Today was our winter show. Our students sang, danced, and played instruments to ring in the winter break! Thank you to all the families for coming out to support our students! Great job everyone! @BogotaPublic @BogotaPreschool

Winter Spirit Week Day 5: Dress to Impress! Our students looked amazing today! @BogotaPublic @BogotaPreschool

Winter Spirit Week Day 4: Festive Sweater Day! @BogotaPublic

Steen School would like to congratulate the December Staff Member of the Month: Mrs. Julie Vinci! Mrs. Vinci has been teaching in Bogota for the past 7 years. She began as a preschool teacher in Bixby and then moved to Steen School to teach first grade. This year, she moved up to second grade with many of her students. She absolutely loves it! Mrs. Vinci is an excellent team player. She enjoys collaborating and co-teaching with other staff members in the building. Her class is built upon the saying 'our class is a family.' Each day, she makes her students feel valued and appreciated. As a result, she has great rapport with her second graders and they are eager to come to school each and every day. Mrs. Vinci always brings fun and creative ideas to the classroom and is always up for new challenges. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends. Her other hobbies include cooking and traveling. A fun fact about Mrs. Vinci: she loves to collect magnets from all of the places that she has traveled to! Congratulations Mrs. Vinci! Well deserved! @BogotaPublic

Day 3 of Winter Spirit Week: Festive Hat Day! @BogotaPublic

Congratulations to our Student and Staff Hawks of the Month for December! @bogotaPublic

Congratulations to our Kindness Coin recipients for December! @BogotaPublic

Day 2 of Winter Spirit Week: Candy Cane Day! Check out all those candy cane inspired outfits today! @BogotaPublic @BogotaPreschool

Last week, our students got to experience the Box Out Bullying Assembly! Students learned important strategies to help make our school a bully-free zone in a fun and interactive way! Shoutout to our counselor Ms. Pedro for organizing! @BogotaPublic

Our 5th Grade Student Council Giving Tree Initiative has concluded! We set out with a goal to collect a total of 200 toys, books, and gift cards for families within our community. Each day, our students would walk by the tree wanting to understand the purpose of the collection. After a presentation to the entire school and several announcements from our Student Council Members, our students set out on a mission to give back to our community. They would eagerly pass and check the progress meter in the hallway to see if the total number of items was closer to our goal. Our students were filled with joy stacking toys within the boxes and watching them pile up. The empathy from our students was just truly amazing and heart-warming. The outpouring from our PTO and local businesses made our initiative even more exciting! So did we meet our goal as a school and collect 200 gifts? No...WE COLLECTED 365 GIFTS!!!! We surpassed our goal and we could not be more excited! A special thank you to our students and their families for contributing to this important endeavor. Also, a great big thank you to everyone else within our community that made this HUGE collection possible: Steen School PTO, NLM Marketing, Ice House Hackensack NJ, Bounce Party Mania, Karla Jimenez Cakes and More, @Cafeteria111, and Ms. Perez and Amazon.com! Also, a special thank you to our Bogota Police Department for collaborating with us on this initiative! They have picked up the toys and will be delivering them to families within our community! @BogotaPublic

Day 1 of Winter Spirit Week: Tinsel Day! Our students and staff found many fun and creative ways to wear tinsel! @BogotaPublic

Check out our next upcoming PTO event: The Steen Elementary Hockey Game with the New Jersey Devils on January 19th! See attached flier for more information. @BogotaPublic @SteenSchoolPTO

Click the link for our Hawk Happenings Winter Vol. 1 Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/ksa8x

Hurry! Friday is the last day for our Giving Tree! Our goal is 200 items and we have 124! Almost there! We can do this Steen! @BogotaPublic

Let's have some fun before winter break! Check out next week's Winter Spirit week themes! @BogotaPublic

Save the date! Our Steen School Winter Show is on 12/20! See the attached flier for more information! @BogotaPublic @BogotaPreschool

Our Steen PTO is just AMAZING! President Kernes delivered 20 toys from our PTO for our Giving Tree! Thank you for always supporting our students' endeavors. We really appreciate you! @BogotaPublic @SteenSchoolPTO

Our PreK, K, & 1st Grade students had some special visitors today! They were able to meet & pet therapy dogs! These furry friends sure knew how to put a smile on our students' faces! Thanks so much for the memorable experience @OperationK9Beethoven @BogotaPublic @BogotaPreschool

Our Giving Tree is really growing! We have 64 donations so far! Let's keep it going! The class with the most donations will receive an ice pop party from our Student Council! Let's reach our goal of 200 toys! Last day to donate is Fri. 12/13. @BogotaPublic

The Holiday Shoppe is coming to Steen School December 9 through the 11th! Please see the attached flier for more information and to view the digital catalog. E-wallets can also be set up through the link on the flier. Happy Shopping! @BogotaPublic @SteenSchoolPTO