A.C.E. Academy for Scholars
Weekly Newsletter
June 8, 2020
June Monthly Theme: "Path to Excellence"
Photo of the Week
This weeks photo comes from Violet in 3rd Grade - Fordham.
Seven simple strategies for parents to help you raise children who accept and celebrate themselves and others from Big Life Journal.
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June is National Safety Month
National Safety Month serves to bring awareness to saving lives by preventing injuries at home, at school, in the workplace, outdoors or anywhere! Please find below useful tips and resources on how you can keep safe.
Parents checklist to preventing injuries during coronavirus - get helpful tips for parents on how to prevent injuries during especially during the coronavirus pandemic.
Home Safety Checklist - learn about all the things you can do to help ensure that your kids get the freedom that comes from being active, healthy and safe at home.
Stay Connected/Informed - Register for Notify NYC to receive alerts through Notify NYC, NYC’s official source for information about emergency events and important City services. Registration is free.
Emergency Supplies: Every household should have a Go Bag in the event you need to evacuate and emergency supplies in the event you need to shelter in place.
Tips for Prescription Preparedness (PDF): Disasters can affect your ability to access medications.
Poison Control and Medicine Safety - Poison prevention and safety at home.
Fire Safety Checklist - Home fires can start and spread quickly, so just a little bit of planning can make a big difference. Make sure to create a home fire escape plan and practice it regularly with your family. FDNY Safety Tips - Do's. AND FDNY Safety Tips - Don'ts!
Open Water Safety Checklist - Water safety when around lakes, rivers, oceans and other open water.
Pool Safety Checklist - keep your family safe in and around water.
***For more information on how to keep you and your family safe (including in other languages) please visit:
https://www.safekids.org/safetytips and https://www1.nyc.gov/site/em/ready/get-prepared.page
Quarantine Recipe of the Week
This weeks recipe comes from our Parent Coordinator, Mrs. Lawson
German Pancakes (also known as Dutch Baby Pancakes)
Ingredients- 3 large eggs
- 1 ½ tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- ¾ cup milk, warm
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons butter
- powdered sugar, for serving
Preparation
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (205°C).
- Combine the eggs, granulated sugar, salt, milk, vanilla, flour and melted butter in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
- Preheat an oven-safe skillet over medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes. Melt the butter in the skillet. Pour the batter into the heated skillet and then immediately, and carefully, move the skillet to the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes. The pancake is done when it is a rich amber color and the sides have risen considerably. Carefully remove the pancake from the skillet and let cool slightly on a wire rack.
- Serve warm with powdered sugar and sliced strawberries (optional)
Send us your favorite Quarantine Recipe to info@ps290q.com to feature in our weekly newsletter. Please put in the subject "Quarantine Recipe".
Virtual PTA Meeting
To join please go to Google Meet Link:
Click here for meeting agenda.
Coffee & Conversation
Tuesdays, June 9th, 16th & 23rd @ 10:30am meet.google.com/fyi-hpmk-bym
Tuesdays, June 9th, 16th & 23rd @ 5:30pm meet.google.com/nnp-mkym-mgv
Single Parents Group Meeting
Friday, June 12 & 19th @ 7:00pm on Google Meeting ID: meet.google.com/sor-yjdt-bxv
Wellness Wednesdays
Join us every Wednesday on Google Meet for a series of wellness sessions for the mind, body and spirit. Sessions are for whole family and will include yoga, mindfulness, exercise and healthy eating.
This Wednesday, June 10th @ 3:00pm
Go to link: meet.google.com/dde-hcof-qyd
Fun Free Things to do This Week
No Bake Play Dough
What you'll need:
- A large mixing bowl
- 1 cup water
- 4 cups flour
- 2 to 4 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 1/2 cups salt
- Food coloring (mix them to make different colors)
- Glitter
Your pantry has the key to a successful chunk of playdough, and this PBS Kids recipe proves it. The glittery how-to encourages parents and kids to tackle the craft together. For the full recipe go to: https://www.pbs.org/parents/crafts-and-experiments/no-bake-playdough-recipe
Minecraft Your Way to a Better City
Right now, all New York City public school students in grades K–12 can be a part of our first-ever NYC Minecraft Education Challenge!
From now until June 16, 2020, City students can use Minecraft: Education Edition to design a public space for their neighborhood, community, borough, or city.
We challenge all NYC students to participate in this program—think of the public spaces we have today, and think of all the ways YOU could improve upon them. Consider local cultures and ecosystems as you flesh out your ideas, and then drop into Minecraft and see what designs you can come up with!
Virtual STEAM Workshop-Engineering With Paper
The Lewis Latimer House Museum is hosting a unique virtual program on Thursday, June 11, 3:30 - 4:30pm! Participants will build amazing structures and explore engineering techniques using only paper, examine the objects around them in the spaces they inhabit and think of them as simple objects. By breaking furniture and decor into primitive shapes, they will be able to build them out of paper using a basic set of techniques.
Ages 7 and above, Families, and Adults welcome.
Materials: paper, tape, scissors, coloring materials
To register go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-steam-workshop-engineering-with-paper-tickets-105880946762
ARTWORK OF THE WEEK!
S.T.E.A.M. Corner
NOTEworthy.....
Victoria (3rd grade Fordham scholar) singing, "Hello Dolly"!
Free Meals
The New York City Department of Education is committed to making three free meals available daily for any New Yorker. Any New Yorker who wants one can get three free meals a day at more than 400 Meal Hubs across the city.
***IMPORTANT NOTICE: PS/IS 49 HAS REOPENED AND IS SERVING MEALS AGAIN.
- Meals can be picked up at all Meal Hubs 7:30 am to 1:30 pm, Monday through Friday
- Meals Hubs will operate for children and families from 7:30 am to 11:30 am, and for adults from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
- No one will be turned away at any time
- All adults and children can pick up three meals at one time
- Vegetarian and halal options available at all sites
- No dining space is available, so meals must be eaten off premises
- Parents and guardians may pick up meals for their children
- No registration or ID required
To find a location near you, go to https://www.opt-osfns.org/schoolfoodny/meals/default.aspx#Result
Or
for additional resources go to https://portal.311.nyc.gov/category/?id=311-22
2020 Census
The results of the 2020 Census will help determine how hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding flow into communities every year for the next decade. That funding shapes many different aspects of every community, no matter the size, no matter the location.
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