December 16 News

Thank you!!!

Thank you all for making Winter Fair a huge success! It was wonderful seeing all the kiddos enjoying themselves making crafts, enjoying hot chocolate and popcorn, or just running around the schoolyard like merry little maniacs. And through the sales of crafts, food, and apparel we were able to raise almost $7,000 for the school!

But of course this would have been possible without everyone who volunteered their time, either on the day of the event or leading up to making delicious treats and preparing crafts and games.

Thank you to all our volunteers:

School Principal: Leila Rached

Chair of Fundraising Events: Bill Podurgiel

Fundraising Chairs: Sarah Gartenberg and Renanit Levy

Chair of Food: Tara Cafaro

Chair of Crafts: Sabrina Baronberg

Chair of Decorations: Dani Kim

President of Popcorn: Frances Sampson

Hot Chocolate Czar: Danielle Mendez

Chair of Cash: Cara Zwerling

School Store Chief: Stefanie Schiada

Beanbag Boss: Rob Townend

Raccoon Wrangler: Damien Correll

And thanks to everyone who pitched in:

Tanica Gordon, Sapna Advani, Matilda Curley, Daniel Davidson, Meibis Lopez, Oscar Milledge, Kerry Bray, Shannon Smith, Hong Wu, Madelon Gauthier, Maya Swedowsky, Becky Amsel, Claudia Freeman, Matilda Curley, Kaiya Baronberg, Nicole Andersen, Devjani Das, Susan Machover, Shari Levi, Emma Vazquez, Lucas Vazquez, Brittany Stenerson, Geina Keller, Ed Huttel, Chino Okonkwo, Alex Costas, Tana Wojczuk, Amy May, Sabrina Phillips, Elyse Lightman Samuel 1s, Aya Tariq, Esther Tantao, Frank Laterra, Judd Gartenberg

Special thanks to the generous donations from Windsor Farms Market and Cutest Cookies in Staten Island.

To all attended—Thank you and Happy Holidays!

School Photo Deadline - December 20!

We are just a few orders away from earning 20% of the school picture order profits. If ordering school pictures is on your to-do list, please get your order in by December 20, so that it will count towards our fundraising.

To view and order school pictures, go to https://iloveschoolpictures.com/PS154, and click the pink “view and purchase” button. You will be prompted to enter an online code. The code is

PS154 + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S FIRST NAME + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S LAST NAME
(i.e. Jane Smith = PS154JaneSmit)

School Spirit Fridays

Whether you’re sporting a vintage shirt from an older sibling or parent, the classic yellow-and-blue raccoon shirt, a Boo Bash shirt from a couple of years ago, or the newly released Winter Fair shirt, show your school spirit with a 154 shirt on Fridays! Who knows - maybe you’ll be twinning with a friend, a teacher, or even the principal!

Heads Up! Early arrival on 12/23 is cancelled for our staff holiday breakfast.

The schoolyard gate and kindergarten door will open at 8:25. Grab and go breakfast will be provided for students to eat in classrooms if they need breakfast.

Holiday GiveBacks

The 2022 holiday season is here, and it’s the perfect time to raise funds for the PS 154 PTA simply by shopping at participating vendors!

Foley Firs

Minted.com

Order holiday cards + custom gifts at 20% off, and Minted will donate 15% of each purchase to our PTA!

Share our unique code with friends, family, and on social media as early as you can! FUNDRAISEPS154WTS

COMMUNITY CORNER

Girls on the Run NYC 5K Event

December 9 News

Thank you all for making Winter Fair a huge success! It was wonderful seeing all the kiddos enjoying themselves making crafts, enjoying hot chocolate and popcorn, or just running around the schoolyard like merry little maniacs. And through the sales of crafts, food, and apparel we were able to raise almost $7,000 for the school!

But of course this would have been possible without everyone who volunteered their time, either on the day of the event or leading up to making delicious treats and preparing crafts and games.

