From the
Parent Council Excecutive Committee
SA families Bensonhurst
February 2016 Newsletter
What’s Inside 1 Opening Letter 2 How to Love Reading
Not to be Negative, But Don’t Say That
3 Engineering Fun
Cool Recess
Split in Half
4 Calendar of Upcoming Events at School and Around Town sa-bh PCEC Polina Bulman President
Madeline Vega Vice President
Lana Dziouba Secretary
sabh.pcec@gmail.com Thank you Illona Bobritsky and Elena Gorohovsky! Send pictures or calendar events anytime to contribute_sabh@yahoo.com
Just before it was time to go to the juggler’s performance, Mr. Dant announced everyone—scholars and staff—should drop everything and read. photo by Madeline Vega
Warming up to reading Drop Everything and Read is a fun way to reinforce that reading should be a priority. Author Beverly Cleary described D.E.A.R. in her book Ramona Quimby, Age 8, so D.E.A.R. programs usually celebrate on Ms. Cleary’s birthday April 12. (Beverly will turn 100 this April!) SA-BH families should feel free to drop everything and read every day. February is a great time to grab a blanket and snuggle up. Nightly reading with scholars is an amazing excuse to share more of the things you love with your scholar. You want them to know they can master physics? Read How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog. You want to brainwash them into loving the Yankees? Read Birth of a Dynasty. You want them to be more conscientious? Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. You don’t like any of those suggestions? There are books about everything—and magazines and blogs and even the captions on Pinterest! There are words all around us all the time. Once scholars have cracked the code, anything is possible. Sometimes, though, it can be intimidating for scholars to read to adults. In that case, grab more blankets and build a fort. Now if your scholar makes a mistake, no one will know. (Let’s pretend.) Maybe your scholar needs to work on using inflection and different voices? Stuffed animals can be a great audience inside that fort. Comfortable readers become confident readers.