVP here)

Come hear Kristin Reale, LCSW, parenting expert and experienced psychotherapist, talk about one of the most challenging and least understood aspects of parenting in this modern age: Anxiety in children. 

Alongside learning parenting techniques in empowerment and mentalization, empathy and communication, you’ll learn how to better understand the root causes of anxiety, new ways to think about what anxiety is trying to communicate and how to develop a better parenting approach to best help your child. 

A Brooklyn mother of two boys, and in private practice in Manhattan for 15+ years, Kristin treats children, adults and couples.  She specializes in attachment and trauma, depression and anxiety. Alongside her private practice, Kristin has taught in the Masters Program at New York University, lecturing on attachment and human development. She has also written and presented numerous professional papers at national psychoanalytic conferences.


PS 154 Presents a Special Movie Night
screening of Microplastic Madness

Friday, January 31 6:00
movie will begin at 6:30PM
Stay for a Q&A with the filmmakers after the movie!

FREE (with registration)

Please join us for a very special Movie Night at PS 154!

We’re screening Microplastic Madness (trailer) for our local community — PS 154 families, PS 10 families, PS 130 families, and the community at large. Please reserve your FREE tickets today, to ensure your family gets to see this special film.

BROOKLYN KIDS TAKE ON PLASTIC POLLUTION WITH CAFETERIA CULTURE


THE POETRY JOURNAL NEEDS YOU!

April is Poetry Month at our school, with a focus on reading and writing poetry of all kinds in the classroom. The month culminates in a wonderful night of student readings of their own (and other poets') work. All students also publish a poem in a school-wide anthology, which is beautifully laid out and printed by parent volunteers. Here's how you can help between this February and April. You can pitch in on any or all of these jobs, depending on your schedule:

  • work with class parents to coordinate and gather poems from teachers, ensuring that we don't miss anyone.  This can be done in the evenings at your own pace, as long as deadlines are met.

  • help in June when the journal needs to go to the printer or is ready for distribution. This is usually more of a sprint to the finish line, a.k.a. the last day of school. 

  • Finally, help to publicize and staff the annual Poetry Night, when the students read their work, on April 29. Please email pta_info@ps154.org if you are able to lend a hand!


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Movie Night: The Lion King

Friday, February 7, doors open at 6:00
movie will begin at 6:30PM
$5 suggested donation/$1 concessions

Please join us for a cozy Movie Night at PS 154! We’ll be enjoying the live-action Lion King, and raising funds for our school!

Weekly Newsletter

Important Dates

January 20 - School is closed for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

January 21 - Kindergarten application ends

January 21 - 2nd - 5th Grade Armory Visit (Sign Up)

January 23 - Drumming Share for 3rd & 5th Grade (during their scheduled class time)

January 24 - Read-a-thon Ends

January 28 - Workshop: Recognizing & Managing Anxiety, 6:30pm

January 31 - SPECIAL Movie Night screening of Microplastic Madness, 6:00pm

February 5 - World Read Aloud Day

February 7 - Family Friday, 8:35am

February 7 - Movie Night, 6:30pm

February 11 - PTA Meeting, 8:30am


Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.

Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.


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READ-A-THON Ends

Friday, January 24

Please give to support your young readers! Tally your final minutes, and get ready to submit your reading log and pledge forms! Collect the money from sponsors and return it with the completed reading log and pledge form to your child's teacher in a sealed envelope clearly marked “READ-A-THON” with the student’s name, teacher and class number on the envelope by Thursday, Jan 31. Sponsors can also donate online. If you need need a copy of the reading log or pledge form, you can find them here.


SEL Committee Presents
Recognizing and Managing Anxiety

Tuesday, January 28 6:30-8:00PM

FREE + babysitting (please RSVP here)

Come hear Kristin Reale, LCSW, parenting expert and experienced psychotherapist, talk about one of the most challenging and least understood aspects of parenting in this modern age: Anxiety in children. 

Alongside learning parenting techniques in empowerment and mentalization, empathy and communication, you’ll learn how to better understand the root causes of anxiety, new ways to think about what anxiety is trying to communicate and how to develop a better parenting approach to best help your child. 

A Brooklyn mother of two boys, and in private practice in Manhattan for 15+ years, Kristin treats children, adults and couples.  She specializes in attachment and trauma, depression and anxiety. Alongside her private practice, Kristin has taught in the Masters Program at New York University, lecturing on attachment and human development. She has also written and presented numerous professional papers at national psychoanalytic conferences.


PS 154 Presents a Special Movie Night
screening of Microplastic Madness

Friday, January 31 6:00
movie will begin at 6:30PM
Stay for a Q&A with the filmmakers after the movie!

FREE (with registration)

Please join us for a very special Movie Night at PS 154!

We’re screening Microplastic Madness (trailer) for our local community — PS 154 families, PS 10 families, PS 130 families, and the community at large. Please reserve your FREE tickets today, to ensure your family gets to see this special film.

