Advisory Holiday Door Decoration Competition


There is an exciting upcoming event for the holiday season…a door decorating competition with a pizza party for the advisory group who wins! The list of holidays beneath this email will be put into a hat and teachers will be asked to choose 1 at random. Your advisory group will research this holiday and decorate […]

The Piano Lesson


The Piano Lesson written by August Wilson is a play about a family torn between selling a piano for profit or keeping it to save their family history. Most of the play is centered around Boy Willie and his sister Berniece’s conflict on whether they should sell their piano or not. Boy Willie wanted to […]

Mr. Gaspar’s Soundbox


  Walk into Mr. Gaspar’s music class and you’ll be greeted by the sounds of drums, guitars, xylophones, and symbols. These sounds are all in preparation for the upcoming school show. In the next show the students are focusing on Latin music, women history & drumming. The M.S. 343 community is looking forward to seeing how […]

Valuable Math Lessons


Are you wondering what the sixth graders have been learning in their math classes? Let’s take a glance inside the math classroom. Earlier in the marking period Ms.Ueno’s 6th grade class was exploring ratio tables and proportions. Ratio tables, proportions, why learn this? Have you ever gone to two stores, which are both promoting sales […]

War Horse : A Powerful Story of the Truest Friendship


“War Horse” the play premiered in 2007; A war drama about a boy named Albert who builds a loyal friendship with a horse named Joey. The friendship is turned from beautiful to heartbreaking when the horse is taken away to war. While Joey is at war, Albert joins the army to look for him. Isn’t that just […]

Earthquakes


What exactly causes earthquakes? It seems that this question has become more popular among New Yorkers after experiencing earthquake aftershocks at home. Well let’s take a closer look at earthquakes. Earth is made up of several layers working our way from the inside out we have the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. The places where […]

Help Save Our Rainforest


A rainforest can be described as a tall, dense jungle. The reason it is called “rain” forest is because of the high amount of rainfall it gets per year. This environment is not only very humid but hot as well. Rain forests are often called the lungs of the planet for their role in absorbing carbon dioxide […]