Thank you to all our volunteers:

School Principal: Leila Rached

Chair of Fundraising Events: Bill Podurgiel

Fundraising Chairs: Sarah Gartenberg and Renanit Levy

Chair of Food: Tara Cafaro

Chair of Crafts: Sabrina Baronberg

Chair of Decorations: Dani Kim

President of Popcorn: Frances Sampson

Hot Chocolate Czar: Danielle Mendez

Chair of Cash: Cara Zwerling

School Store Chief: Stefanie Schiada

Beanbag Boss: Rob Townend

Raccoon Wrangler: Damien Correll

And thanks to everyone who pitched in:

Tanica Gordon, Sapna Advani, Matilda Curley, Daniel Davidson, Meibis Lopez, Oscar Milledge, Kerry Bray, Shannon Smith, Hong Wu, Madelon Gauthier, Maya Swedowsky, Becky Amsel, Claudia Freeman, Matilda Curley, Kaiya Baronberg, Nicole Andersen, Devjani Das, Susan Machover, Shari Levi, Emma Vazquez, Lucas Vazquez, Brittany Stenerson, Geina Keller, Ed Huttel, Chino Okonkwo, Alex Costas, Tana Wojczuk, Amy May, Sabrina Phillips, Elyse Lightman Samuels, Aya Tariq, Esther Tantao, Frank Laterra, Judd Gartenberg

Special thanks to the generous donations from Windsor Farms Market and Cutest Cookies in Staten Island.

To all attended—Thank you and Happy Holidays!

School Photo Deadline - December 20!

We are just a few orders away from earning 20% of the school picture order profits. If ordering school pictures is on your to-do list, please get your order in by December 20, so that it will count towards our fundraising.

To view and order school pictures, go to https://iloveschoolpictures.com/PS154, and click the pink “view and purchase” button. You will be prompted to enter an online code. The code is

PS154 + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S FIRST NAME + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S LAST NAME
(i.e. Jane Smith = PS154JaneSmit)

CANDY SALE RESCHEDULED!!

Due to Friday’s inclement weather, the candy sale has been moved to Monday, 12/19 on You know you’ve run through the Halloween candy, so restock. Our 5th grade class is having a candy sale on 12/16 at dismissal in front of our school to raise funds for 5th grade events.  Please stop by to check out our yummy chocolate bars.  Hope to see you there!

Klezmer Concert

An FYI in case you need some dinner conversation with your kids stemming from an innocent “Anything interesting at school today?” - there will be an in-school Klezmer concert next Friday, 12/23 put on by the Brooklyn ChaMber fo Music.


Please see below for updated morning arrival procedures - beginning Monday 12/12

  • All 8:00-8:30 arrivals will be on the Sherman side of the building.

    • Cafeteria door for Kindergarten students.

    • Schoolyard gate for grades 1-5 students

The side entrances will close at 8:30.The first bell will ring at 8:28. At this point, students should start lining up. The second bell will ring at 8:30. At this point, the gate and sidewalk door will close. Students arriving after the side entrances close should use the Main Entrance on 11th Ave.

  • We will have an in-building late bell at 8:35. Students coming into the building after this bell rings will be considered late (given a late pass, signing late book, and marked late).

  • Between 8:35-9:00, students will sign-in the late book and get a late pass from the late-desk (to the right of the front desk).

  • For students arriving after 9:00, parents sign in and get a visitor pass, and then escort the child to the main office so they can sign in.

  • As always, we will have early-bird in the cafeteria from 7:45-8:00 (enter through Main Entrance on 11th Ave).

Health and Safety

In light of the recent uptick in Flu and and RSV in the school as well as across the city, please read our recommendations below:

  • Please get your flu shot.

  • Keep your child home if they are sick.

  • *Wearing masks indoors continues to be a great way to mitigate the spread of respiratory illness.*

FEBRUARY AUCTION

Speaking of fundraising events – If you can help out with auction planning, we welcome your planning expertise and/or any items you wish to gift for our February Auction. Start helping now and join the Auction Planning Committee! You can donate items or services through this link as well.

