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Renaissance School of the Arts
Family Newsletter
Our newsletter is a great way to keep you informed and connected to all that’s happening at school. Each edition includes important updates, upcoming events, classroom highlights, and celebrations of student achievements. You’ll also find helpful reminders, messages from staff, and opportunities to get involved. Whether it’s a peek into daily classroom activities or a heads-up about school-wide events, our newsletter is here to support communication and keep our school community strong.
September 2025
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Link to Learning
Open a world of reading. Try Sora, the new reading app for students using your student's DOE Student email and Password.
This site offers subject-specific Parent Primers, which help you dust off old spelling rules, revisit the three branches of government, see different geometric shapes, and more. Plus, with their Flash Card Maker you can make your own math and vocabulary flashcards, and with their Spelling Wizard you can make a word scramble or word search that helps kids learn their spelling list in fun ways.
Khan Academy is a nonprofit that aims to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere." The site offers a growing library of high-quality educational videos that can help parents brush up on school subjects or guide their child through homework with evidence and visual aids, which are big concepts in the Common Core. Whether you're looking for a crash course in world history or biology, or even just basic math concepts, there are nicely paced videos on almost every topic. There are even videos to help kids learn computer programming or prepare for the SAT.
A qualified, licensed classroom teacher is available Monday – Thursday, 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. when school is in session.
The UFT's award-winning Dial-a-Teacher program is a homework help line for elementary and middle school students attending New York City public schools.
Fact Monster is part of Family Education Network and is a free reference site for children, teachers, and parents. Fact Monster's homework center offers online math flashcards for kids to practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills, and a conversion calculator for all kinds of units of measurement. The site also offers an atlas, almanac, and encyclopedia, plus loads of writing assignment advice, including how to write an essay, biography, and bibliography. The U.S. almanac is a lifesaver when your child is writing a report on one of the 50 states!