P.S. 188Q Weekly Update
Week of December 19th to 23rd
❄Thank you to our PTA beautification committee for the winter decorations at both the Main and Annex.
📢PTA Empower Our Children Donation Drive continues. See the flyer below for more details as well as are being sent home. Check your child's bookbag.
❗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.
☃Winter Door Decorating contest---the Student Council will be judging our Winter Door Decorating contest on December 22nd.
🏀We will be having a staff/student basketball game on Friday for students and staff only. We will also be hosting our first basketball game of the season on January 23rd. Our first game will be against P.S. 159Q. More information to come.
🚗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.
🗓Hanukkah begins on December 18th . Happy Hanukkah to those that celebrate.
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
PTA Empower Our Children Campaign
The PTA is continuing their "Empower Our Children Drive." Flyers were sent home along with an envelope for you to send in your donation. Help our children "Dream, Believe and Achieve!"
📢Join us for the PTA December Meeting- December 21st at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom
📑First Marking Period Report Cards Available Online
This is a reminder that report cards for the 1st marking period were released Thursday, December 15th on your child’s NYCSA account.
To view your child’s report card, go to the NYCSA account that you created with your email address for your child. Under “Student Documents” you will be able to view and print your child’s report cards.
Update From the DOE
☕December Coffee and Conversations
Upcoming Events
- December 19th: PJ School Spirit Day
- December 20th: 1-102 trip to Bayside Historical Society; Winter Color School Spirit Day
- December 21st: 1-118 trip to Bayside Historical Society; World Peace School Spirit Day; PTA Meeting on Zoom at 7:00 p.m. virtually
- December 22nd: Alley Pond in-class visit to PreK B8 and B9; Wish School Spirit Day
- December 23rd: Royals Merch School Spirit Day; Student/Teacher Basketball game- students only
- December 24th to January 2nd: Winter Recess
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
- 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 12th: CDEC meeting 7:00 p.m. via Zoom
- January 16th: No School- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- January 17th: Family DEI Meeting 9:30 a.m. via Zoom
- January 18th: 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
- January 25th: NYHS begins for 3rd grade- Picturing Black History
- January 27th: Student DEI Meeting 7:30 a.m.; P.S. 188Q Winter Chorus Concert
- February 1st: Grades 1-5 Book of the Month assembly---wear P.S. 188Q trip shirt
- February 3rd: Safety Meeting via Zoom