School Spirit Fridays

Whether you’re sporting a vintage shirt from an older sibling or parent, the classic yellow-and-blue raccoon shirt, a Boo Bash shirt from a couple of years ago, or the newly released Winter Fair shirt, show your school spirit with a 154 shirt on Fridays! Who knows - maybe you’ll be twinning with a friend, a teacher, or even the principal!

Heads Up! Early arrival on 12/23 is cancelled for our staff holiday breakfast.

The schoolyard gate and kindergarten door will open at 8:25. Grab and go breakfast will be provided for students to eat in classrooms if they need breakfast.

Holiday GiveBacks

The 2022 holiday season is here, and it’s the perfect time to raise funds for the PS 154 PTA simply by shopping at participating vendors!

Foley Firs

Minted.com

Order holiday cards + custom gifts at 20% off, and Minted will donate 15% of each purchase to our PTA!

Share our unique code with friends, family, and on social media as early as you can! FUNDRAISEPS154WTS

COMMUNITY CORNER

Girls on the Run NYC 5K Event

December 2 News

A NOTE FROM MS. RACHED

Did you know that in addition to all of the holidays that are celebrated this month, it’s also Human Rights Month? Our Book of the Month for December is The Little Book of Little Activists, a Penguin Young Readers book. This book is a celebration of youth activism and empowers children to stand up for what they believe in. An important part of our school mission is strengthening students’ understanding citizenship in the local and global community, and this books helps students to them to see themselves as change-makers.

Middle School Applications

The Middle School Application deadline has been extended to December 5th. Please rank and submit all applications by Monday, December 5th. If there’s any questions, reach out to tgordon@ps154.org for support. You can also check out the Middle School page of our website https://www.ps154.org/middle-school. Middle School Information is also available at the DOE’s Middle School page.

KINDERGARTEN TOURS

The Kindergarten Application period for students born in 2018 will open on December 7th, 2022.

Monday, December 5th is our first Kindergarten in-person tour. Please visit our kindergarten Registration and Tour page to sign up for our upcoming tours.https://www.ps154.org/registration-tours. More tour dates will be added soon.

WINTER FAIR

Come one, come all for Winter Fair 2022!

Get ready for an enchanting Winter Fair of fun crafts, delicious treats (did someone say hot chocolate bar???) and games. in the cafeteria and schoolyard. And bring a blanket or sleeping bag and cozy up with a hot chocolate because at 4:30pm we’re screening ICE AGE in the schoolyard.
There is no charge for admission for the fair or movie.

Winter Fair Food Donation

Can't volunteer your time, but willing to make something delicious for us to sell? Great!Donated food should be dropped off at the schoolyard on Saturday, December 10th between 11 and 1 PM. Store bought is fine too.Please include an ingredient list and for items that should be warm we have sternos.

Thank you, thank you very much ♥️

A giant round of applause for all who donated on Giving Tuesday earlier this week. We raised a whopping $12,600 during the Giving Tuesday period. That’s enormously helpful. We’re so appreciative of all of you!
Capping off Giving Tuesday, our first Parents' Night of the year was a huge success and raised almost $900 for the school. A good time was had by all! A huge thank you to Tom Sperduto and everyone at Krupa Grocery for your hospitality and to Meg Moorehouse of Love & Victory for your generous donations to our raffle.

Please keep an eye out for more opportunities to give during the annual year end campaign—coming soon!

FEBRUARY AUCTION

Speaking of fundraising events – If you can help out with auction planning, we welcome your planning expertise and/or any items you wish to gift for our February Auction. Start helping now and join the Auction Planning Committee! You can donate items or services through this link as well.

PS 154 Gives Back

School Pictures

To view and order school pictures

  • Go to https://iloveschoolpictures.com/PS154

  • Click the pink “view and purchase” button.

  • Enter your online code. The code is PS154 + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S FIRST NAME + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S LAST NAME (i.e. Jane Smith = PS154JaneSmit)

*If you ordered retakes, make-ups, or sibling pictures, those will be ready to view on 12/6.

FREE MONEY

Check out the Free Money page for easy ways to support PS 154 while you do your shopping year-round!

