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Week Two
(March 30 - April 3, 2020)

We were relieved to complete our first week of online learning. As a staff, we had to learn so much in a short period of time.  We had to manage assignments, check in with our students and grade work using new systems that we had never tried before. It has been a tremendous amount of work, but we did it!

Behind the scenes, we set up our "Virtual Main Office" and our school aides, secretaries and parent coordinator were calling families and assisting them with all kinds of issues in multiple languages. Our nurse even had a conference call with Ms. Courtney and a parent who needed an Urdu translation.

We are all continuing to work tirelessly to keep our school community connected.

This week, as a staff, we worked on improving communications with students. We tested out Google Meet and figured out the best way to use this with our children. The work displayed here exemplifies the efforts of our students, their families and our staff.

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One of our students posted a message for her teacher and classmates.

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At PS 197, we try very hard to foster a sense of community. Our fourth grade teachers came up with a list of fun activities for everyone to try this week.

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Ms. Richford has been conducting small groups using Google Meet. Ms. Sladky even visited the group to get ideas for her own class.

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We invited our students to wear pajamas to school on April 3rd.

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Many of our students have enjoyed Mr. Richford's assignments. They have started their own gardens at home using vegetables from their refrigerator.

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One of our kiddos proudly practices her counting skills at home.

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Ms. Colley challenged her fourth graders to create a model of the Solar System using a ruler and objects around the house. We were impressed by what they turned in!

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Class 1-305 took part in a "Rainbow Project" and created colorful pictures to lift everyone's spirits.

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Our kids are still hard at work on their writing even though they are not in school.

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One of our Kindergarteners shared this video.

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Our first graders enjoyed uploading video clips of their dances for Ms. Flanagan.

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1st Grade Dance Week of 3_30 (Apr 3, 2020 at 7_23 PM).MOV

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On Tuesday, we invited everyone to wear mix and matched clothes. Here is Ms. Strangis in her outfit.

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This week was School Spirit Week at PS 197. We invited students and staff to dress in their favorite superhero costume. This is Ms. Atlas posing with her dog, Brooklyn.

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PS 197 actually registered a brand new student this week. Due to the virus outbreak, she was registered virtually. None of us have met her in person yet, but we are happy to have her as part of the PS 197 family.

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April 1st was National Para Appreciation Day. We are very thankful for the hard-working paras at PS 197.

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Russian How to Use Google Classroom Videos

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Russian How to Use Google Classroom Videos

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Ms. Chernomaz started to translate the videos created by other teachers into Russian this week.

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Our Grade Three Team has been having a virtual lunch with each other every day- just to check in on one another and stay connected.