{"id":264871,"date":"2026-08-13T22:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264871\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:23:22","slug":"bethlehem-area-school-district-teachers-surprise-kindergarteners-with-welcome-packages-at-home-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264871\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Area School District teachers surprise kindergarteners with welcome packages at home | Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; Kids in the Bethlehem Area School District got a chance to see their teachers Thursday before stepping into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Fountain Hill and Donegan Elementary Schools staff surprised incoming kindergarteners at their homes with a welcome package to kickoff the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Broughal Middle School staff also met incoming students at their homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got to get kids to kind of come out of their shell a little bit and kind of see a familiar face,&#8221; said Donegan Elementary School teacher, Jessica Suarez. &#8220;So, it was just really exciting to do that and just be able to connect with families that aren&#8217;t able to always come to every event, so it was just really nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Community meet-and-greets were also held at Fountain Hill and Yosko parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; Kids in the Bethlehem Area School District got a chance to see their teachers Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391,233],"class_list":["post-264871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}