Holiday Give-Backs

The 2022 holiday season is here, and it’s the perfect time to raise funds for the PS 154 PTA simply by shopping at participating vendors!

Foley Firs

Minted.com

Order holiday cards + custom gifts at 20% off, and Minted will donate 15% of each purchase to our PTA!

Share our unique code with friends, family, and on social media as early as you can! FUNDRAISEPS154WTS

COMMUNITY CORNER

Girls on the Run NYC 5K Event

November 25 News

A NOTE FROM MS. RACHED

Dear Families,

How lucky are we to get an opportunity to celebrate all that we are thankful for? There is so much that I am grateful for - including getting to spend every day with your delightful, inquisitive, and kind children, and getting to work with such dedicated staff and supportive families. This month, our school-wide book of the month is “Harvest Days,” a newly-published picture book by Kate DePalma which describes harvest festivals celebrated by different cultures around the globe, from Chuseok in Korea to Dozynki in Poland. Through this book, students learned that harvest festivals from all cultures include special food, traditions, and celebrating with family and loved ones. Across PS 154 this week, students have been making turkeys (out of their hands, tissue paper, and pineapples) as well as reflecting on what they are grateful for. From reading their work, I am so inspired by how caring and thoughtful they are.

From all of us at PS 154, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving!

In gratitude,

Leila

Giving Tuesday at PS154 : Give a little. Get a lot.

Keep your gifts close to home this #GivingTuesday!

Join us! Support your kids and the amazing opportunities at PS154 by making a tax deductible donation here.

We’re thankful for you!

School Pictures

Order your school pictures by Monday, November 28 to take advantage of Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. *If you ordered retakes, make-ups, or sibling pictures, those will be ready to view on 12/6.

To view and order school pictures

  • Go to https://iloveschoolpictures.com/PS154

  • Click the pink “view and purchase” button.

  • Enter your online code. The code is PS154 + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S FIRST NAME + FIRST FOUR LETTERS OF CHILD'S LAST NAME (i.e. Jane Smith = PS154JaneSmit)

WINTER FAIR

Come one, come all for Winter Fair 2022!

Get ready for an enchanting Winter Fair of fun crafts, delicious treats (did someone say hot chocolate bar???) and games. in the cafeteria and schoolyard. And bring a blanket or sleeping bag and cozy up with a hot chocolate because at 4:30pm we’re screening ICE AGE in the schoolyard.
There is no charge for admission for the fair or movie.

Winter Fair Food Donation

Can't volunteer your time, but willing to make something delicious for us to sell? Great!Donated food should be dropped off at the schoolyard on Saturday, December 10th between 11 and 1 PM. Store bought is fine too.Please include an ingredient list and for items that should be warm we have sternos.

FEBRUARY AUCTION

Speaking of fundraising events – If you can help out with auction planning, we welcome your planning expertise and/or any items you wish to gift for our February Auction. Start helping now and join the Auction Planning Committee! You can donate items or services through this link as well.

Parents night out!

SOCK DRIVE

Over 900 pairs of socks were donated, and they will be picked up by nock nock, Give a Sock, on 11/30, and delivered to local shelters. Thank you for your donations!

MIDDLE SCHOOL ADMISSION APPLICATIONS

The deadline for the Middle School Application is Thursday, Dec.1. Fifth grade families: Please check out the Middle School page of our website. and the DOE’s Middle School page, and reach out to Tanica Gordon if you need support with your middle school application.

FREE MONEY

Check out the Free Money page for easy ways to support PS 154 while you do your shopping year-round!

The 2022 holiday season is here, and it’s the perfect time to raise funds for the PS 154 PTA simply by shopping at participating vendors!

Foley Firs

Minted.com

Order holiday cards + custom gifts at 20% off, and Minted will donate 15% of each purchase to our PTA!

Share our unique code with friends, family, and on social media as early as you can! FUNDRAISEPS154WTS

COMMUNITY CORNER

PS 154 Give Back

Girls on the Run NYC 5K Event

 
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