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Week Five
(April 20 - April 24)

This was another busy week of learning at P.S. 197. As a staff, we are continuing to figure out ways to adjust curriculum to a remote learning environment. Our teachers and administrative team attended Virtual Professional Learning to help us further develop our skills.

As of Friday, April 24, 200 of our students received their I-Pads from the New York City Department of Education this week. Our office staff, along with Mr. Richford and Mr. Slavin, worked to help families set these devices up. We also continued to support our families as they learn how to navigate Google Classroom.

As a school, we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day with special activities throughout the week. We also celebrated Kindergarten Day by sharing pictures of staff when they were in Kindergarten. Some of the pictures appear here. You can see a padlet of Kindergarten pictures on our Echalk website as well.

We miss our students terribly. Stay safe and stay well everyone. We hope to see you all soon!

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Ramadan began on the evening of April 23 and will continue through May 23. We would like to wish all of our families who celebrate a Happy Ramadan!

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We celebrated Kindergarten Day by sharing pictures of staff when they were in Kindergarten.
Ms. Nicoletti is in this picture. Can you find her?

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These sisters were excited to work on an Earth Day project together.

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This Pre-K student was all smiles after trying out Ms. McFeeley's experiment!

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Ms. McFeeley posted a cool video about a science experiment. Her students tried it out and were excited to send her the results.

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Our teachers continue to participate in professional learning remotely. Here, our third grade team works with the administration and a Teachers College consultant to adapt literacy units to remote learning.

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This student proudly wrote a beautiful poem about her dad.

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One of our students made beautiful Ramadan lanterns.

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Ms. Nicoletti and Ms. Corrado attended Algebra for All professional learning this week with other administrators from District 22.

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Ms. Santoro's class were proud to share the poetry they wrote with their classmates.

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Some of our fifth graders shared pictures they made with Ms. Richford last week.

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One of our Pre-K students tried out Ms. McFeeley's experiment with a little help from his Mom and big brother.

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One of our students proudly holds up her anthology of poems.

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Some of our teachers have been planning special activities with their classes. Ms. Richford invited her kids to bake chocolate chip cookies with her in a remote baking lesson last week.

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This student proudly displays the cookies she made with her teacher last week. I bet they were delicious!

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This student is pretending to be a seed.

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One of our students worked on a drawing of a favorite monster. Do you know which book this is from?

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Students were encouraged to upload a picture of themselves trying ballet.

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One of our students listens carefully as her teacher reads, "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs".

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One of our Kindergarteners created a poster explaining why you should not litter.

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One of our fifth graders created an amazing model of a Viking longship.

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Several of our students took on Mr. Slavin's Lego Challenge and built designs out of lego bricks they found at home.

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One of our students works on ten frames to add numbers.

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One of our students shares her promise to protect the Earth.

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One of our students showed how he added three digit numbers using models.

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This student created a feeder after listening to "Those Darn Squirrels".

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This is just one page of a wonderful piece about cats written by a student.

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We celebrated Kindergarten Day by sharing pictures of staff members in Kindergarten. You will never guess who this is!
Find more pictures of our staff in Kindergarten on the Kindergarten Day padlet!

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One of our fourth graders shares a dance move with his teacher.

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This design was posted by one of our kids after she worked on a Tinkercad project.

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This amazing Viking Longship was created by one of our fifth graders.