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
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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!