UPDATE: 4th Annual STEM Career Day for High School Students

Due to overwhelming response here is the contact info and more details...

This program is for high schoolers.

Contact the coordinator of this event for more details:

Katherine Brown

STEMCareerDay@schools.nyc.gov

212-608-6164 ext. 112

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Are you a high school teacher? Do you work with high school students? Do you have colleagues who work with high school students?

If so, please spread the word about the 4th Annual STEM Career Day on Tuesday, November 3rd!

There are so many STEM careers in unexpected places. High School students interested in learning more about careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), are invited to participate in STEM Career Day on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 to learn first-hand about career pathways in these fields by visiting up to two New York City companies for an inside look. Participating students will get the opportunity to visit and chat with staff from the companies they visit.

Sessions take place at individual companies from 10:00-11:30am and 1:00-2:30pm.

All participants will receive a free t-shirt and a round-trip metro card. Sign up now for this amazing experience!

http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/E449B183-5FB8-4E38-A9F8-74920F75AE2D/187962/STEMCareerDay_Flyer_2016.pdf for more information about the participating companies and to register. Registration deadline is Friday, October 23, 2015. For questions,

email:  STEMCareerDay@schools.nyc.gov

FREE Awesome Middle and High School Programs

http://insideschools.org/free-programs

Check out these awesome and free programs mostly for middle and high school students.

Lots of coding, math, science, and more opportunities!!

Pickle Day is coming!!!!

http://pickleday.nyc/event-details/

We love, love, love Pickle Day. This Sunday from noon to 5pm on the Lower East Side on Orchard Street.

Come early, snack often!

Some things that works!! And some things I'm working on.

As I mentioned before, I'm not a really organized person by nature. My house is cluttered and not as clean as I prefer. However, I have been implementing some things in my life that have been helpful a la Flylady. It hasn't solved all my cleaning and organizing woes but it's made a few things easier.

First of all I keep a schmatta (rag) in both bathrooms and a toilet brush by each toilet so every time I'm in there I give it a wipe and a scrub and it's made the bathrooms much cleaner.

Also, I immediately put my keys and work ID back in my purse where it belongs so I have them when I need them. If I ever stray from that, all heck breaks loose.

I make my bed as soon as I get up and my room look much neater for it.

I strive to keep my sink free of dishes. This is a harder since our dishwasher has been broken for who knows how long. But it's nice to have clean dishes when you need them and not have a wreck in the sink.

Also, I attempt to tidy up before I go to work and before I go to bed.

Some things I'm working on:

Spending a few minutes or more every day cleaning up problem area.

Cleaning/tyding in the evening is a big deal.  I'm usually busy making or cleaning up dinner and pretty exhausted.

Keeping the the kids on schedule. I made list for them and I try to have them take out their clothes the night before but this is all with limited success.

Meal planning is always a struggle.

I'll keep you posted on my progress.

***How do you tackle daily organizing and housecleaning?****

FREE Museum Day 9-26-2015

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Next day...

While I may have had a great day I did not have a great evening. Apparently, I was unprepared for the first day of school the next day. So began the coordinating of school supply lists to the prospective students ss well and managing expectations for the following day. However morning went surprisingly smoothly and everyone made it to their destination on time. Shocker.

The only hitch was that one kid forgot lunch. No biggie, I was able to quickly deliver it in the morning.  I even had a great talk with a school staff member.

Great day

Granted it didn't start of great but all and all it was a great day.

Well, we had a few "personality issues" with some of the kid folk this morning since we had to be out of the house early on the day before school begins and other plans may have been made by them. However, we all had lots of doctors appointments (which they knew about) and other places to go so fun times had to wait.

So yes, three kids and I schlepped all around Manhattan to visit three different doctors, religious school, and an acting audition.

Plus, we we went to TD Bank to get out earned $10 bank deposit for summer reading. It "ended" on August 31st and the teller said she and her manager could not override the code to put it in the system. A few hours later at a different TD Bank I decided to give it a try and this time it worked!  The nice teller even called me to let me know it went through. So sweet of her!

We also needed lunch so I found a $1.50 per slice place. I prefer the $1 slices but they are tough to find Downtown. In fact, I was psyched to find the $1.50 spot. I asked for seven slices but the guy said it would be cheaper to get a pie which typically has eight slices. We all ate our fill and had one extra slice remaining. There was a man in the pizza place that looked like he was hungary and could barely afford the one slice he was eating. I offered it to him and he was glad to accept. My mitzvah (good deed) for the day was complete.

Later after dropping one kid off at religious school and sending another one home on a bus, my youngest and I went to Barnes and Noble to retrieve our summer book list. Yes, it was technically late but by just a day which doesn't even count in my book.

Enroute to Barnes and Noble we stopped at Trader Joes and Whole Foods for free samples. On the way back we scored free bottles of Chocolate Quick.  Yum! 

We even got our preferred bus home with little waiting.  Sweeeeeet!