Bun chills on his favorite chair.

Our Trip to 826 NYC

Dear Parents and Families,

I am excited to inform you that Class 5-307 won a spot at 826NYC for a special writing workshop.  Each year, teachers enter a lottery for their hard-to-come-by trips.  We will be participating in a Writing for Television workshop on Monday, October 1st, from 10:30 a.m. – 12: 30 p.m. 826NYC is located at 372 5^th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn (very close to MS 51!) between 5^th and 6^th streets.   You can read about 826NYC at

http://www.826nyc.org/.

We will be leaving school at approximately 9:40 a.m. and taking the F train to the 4^th Avenue stop, where we will walk to 826NYC.  The session ends at 12:30 p.m., and weather depending, we will either walk back to school or take the F train back to the 15^th Street – Prospect Park station. Our class will be returning to school at about 1:15 p.m.

Students will need to prepare a bagged lunch to eat in our classroom upon our return.  Students will also need to be sure to bring a snack since they will be eating lunch later than usual. No glass bottles, please!

This will be our first trip taking the subway, and our first trip outside of the classroom.  It is very important that students behave as respectful representatives of the PS 154 community.  Great behavior may result in the planning of more field trips and activities.  Rule breakers may be barred from future activities or trips based on their behavior! 

We would appreciate up to 6 parent volunteers that would like to accompany us on our trips.  I would like to inform you that the Department of Education technically allows for only two adults to ride for free on the subway during field trips, so please bring Monthly Metrocards or subway fare. Usually, we can all go for free, but we have been stopped before!

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Storycorps

We listened to a Storycorps interview today about an eleven year old reflecting on his Grandmother's death during the 9/11 attacks. 

Storycorps features interviews and stories from a variety of people from a variety of places.

Visit the Storycorps website for more.

Middle School

A notice will be going home tomorrow about middle school.  In the meantime, you may want to brush up on the ins and outs of our district's middle schools. 

You can find more information by typing "middle school" into the search bar at the NYC DOE website (http://schools.nyc.gov/default.htm).

You can find the middle school directory for District 15 by clicking here and downloading the PDF.

Start looking into middle schools and signing up for tours now or as soon as you can.  They sometimes fill up quickly.

Tomorrow's the Big Day!

I am very excited to meet you tomorrow.  Get a good night's rest, and I'll see you at 8:40 a.m.