BROOKLYN KIDS TAKE ON PLASTIC POLLUTION WITH CAFETERIA CULTURE


THE POETRY JOURNAL NEEDS YOU!

April is Poetry Month at our school, with a focus on reading and writing poetry of all kinds in the classroom. The month culminates in a wonderful night of student readings of their own (and other poets') work. All students also publish a poem in a school-wide anthology, which is beautifully laid out and printed by parent volunteers. Here's how you can help between this February and April. You can pitch in on any or all of these jobs, depending on your schedule:

  • work with class parents to coordinate and gather poems from teachers, ensuring that we don't miss anyone.  This can be done in the evenings at your own pace, as long as deadlines are met.

  • help in June when the journal needs to go to the printer or is ready for distribution. This is usually more of a sprint to the finish line, a.k.a. the last day of school. 

  • Finally, help to publicize and staff the annual Poetry Night, when the students read their work, on April 29. Please email pta_info@ps154.org if you are able to lend a hand!

Weekly Newsletter

Important Dates

January 13 - 17 - Food Drive (see below for more info)

January 14 - School Tour (FULL - contact dwattenbarger@ps154.org)

January 15 - School wide Pajama Day!

January 16 - PTA Mtg, 6:30pm

January 20 - School is closed for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

January 21 - 2nd - 5th Grade Armory Visit (Sign Up)

January 23 - Drumming Share for 3rd & 5th Grade (during their scheduled class time)

January 24 - Read-a-thon Ends

January 28 - Workshop: Recognizing & Managing Anxiety, 6:30pm

February 5 - World Read Aloud Day

February 7 - Family Friday, 8:35am

February 7 - Movie Night, 6:30pm


Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.

Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.


FOOD DRIVE!

Monday, January 13 - Friday, January 17

In honor of Martin Luther King Day of Service, we’re working with the 234th Stuy Rangers of Brooklyn Scouts collecting food items to donate to St. John’s Bread and Love, a soup kitchen and food bank located in Bedford Stuyvesant. Food items will be collected in the MMR from Monday, January 13 through Friday, January 17. 

Brooklyn Scouts is an all inclusive, coed Scouting organization dedicated to teaching traditional scouting skills to Brooklyn youth and their families.

Below is a list of suggested food items, but anything boxed or canned that has a long shelf life is best (no expired food please):

Canned Vegetables or Soups
Canned Fruits (in juice or light syrup)
Dried Fruits
Beans - canned or dry
Peanut Butter
Canned Meat or Fish 
Canned Stews (chicken or beef)
Rice (white, brown, or flavored)
Couscous
Boxed or canned Pasta/Noodles
Cold Cereal
Hot Cereal (grits, oatmeal, farina)
Dry Milk packets
Shelf stable milk
Soy/Almond/Rice milk
Nutritional Beverages (Boost, Ensure, Carnation Instant Breakfast)
Granola Bars


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PS 154 School Spirit Day

PS 154 Shares and Cares Pajama Day

Wednesday, January 15

Please have your child come to school wearing their cozy pajamas. Let’s show we care and share by participating in our Pajama Drive. If you can, please send in brand new pajamas (for adults, young adults, and/or children ages 5 and younger) with tags and in the original packaging. There will be a collection box in each of the Kindergarten classrooms. We’ll be sending the pajamas to a local family shelter.

Save the date for the next school spirit day!  On Friday, February 14, we will wear RED/PINK to show how much we LOVE PS 154!


PTA Meeting

Thursday, January 16, 6:30-8:00PM

  • Mr. Foreman will discuss Read Write Inc., our Kindergarten and Academic Intervention Phonics program.

  • Mr. Wong will share what our students are learning in STEM.

  • PTA will provide updates on the READ-A-THON, Giving More 154, our 2019-20 budget, and our very exciting PS 154 Gala, set for April 2, 2020.


SEL Committee Presents
Recognizing and Managing Anxiety

Tuesday, January 28 6:30-8:00PM

FREE + babysitting (please RSVP here)

Come hear Kristin Reale, LCSW, parenting expert and experienced psychotherapist, talk about one of the most challenging and least understood aspects of parenting in this modern age: Anxiety in children. 

Alongside learning parenting techniques in empowerment and mentalization, empathy and communication, you’ll learn how to better understand the root causes of anxiety, new ways to think about what anxiety is trying to communicate and how to develop a better parenting approach to best help your child. 

A Brooklyn mother of two boys, and in private practice in Manhattan for 15+ years, Kristin treats children, adults and couples.  She specializes in attachment and trauma, depression and anxiety. Alongside her private practice, Kristin has taught in the Masters Program at New York University, lecturing on attachment and human development. She has also written and presented numerous professional papers at national psychoanalytic conferences.


THE POETRY JOURNAL NEEDS YOU!

