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“Beyoncé Could Be There”
Or so longtime PS 8 parent Nick Balaban says about next Tuesday’s Night to Celebr8 Reading, “the Most Fun Important Event of the year.” Hear it in his own words in the video below. Join us for this...
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Celebr8 Chess Players & Champions
How Do You Win? Read and Learn! By Linden Bergeron-Mirsky Class 3-304 One day I went to a chess tournament. I was excited but also a little nervous. I had played in one chess tournament before. When...
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Recycle with the Green Team!
We are the PS 8 Green Team: Charlotte, Hailey, Anna, B.K., Colm, Esme, Egypt, Ruby, Marie, Jazia and Janae. We meet after school on Wednesdays. We started at the end of September. We are trying to...
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Meeting Adam Gidwitz
Have you ever seen lots of little kids all smushed together in a bouncy house that looks too small, and there’s no room to bounce? Take that, and make all the babies middle schoolers. And the bouncy...
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A Parent’s Take on Our Bridges Math Fair
Where can a PS 8 parent learn about estimation, number lines, unifix cubes, analog clocks, doubles facts, and patterns galore? In Kristen Hochleutner‘s second grade Bridges Math Workshop! That’s where...
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Great Authors & Illustrators at PS 8
“Z is for Zebra.” “Z is for Moose!” “Z is for Zelinsky!!!” Paul O. Zelinsky, Caldecott-winning illustrator and writer of numerous children’s books, and once upon a time the dad of students at PS 8,...
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Great Authors & Illustrators at PS8
“Z is for Zebra.” “Z is for Moose!” “Z is for Zelinsky!!!” Paul O. Zelinsky, Caldecott-winning illustrator and writer of numerous children’s books, and once upon a time the dad of students at PS 8,...
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Extra! Extra! The MS8 Gaz8 is Here!
Read the latest news from our middle school: recipes, games, world news, and school news! The MS 8 Gaz8 is published by our middle school’s Kids Cre8 after-school newspaper club.
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Middle School Exploration!
Rebecca DeCola, Exploration Director The first Exploration Unit of the year began this week at the middle school. This first of three Explorations, which is taking place from December 9th through 19th,...
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Extra! Extra! The Gr8 News is Here!
The lower school’s Kids Cre8 Newspaper Club published its first issue of The Gr8 News last month. Read articles about Bridges Math and Minecraft in schools, find out if your best friend is an alien,...
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Spotlight On: Middle School Kids Cre8
A Student’s Perspective I’m really glad I took the Science Club with Ms. Marcellin and the professors at St. Francis College. We got to do many cool things like go to Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park...
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PS 8 Students Support Typhoon Victims
By Mali Jackson and Noli Dement Semer (5-314) Hi! We would like to inform you about a horrible Typhoon called “Haiyan” that hit the Philippines on November 8, 2013, and destroyed many homes and killed...
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The 1st Grade Bread Unit: Yeast!
By Ansley Samson First graders are studying bread as part of their social studies curriculum focus on the needs of communities. To begin their study Ms. Long‘s class is experimenting with yeast this...
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Teacher Brandie Hayes on the Diddley Bow Project
As part of the fifth grade social studies curriculum, the students learn about the Westward Expansion period of American History and later move into a study of American Government and a study of civil...
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Presentations from the Testing Workshops
If you missed the testing workshops given earlier this week by our lower school assistant principal Bob Mikos and fifth grade teacher Brandie Hayes (lower school), and middle school Assistant Principal...
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The 1st Grade Bread Unit: Gevrek
by Zeynep Bromberg, Class 603 Last Thursday, February 27th, the first graders in Ms. Long’s class hosted Bora Bromberg’s grandma, mom and sister and they learned how to bake Turkish bread. In order to...
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Middle School Second Exploration!
Rebecca DeCola, Exploration DirectorThe 6th and 7th graders begin their second Explorations on March 10, when students again suspend their regular academic classwork to engage in a deep study of one...
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Two Hours a Month
We need your help! As a PTA, we depend on committed, creative and forward-thinking volunteers to help us maintain and improve the life of our school community. To bring new ideas to fruition and...
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Two More Hours a Month!
You’ve heard about our “2 Hours A Month” volunteering campaign, and last week you saw part 1 of Nick Balaban’s 3-part video series on volunteering. Now Nick has even more reasons to volunteer in part...
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The Final Two Hours
The PTA needs your help! The PTA depends on families to help maintain and improve the life of our school community and we are asking families to give two hours per month to support our school. Have you...
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