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<em><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:#6f6f6f">The Official Newsletter of The Neighborhood School
<br>December 16, 2019
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<li><a href="#m_4270705436109976525_m_-3809568838089029427_WHATUP" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:200%">What's Up This Week</span></span></a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;color:#222222"><span style="color:#222222"><a href="#m_4270705436109976525_m_-3809568838089029427_HOLIDAYFAIR" style="text-decoration:none"></a>Pick Up Original Works</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;color:#222222"><span style="color:#222222">Committee Announcements</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif">Nominate STEM Teacher</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color:#222222"><a href="#m_4270705436109976525_m_-3809568838089029427_CONNECT" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:200%">Stay Connected</span></a></span></li>
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<br>Auction Commitee, 8:30am
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<br><strong>WEDNESDAY 12/18</strong>
<br>Art Committee, 8:30am
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<br><strong>THURSDAY, 12/19</strong>
<br>Garden to Cafe
<br>PTA General Meeting, 8:30am
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<br><strong>FRIDAY, 12/20</strong>
<br>Garden Committee, 8:30am
<br>SING, 8:45am
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<br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:#000000"><strong>MONDAY 12/23 TO WEDNESDAY JAN 1</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:#000000">
<br><strong>WINTER RECESS</strong> - <strong>SCHOOLS CLOSED </strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<br><strong><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">TUESDAY 12/17</span></strong></p>
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<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Honey Corn Muffin</span>
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<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Salad Bar Traditional</span>
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<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Home Fries</span>
<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Grab-n-Go Chicken Caesar Salad</span>
<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Salad Bar Burger/Sandwich Fixin's</span>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Vegetarian Chili Served with Rice</span>
<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Roasted Zucchini</span>
<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Fresh New York Apples</span>
<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Grab-n-Go Chicken Caesar Salad</span>
<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Salad Bar Taco Bar Featuring Roasted Tomato Salsa</span>
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<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Pizza</span></p>
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<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Salad Bar Pizza Toppings Featuring Balsamic Chickpea Salad</span></p>
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<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Thursday 12/19: <span style="color:#d0021b">Morning drop off (7:45-8:45am)</span></span>
<br><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Friday 12/20: <span style="color:#0000ee"><strong>LAST CHANCE Afternoon pick up (2:30-3:15pm)</strong></span></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">If you or someone you know have a skill/craft/art that you would like to share, please let us know! We're specifically looking for dancers, musicians, drama, and other visual arts such as origami, bookmaking, and mixed media. You can contact Amy at <a href="mailto:apoueymirou@gmail.com" target="_blank">apoueymirou@gmail.com</a> AND fill out this form <a href="http://clt1092695.benchurl.com/c/l?u=97C11AC&e=F505F0&c=10AC57&t=0&l=3203B5F9&email=EbkCqEcSLzqlu9ejLNGcp5q4wOJ2jUnu&seq=1" target="_blank">here</a>. Haven't led a workshop for kids before? No worries! We can help with the formatting of the workshop to ensure it's a success!</span></div>
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<br>This month is all about setting your intentions for the upcoming year! There are tons of ways to cut down on your own personal waste and make the planet a better place for everyone! This chart has ideas for something you can do for almost each week of 2020. Even if you only do 1 or 2 of these, it'd be a great step in the right direction!</span></div>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">NBC 4 New York and Telemundo 47 have once again announced the Star Teacher Awards. Do you have a favorite S.T.E.M. teacher that you’d like to recognize?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">The application for nominations is currently live <a>through December 31.</a> Please visit <a href="http://clt1092695.benchurl.com/c/l?u=97BFCAB&e=F505F0&c=10AC57&t=0&l=3203B5F9&email=EbkCqEcSLzqlu9ejLNGcp5q4wOJ2jUnu&seq=1" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">
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<em> </em>to nominate our next class of “Star Teachers”. The winners will be announced in March 2020 and receive a special cash prize for their classrooms.</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">In the past, backpack mail has been another way to communicate with parents, but many of us have expressed a strong interest in conserving the use of paper for environmental reasons and we have heard that most parents prefer electronic communication. We are also mindful that backpack mail frequently takes teachers' precious time to organize. Not to mention, some of us have experienced the consequences of imperfect mail-carriers (our wonderful children!) and have had backpack mail arrive soggy and crumpled beyond legibility (it has happened!).</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Over the next few months, we will be surveying parents (both through online and offline methods) to identify the best ways reach them and, based on that research, will develop a more complete policy around PTA communications. In the meantime, backpack mail is reserved for official school communications that cannot be effectively delivered any other way. If you have information to share with the school community, please email <a href="mailto:ptaparentengagement@tnsny.org" target="_blank">ptaparentengagement@tnsny.org</a> and have it added to the weekly newsletter or ask how best to share that information with the school.
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<br>You baked and popped popcorn and made a Movie Night and a Halloween Party and a Holiday Fair! You chaperoned field trips and brought snacks and shelved books in the library and worked in the garden and went to meetings and shared thoughts and smiles and learned names and played "Monster" after school on the playground with other people's kids and did any one of the million tiny things that no one sees or says thank you for but that make this school function and thrive and all I can say is THANK YOU A THOUSAND TIMES OVER!
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<em><span style="color:#7f7f7f;font-size:12px"><span style="color:#7f7f7f"><span style="color:#383838">View the livestream of PTA meetings here!
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<em><span style="color:#7f7f7f;font-size:12px"><span>Our Facebook Group and Instagram Page is private and for current TNS families only
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