P.S. 111 PTA

Date: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Join us on Saturday, May 3rd for the annual PS 111 Carnival! All families welcome.

• 5 Inflatables, including bounce houses, giant slides, and an obstacle course
• Carnival games & crafts
• Hamburgers & hot dogs from the grill
• Hand-pulled cotton candy
• Fresh-popped popcorn
• Ice cream
• Soda, seltzer, juice, and organic iced tea and lemonade

See ps111pta.org/carnival for more details!

Support our students by volunteering at the Carnival! Adult volunteers receive a free wristband ($45 value) for working two shifts. Volunteer at ps111pta.org/carnival.

The new PS 111 Community Container Garden has been set up in the large yard!

This organic garden utilizes compost produced by our small on-site composting program. Students, teachers, and PS 111 families are welcome to participate, with Ms. Greene's Pre-K class coming to plant on Friday, April 25!

Thank you to kidsgardening.org and Crescent Garden for awarding the PS 111 PTA a grant to start a community container garden program at PS 111!

Thank you for making our first PS 111 Family Reading Night a success!

We had a great turnout — between 100 and 125 PS 111 students and family members ate 250 empanadas, 120 slices of pizza, and 150 homemade cookies; listened to fun read alouds from Principal Gilligan, a Broadway actor, and parent- and teacher-volunteers; took home ~200 books; and got to know the new PS 111 library at its soft opening.

These events are run by a very small group of PS 111 parent-volunteers. Thank you! Thank you as well to the PS 111 PTA's donors and the West Side Community Fund for making this event possible.

Look for the first edition of the PS 111 Times, our new school newspaper, in your child's backpack by the end of this week!

Thank you to everyone — especially the students — who submitted work and helped start our first-ever newspaper (or at least our first-ever recent one)! Thank you as well to the West Side Community Fund for providing financial support that made our school newspaper a reality!

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