April is Poetry Month at our school, with a focus on reading and writing poetry of all kinds in the classroom. The month culminates in a wonderful night of student readings of their own (and other poets') work. All students also publish a poem in a school-wide anthology, which is beautifully laid out and printed by parent volunteers. Here's how you can help between this February and April. You can pitch in on any or all of these jobs, depending on your schedule:

  • work with class parents to coordinate and gather poems from teachers, ensuring that we don't miss anyone.  This can be done in the evenings at your own pace, as long as deadlines are met.

  • help in June when the journal needs to go to the printer or is ready for distribution. This is usually more of a sprint to the finish line, a.k.a. the last day of school. 

  • Finally, help to publicize and staff the annual Poetry Night, when the students read their work, on April 29. Please email pta_info@ps154.org if you are able to lend a hand!

Weekly Newsletter

Important Dates

January 6 - Read-a-thon begins

January 7 - PTA Exec Board Meeting, 8am

January 8 - School Tour (FULL - contact dwattenbarger@ps154.org)

January 14 - School Tour (FULL - contact dwattenbarger@ps154.org)

January 15 - School wide Pajama Day!

January 16 - PTA Meeting, 6:30pm

January 20 - School is closed for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

January 21 - 2nd - 5th Grade Armory Visit (Sign Up)

January 23 - Drumming Share for 3rd & 5th Grade (during their scheduled class time)

January 24 - Read-a-thon Ends

January 28 - Workshop: Recognizing & Managing Anxiety, 6:30pm


Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.

Stay up to date with the efforts of our school’s leadership team. Click here for the latest information.


GENERAL REMINDER

SCHOOL STARTS AT 8:20am

This means students should be in the school yard or the cafeteria by 8:20am. Please do your best to have your children to school on time. When students arrive late, they have to wait in line to sign the late book, and they miss valuable settling in time in the classroom. In addition, these morning interruptions delay the whole class and take time away from the fun of learning for everyone.


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PS 154 School Spirit Day

PS 154 Shares and Cares Pajama Day

Wednesday, January 15

Please have your child come to school wearing their cozy pajamas. Let’s show we care and share by participating in our Pajama Drive. If you can, please send in brand new pajamas (for adults, young adults, and/or children ages 5 and younger) with tags and in the original packaging. There will be a collection box in each of the Kindergarten classrooms. We’ll be sending the pajamas to a local family shelter.

Save the date for the next school spirit day!  On Friday, February 14, we will wear RED/PINK to show how much we LOVE PS 154!


COMMUNITY INFO & EVENTS

Behavior and Emotional Skills Training (BEST)

Friday, January 10, 2020

The Child Mind Institute’s Student Success Program is thrilled to offer a FREE one-day parent and caregiver training. Behavior and Emotional Skills Training (BEST) is open to parents and caregivers of elementary school children, and typically costs $600 per participant. This program is FREE! Lunch will be provided. During BEST, parents and caregivers will learn strategies to increase positive behaviors, manage misbehaviors, and connect with other families and caregivers for continued support.

BEST Details: Friday, January 10th, 2020, 9:00am-2:00pm

PS 130 K – Lower School | 70 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11218

Please see the flyer attached here.

BEST Families may enroll by completing the sign up form online here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Lip3iLGWBB1-0sHMEfR3MCwFeyueZ2F5by8TFszblJI/edit

GIRLS LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS FOR GIRLS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS

This Winter at PS 321

Girls Leadership's acclaimed workshops equip girls with the skills to exercise the power of their voice. Join us and learn how to communicate your feelings, navigate conflict and share mistakes.

Grades K and 1
TOOLS FOR SUNNY & CLOUDY DAYS WITH FRIENDS
$205 per girl and grown up pair*

Saturdays, 1/11, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8
9:30 am to 10:30 am @ PS 321

It’s never too early to start to learn and practice social-emotional intelligence skills. Girls and grown-ups will bond and explore healthy relationships through exciting interactive games and engaging stories. Pairs will build the foundation of a common language to advocate for themselves and understand true friendship behaviors.
REGISTER HERE

Grades 2 and 3
NINE TOOLS FOR TRUE FRIENDSHIP – PART I
$235 per girl and grown up pair*

Saturdays, 1/11, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8
11 am to 12:30 pm @ PS 321

Like any pursuit—soccer, dance,etc.,—developing social-emotional intelligence and learning authentic self-expression takes practice. Through fun and interactive games and discussions girls and grown-ups will learn and practice how to explore and share feelings, communicate authentically, and make healthy relationship choices.
REGISTER HERE 

Grades 4 and 5
4 STEPS FOR GETTING WHAT YOU NEED – PART I
$235 per girl and grown up pair*

Saturdays, 1/11, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8
9:30 am to 11 am @ PS 321

Fourth and fifth grade are often the years in which girls experience significant shifts in their self- confidence and increasing social pressures to conform. It is this transitional age where girls’ voices tend to become silenced. Girls and Grown-ups will practice using the skills of assertive self-expression through activities, discussion, and paired scenarios. The workshop gives pairs the opportunity to have fun, to bond, and to work together to explore the importance of healthy and productive conflict.
REGISTER HERE 

*Scholarships are available upon request at registration. No one will be turned away.