Paw Prints: 1/28/2024 (28 de enero de 2024)

January 28, 2024

This issue is bilingual in English and Spanish.

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SAVE THE DATES/Apunten estas Fechas:

• ESL 2 class: Monday, January 29 and Wednesday January 31 from 4 to 6 PM./ El lunes, 29 de enero y el miércoles, 31 de enero de 4 a 6 PM en el salón 102.

• ESL 1 class: Tuesday, January 30 and Thursday February 1 from 4 to 6 PM./La clase de inglés nivel 1: martes, 30 y jueves, 1ro. de febrero de 4 a 6 PM en el salón 102.

Production After School Team will meet starting on Thursday, January 18, 2024. El equipo de producción de teatro comenzarán a reunirse por las tardes a partir del jueves, 18 de enero de 2024.

Our next Parent Council Meeting: Wednesday, February 14, 2024—ZOOM Meeting—-from 7 to 8 PM: This is the link for this meeting: https://k12-bostonpublicschools.zoom.us/j/84608570005 La próxima reunión del Consejo de Padres de Curley será el miércoles, 14 de febrero de 2024 de 7 a 8 PM. El enlace es este: https://k12-bostonpublicschools.zoom.us/j/84608570005. Habrá un intérprete que hable español.

Samantha DeArmas, School Psychologist. Samantha works most of the time with the Special Education Department and is present at their meetings. She also sees some of our students. You can find her in the CASP room, Office #3.

Mr. Gilberto Hernandez is a substitute teacher in our school. He has covered many classrooms both in the elementary grades as well as the middle school grades. Mr. Hernandez has been working for the Curley for more than 10 years and he loves be surrounded by young and curious students!

BPS FOOD WASTE REDUCTION PROGRAM

Look at the three bins: the green (composting), the blue for recycling and the grey for trash.

Dear Curley Parents and Caregivers,

The Curley K-8 School is going to be part of a growing number of schools whose aim is to reduce the amount of waste produced at lunch. The composting itself will happen offsite, but at our school we are going to separate certain items. Our school will start this program on Monday, January 29, 2024.

There are going to be 3 containers: green, blue and gray.

The green container will be used for food waste and compostable materials.

The blue container will be used for recyclable materials.

The gray container will be used for regular trash and trays.

What’s compostable?

Food leftovers, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meats, bones, fats (small amounts), napkins. It is very important that only compostable items are put into green containers. Trash and recycling will contaminate the food waste collected and result in fees for BPS and food waste being trashed.

What’s not compostable?

Plastic wrap and plastic bags; plastic, metal, or glass of any kind; bottles and cans; straws; snack bags; liquids; styrofoam, and trays.

Thank you in advance for your support of the food waste reduction pilot at your school. Waste-reduction strategies will require changes in our behaviors – a little effort will make a big difference in protecting our environment and ensuring all students and staff attend healthy and sustainable schools.

Contact
Virginia Leary, BPS Zero Waste & Sustainability Project Manager
847-693-0341, vleary@bostonpublicschools.org

Resources

BPS Healthy and Sustainable Schools Zero Waste Boston

bostongreenschools.org boston/gov/zero-waste-boston

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Katie Grassa, Ed.D (she/her/hers)

Principal

Curley K-8 | Boston Public Schools

493 Centre Street, Boston MA 02130

kgrassa@bostonpublicschools.org | 617-635-8239

Programa de Reducción de Desperdicios de Alimentos

Estimados Padres y Cuidadores de Curley,

Nuestra escuela Curley K-8 forma ahora parte de un gran número de escuelas donde la meta es reducir la cantidad de desperdicios producidos en la cafetería después de haber desayunado y almorzado. El compostaje ocurrirá en otro lugar, pero en la Curley vamos a separar una variedad de artículos. Este programa ayudará grandemente a reducir la cantidad de basura que se echa a diario en la cafetería y reducirá el costo tanto monetario como climático, ya que estaremos utilizando este material como fertilizante en tierras donde se van a cosechar vegetales y frutas! El programa comenzará este lunes, 29 de enero de 2024.

Utilizaremos 3 contenedores: uno verde, uno azul y uno gris.

El contenedor verde se usará para la comida como desperdicio además de otros materiales que puedan ser compostables.

El contenedor azul se usará para reciclar.

El contenedor gris es para la basura que no se puede reciclar ni tampoco compostar.

¿Qué se puede compostar? Sobras de comida, frutas, vegetales, productos lácteos, carnes, huesos, grasa en pequeñas cantidades y servilletas. Es sumamente importante que solamente se echen estos artículos en el contenedor verde. Los materiales reciclables y la basura que caigan en este contenedor van a contaminar y dañar todo lo que se echó en el contenedor y este no podrá ser compostable.

¿Qué no se puede compostar? Envolturas de plástico, bolsas/fundas plásticas; plástico, metal, cristal de cualquier clase; botellas, latas: pajitas/sorbetes: envolturas de dulces, líquidos, “styrofoam” o poliestireno y bandejas.

Les agradecemos por adelantado su apoyo con este programa piloto. Nuestros hijos(as) y el personal de la escuela van a aprender nuevas estrategias para poder implementar este nuevo programa que ayudará mucho a nuestro medio ambiente.

Contacto:
Virginia Leary, BPS Zero Waste & Sustainability Project Manager
847-693-0341, vleary@bostonpublicschools.org

Recursos:

BPS Healthy and Sustainable Schools Zero Waste Boston

bostongreenschools.org boston/gov/zero-waste-boston

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Katie Grassa, Ed.D (she/her/hers)

Principal/Directora

Curley K-8 | Boston Public Schools

493 Centre Street, Boston MA 02130

kgrassa@bostonpublicschools.org | 617-635-8239

We had our third and last in-person preview for our future parents this past Tuesday, January 23. We had a large number of parents interested in visiting our k1 and k2 classrooms. Principal Grassa addressed the group of parents followed by a time for questions and answers. Then they took a tour of our school and left impressed. I showed them the playground and told them that our present Curley Parent Council members were working with a 1 million grant that would pay for the construction of a brand-new playground for our lower school students.

FROM THE DESK OF MS. TAYLOR-KNIGHT, DANCE/MOVEMENT & THEATER TEACHER:

Our production team began Thursday, January 18th. Here is a group shot of our very creative students who will be working on design for both Annie and Moana./Nuestro equipo de producción comenzó el pasado jueves, 18 de enero. En la foto pueden apreciar al grupo creativo encargados del diseño de ambos musicales: Annie y Moana.
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