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P.S. 188Q Weekly Newsletter
January 2nd to 6th
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On behalf of the PS 188Q staff, I would like to wish you a healthy and happy winter break. Enjoy time with your family and friends. We will see you in 2023!!!
Here are some updates:
📚Secret Reader is back! Look for an email from Mrs. Perez-Fung to sign up for a time on a Friday from January 13th to February 3rd to read a book to your child's class via Zoom.
📢PTA Empower Our Children Donation Drive continues. See the flyer below for more details.
❗Winter recess is from December 24th to January 2nd. Classes resume Tuesday, January 3rd.
📌Annex families- please do not to use the parking lot. Please do not to walk on church property as well as allow your children to touch the decorations.
💃🕺Dancing Classrooms will begin January 3rd for fourth grade and January 4th for fifth grade. We are thankful for Councilmember Lee for funding this project.
🎇PTA is providing each student with five in class lessons facilitated by the New York Historical Society. Fourth and grade programs begin when we return from Winter Break. Thank you PTA for providing this enrichment program for our students.
🚗Stop-Drop-and-Go: We need volunteers to help out at stop-drop-and-go. Please reach out the PTA @ admin@ps188qpta.org if you would like to volunteer.
🗨PTA School Store is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday mornings from 7:40-7:55 a.m.
😁The P.S 188 Snack Shack is now selling water. Everything from the Snack Shack is $1. All proceeds will be used for supplies and events for the students.
🧥Please label your child's belongings. We have many coats, sweatshirts, hats, gloves and other items that are in the lost and found.
✨Looking forward to a great 2023 at P.S. 188Q! See you all in the New Year!
Have a question? Contact us:
- Christina Figueroa, Principal CFiguer4@schools.nyc.gov
- Christina Nartowicz, Assistant Principal CNartowicz@schools.nyc.gov
- Myrna Perez-Fung, Parent Coordinator mperez-fung@schools.nyc.gov
📚January 2023 Book of the Month
Check Out Our Winter Door Decorating Contest
Check Out Some Photos From Our Student/Staff Basketball Game
📅Upcoming Events
Welcome to 2023!!!
January 3rd to February 3rd iReady and Acaidence Middle of the Year Assessment Window
- January 3rd: Students return from Winter Recess; Dancing Classrooms begin for Grade 4; NYHS begins for Grade 5- Industrial Innovations
- January 4th: Grades 1-5 Book of the Month assembly---wear P.S. 188Q trip shirt; Dancing Classrooms begins for Grade 5; NYHUS begins for Grade 4- Old and New Amsterdam; SLT via Zoom @ 7 p.m.; PTA Read-A-Thon Poster contest begins
- January 6th: Safety Meeting 7:30 a.m. via Zoom
- January 9th: PreK and Kindergarten Book of the Month assembly---wear your P.S. 188Q trip shirt; NYC Soapbox Competition @ NYHS
- January 11th: ENL Afterschool begins for selected students and continues on Wednesdays and Thursdays
- January 12th: CDEC meeting 7:00 p.m. via Zoom
- January 13th: Middle School Parent Workshop Session #1 @ 9 a.m. in-person (proof of vaccination need); PTA Read-A-Thon Poster Contest ends
- January 16th: No School- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- January 17th: Family DEI Meeting 9:30 a.m. via Zoom; Middle School Workshop #1 via Zoom at 7:00 p.m.
- January 18th: Last Day of Wednesday Self-Sustaining afterschool; PTA meeting 7:00 p.m. via Zoom
- January 19th: FDNY visit PreK B8 and PreK B9
- January 20th: Coffee and Conversations with Mrs. Figueroa and Mrs. Nartowicz; Kindergarten application is due
- January 22nd: Lunar New Year
- January 23rd: P.S. 188Q vs. P.S. 159Q basketball game--further guidance on spectators; PTA Read-A-Thon begins
- January 25th: NYHS begins for 3rd grade- Picturing Black History
- January 26th: Last day of Thursday Self-Sustaining Afterschool
- January 27th: Student DEI Meeting 7:30 a.m.; P.S. 188Q Winter Chorus Concert in-person with live stream available
- February 1st: Grades 1-5 Book of the Month assembly---wear P.S. 188Q trip shirt
- February 3rd: Safety Meeting via Zoom; PTA Read-A-Thon ends
- February 6th: PreK and Kindergarten Book of the Month assembly---wear your P.S. 188Q trip shirt
- February 9th: CDEC Meeting 7:00 p.m.
- February 10th: Middle School Meeting Session #3 @ 9:00 a.m. in-person (proof of vaccination need)
- February 13th: Middle School Meeting Session #3 @ 7:00 p.m. via Zoom
- February 14th: PTA Friendship Bake Sale
- February 15th: 100th Day of School; PTA Meeting 7:00 p.m. via Zoom