PS 130, The Parkside School

PS 130 PTA is gearing up for the Spring Book Fair coming March 15–19, 2010!

sod12 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:44:05 +0000

* Watch backpacks for book catalog and related fliers.

* We encourage everyone to visit our Book Fair website to read up on featured titles, make a wish list, and more!

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/publish/15k130pa

Filed under: For Parents, For Students, For Teachers Tagged: PTA

How-to Shut Down Laptops by 2nd Graders

Mr. Stegman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:11:20 +0000

This video will teach you how to shut down your laptops which was narrated by Samantha and Paulino

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: tutorials

How To Videos: Google Docs, and Posting to this Website!

ps130teacher — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:54:12 +0000

This first video, narrated by Olivia & Siema, teaches you how to use Google Docs:

This next video, narrated by Olivia & Siema, teaches you how to post videos and text to this website:

Filed under: For Students, For Teachers, Teaching Resources Tagged: 2nd grade, Mr. Tantillo's Class, Olivia, Siema

IMPORTANT PTA DATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sod12 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:20:29 +0000

Mark your calendar with these important PTA dates!

January–June 2010

PTA Meetings:

January 30
February 11
March 25
April 22*
May 27**

(*PTA Executive Board Nominations, **PTA Executive Board Elections)

Book Fair: March 15–19

PTA Spring Dance: April 30

Brooklyn PTA Walk/Run in Prospect Park: May 1

Mother’s Day Sale: May 6 & 7

Flea Market: June 5

Teacher’s Appreciation Day Lunch: June 17 (Early Dismissal)

Senior Dance: June 23

If you can volunteer, please save these dates for PTA!

We can always use your help!

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Sharks eat almost anything, by Ermin & Dondre

ps130teacher — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:56:38 +0000

Today we searched Google Images for “sharks predators”. We learned that sharks eat almost anything, like sea lions, turtles, and other sharks. The only predator of a shark is fishermen.

Filed under: For Students Tagged: 2nd grade, Ms. Toomey's Class

Blue Morpho Butterfly, by Sadie & Sa’Mya

ps130teacher — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:43:00 +0000

We were wondering why butterflies have designs on their backs. Maybe the designs help them blend in so predators don’t see them.

Filed under: For Students Tagged: 2nd grade, Ms. Toomey's Class

Class 2-402 Covers The 2010 Olympics

ps130teacher — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:32:39 +0000

The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada from February 12th-28th. Nations from all over the world will compete in many winter sports.

Some of the nations are Germany, Norway, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Austria.

Some of the sports include figure skating, curling, hockey, speed skating, bobsledding, and snowboarding.

Filed under: For Students Tagged: 2nd grade, Mr. Tantillo's Class

Class 2-401 and 2-407’s A

Mr. Rhys, TMS — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:10:27 +0000

Ms. Angelo’s class and Ms. Nemer’s class were searching for images today. They added images that they found on the Internet using “Key Words”, and then reported facts from their research along with the images.

Click here to see our Voicethread!

Filed under: For Students Tagged: 2nd grade, Ms. Angelo's Class, Ms. Nemer's Class

Mackenzie’s Parrot photo

ps130teacher — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:49:10 +0000

Why do parrots talk?

I found this picture by searching the Internet for the key word "parrot".

Filed under: For Students Tagged: 2nd grade, Ms. Toomey's Class

olivias squirrel pic

ps130teacher — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:28:42 +0000

I found this picture by googling in the search bar. My key words were: squirrel nut tree eating

Filed under: For Students Tagged: 2nd grade, Mr. Tantillo's Class