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P9 Walter Reed News

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June 19, 2015

The P9 Debate Team

Principal:
Robert S. Wojnarowski
Assistant Principals:
Lynda Dobrin
John Gonzalez,
Janet Brozyna-Lee
Donna Addison

From Left To Right: Saccara James, Kevin Edwards,

Joshua Douglas, and Sergio Berdecia

A debate is an argument with rules. Two teams are given a

topic and then they come up with an argument in a very short
period of time. One team will argue for the topic (pro) and
another team will argue against (con).
The Green Dragon Team, the very cool name of the P9Q
debate team, works very hard before every debate. This year
they had to research very complicated topics like the banning
of plastic bags, the use of drones, and the removal of guns
from the NYPD.
The Green Dragons, led by Mr. LaScala, has even
experimented with different and unique styles of debating.
This year the Green Dragons team participated in three
debates.

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Gardening at the Main Site.

Gardening done
at the Main Site
on Earth Day.

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Autism Event
On April 30th, the wonderful staff at PS009@882 held an
Autism event to celebrate its magnificent students. School
therapists, teachers and administration were all there to
support and help raise awareness for the cause. There was
information on effective intervention strategies available
for parents. The Autism event was filled with activities for
the students to enjoy. There were sensory stations, hands
on activities and a bouncy house. Everyone had a blast!

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Over the past two school years, Arts Connection provided two very successful puppetry
residencies for our students in grades K-8. P009Q. This past year we received a grant from the
Office of Arts and Family Engagement to develop an art program to engage our families in
unique art experiences and these funds were used to continue to work with Arts Connection.
We knew from experience with Arts Connection that the arts motivate and inspire our students
to improve their performance in all disciplines. As part of this grant we were also able to
involve the larger school community of teachers, paraprofessionals and related service staff in
the workshops. As a result they will be able to make connections to infuse instruction while
building stronger relationships among disciplines.

Our goal was to create five family workshops in visual arts, dance and music at five school
locations. Each workshop was designed to meet the cognitive, social and physical abilities of
the student body inherent at each school location. The funding from this project enabled us to
strengthen and deepen our relationships with parents. It also provided our families, their
teachers and the entire school community with the opportunity to see their children and our
students as successful not only in the arts but in their overall school performance. By
involving our parents in meaningful arts experiences in workshops designed for them, they
were able to gain a firsthand appreciation of the arts as a personal source of enjoyment and
learning for their entire family.

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Whats going on at 58?

Class Z52, Mrs.

DeNicola, listened
to a variety of
stories about
Ocean Animals
and created their
own ocean
environment.

Class X51,Mrs.
Myftaraj,
listened to The
Little Flower
Seed by S.
Fisch and
Maisy Grows
a Garden by L.
Cousins.
Students
responded to
text by
decoarting the
bulletin board.

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Whats going on at 58? (Continued)

Class Z51, Mrs. Sarlo,

is learning about farm
animals by attending
to informational texts.

Then created farm animals

for our bulletin board and
made pudding with cows
milk for a multi sensory
experience.

Class V51, Mrs. Saavedra-Ortega, learned about Spring from

our book of the Month I See Spring and gave 5 facts about
the season.

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Whats Going on at 58? (Continued)

Class Z53 and V52, Ms. Lee and Mrs. Baxter, collaborated on a
unit about the 5 senses. Students created multi-sensory artwork
and learned new vocabulary words to describe and respond to
sensory input.

Mr. Sorenson
and Mrs.
Sesenton
collaborated to
respond to
literature. (The
Very Hungry
Catepillar.

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Whats going on at 58? (Continued)

Work done in
Literacy class with
Mr. Budd.

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Class X11 is learning about their senses

with Mrs. Franceschina
After Reading "My Five Senses," Students Identified The 5
Senses & Their Corresponding Body Parts
Together As A Class, We Compiled A List Based On The
Following Activities:
Feel: Hands/Touch
(Students were presented
with objects hidden in a
paper bag, and identified
the sense of touch and the
body part associated with
it)
Cotton Balls,Sand Paper
Play Dough, Rock&,Leaf

Smell: Nose
(Students were given
cotton balls soaked
with scents, and
identified the sense of
smell and the body
part associated with it)
Mint,Orange,&Vanilla

Taste: Mouth &

Tongue
(Students were
given different
foods to eat, and
identified the sense
of taste and the
body part
associated with it)

Sight: Eyes
(Students were given
pictures, labeled what
they saw, and identified
the sense and the body
part associated with it)
-House,Car, &Person

Hearing: Ears
(Students were
presented with
sounds, and
identified the sense of
hearing and the body
part associated with
it)
Snap,Clap,&Music

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P9 @IS5 Bodies by Roni Aminov

Every student started with the

same shape of a body. All the
students in P9@IS5 then
decorated the body to look like
themselves.

When everyone was

finished the bodies were
hung up in the hallway.

I interviewed students from

other classes. Class V64 said :
It was a great way to get to
know students from other
classes.

Everyone said they enjoyed the experience!

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Butterflies at P9@IS5 by Bryan Barboda

Three different classes were able to order caterpillars. They
waited several days and then the caterpillars made their bodies
into the shape of the letter J. Then the caterpillars made
cocoons. The butterflies came out and lived inside the
classrooms. They sipped juice from oranges cut in half. When
the butterflies were ready the classes released the butterflies
outside.