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Extra! Extra! The MS8 Gaz8 is Here!
Read the latest news from our middle school: games, news from across the world and across the street, and MS 8 goes 80′s! The MS 8 Gaz8 is published by our middle school’s Kids Cre8 after-school...
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And Now For a Movie from PS 8′s Green Team . . .
Do you know how much waste we produce in the United States? How much is recyclable? PS 8 now collects and separates lunchtime food scraps, recyclables, and trash at all lower school lunch periods. Our...
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Read Our Lower School Newspapers!
Now everyone can read the newest Kids Cre8 lower school Newspaper Club papers: The PS8 Times from winter session’s Monday club, and the PS8 Post from Tuesday’s club. Find out what our students think...
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Connection, Collaboration & Community
This year’s 20-week Guggenheim residencies with PS 8 third and fourth graders wrapped up last week with celebrations both at school and at the museum. Learn more about the program, curricular...
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Studio in a School: Portraits and Landscapes
Our long-time partner Studio in a School recently finished two 14-week visual art residencies with our kindergarten and first grade classes with exhibits in our school’s auditorium. Every year, Studio...
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5th Grade Drama with Lincoln Center: Superman 2050
The Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) is a program that enriches the lives of many people with the art of drama. Our school has been privileged to be a part of this program for about 6 weeks. During each...
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Middle School Exploration Expo: Spring 2014
Our second year at PS 8′s middle school ended not with a whimper but a bang, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot’s final stanza of “The Hollow Men.” We had our final Exploration celebration and it was quite a...
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Summer Mailing for 1st-5th Grades Sent Last Week
If your child will be in grades 1-5 this school year at PS 8 and you haven’t received the summer mailing, which should include information about your child’s teacher for the coming year, feel free to...
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Joanna Barth-Werb — Math
Contact info: jbarthwerb@ms8brooklyn.org What is your background and education? I am originally from Nyack, New York, a small town in Rockland County. I graduated from Boston University, where I...
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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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Welcome to the 2014-15 School Year!
UPD8: Due to a permit issue, the Kindergarten Outing to Empire-Fulton Ferry Lawn in DUMBO has been rescheduled to Friday, September 5! A little information about back-to-school events for new lower and...
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We Have Some Serious 3rd Grade Gardeners!
Our third graders got to bring home tiny cabbage plants at the end of last year, and some worked serious gardening magic. Avery, pictured above, nurtured hers into a 8 pound giant! Find out more about...
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Exploration #1: Middle School Community!
MS 8 created a fun and interesting way to learn about community. I thought it would be boring, but we did entertaining projects (like marble olympics and scavenger hunts) that taught us different...
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“We’re In The Band.”
Thanks to a grant of instruments we received from VH1 Save The Music two years ago, fourth and fifth graders can elect to join our concert band, run by our very own music teacher and experienced band...
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Come On Over To The Other Side
The Other Side is very inspiring to young girls to stand up and to be brave. – Jadelle L. Every Tuesday, former Kids Orbit Musical Theatre Specialist Melanie Closs teaches “The Other Side...
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And Reporting From Our Library . . .
This is Claudia Flamm reporting from the stacks of the PS 8 library of the lower school. I am a page. Pages assist Ms. Green by shelving books and finding books for teachers (from K-5th grade). Pages...
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All About “Out Lunch”
One of the best parts of being at PS 8’s middle school is going to “out-lunch.” Not all middle schools have “out-lunch” and almost no elementary schools do. Out-lunch means kids get to go out to...
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2nd Grade: How a Field Trip Enriches Learning
Where does the water that flows through New York City’s taps come from? Last Friday, second graders took the A train to the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Performing Arts Center in...
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It’s Time to be Heard on PS 8 Overcrowding!
November 20th, 6:30-8pm, at Plymouth Church. Read and sign two letter petitions!
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