Come visit the Brooklyn Children’s Museum for the rumpus-filled, interactive Wild Things Circle Time storytelling sessions.
In celebration of the Spike Jonze film Where the Wild Things Are, an adaptation of the classic children’s story by Maurice Sendak, the Museum rips with Wild Things Circle Time during a three-week-long, harvest-and-Halloween Monster Mash Fest.
This popular story time session is offered every museum day through the rest of October and gives young visitors (ages 5 and under) a chance to put on their
When I was growing up, my dad had a Super 8 movie camera — no sound — and he made little movies of family occasions. Looking at them today, it seems we did a lot of waving at the camera, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. By my senior year in high school, the camera wasn’t getting much use any {read more...}
The Department of Education will host high school fairs in every borough this weekend that will assist students and their families in choosing a high school.
The fairs will be open to the public on Saturday, October 24 and Sunday,
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COURT STREET – Wednesday at the Department of Education office building at 65 Court St., Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Deputy Dennis Walcott and Chancellor Joel I. Klein launched an enhanced 311 service for public school families that
At Puppetry Arts Theatre’s Haunted Halloween Carnival
The 4th Annual Haunted Halloween Carnival of Puppetry Arts will be held Saturday October 31 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Park Slope, at the 1st Street Recreation Center of P.S. 372 between
This past weekend AGAST launched the AGAST kids Art Exhibition during their 13th Annual Open Studio Tour. AGAST artists collaborated with children of P.S. 58, The Carroll School, to create an art exhibit titled: “Our Hopes & Dreams for the Gowanus Canal.”
The art was produced by the entire fourth grade class; 75 students participated under the guidance and direction of their art teacher Megan Kimball. The fourth-graders worked collaboratively to create paintings/collages around the theme of the Gowanus Canal. They were informed by research, on-site visits, their own perceptions of the canal and AGAST artist visits by Regina Perlin, Francis Sills, and Ella Yang. The culmination of the project is
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, school and health officials urged parents to complete and return the consent forms being sent home starting this week that allow children to take advantage of the free H1N1 flu vaccinations being offered in schools this {read more...}
PROSPECT PARK — The Prospect Park Zoo’s SPARKS (Supporting Parents in Advocacy, Reform, and Knowledge in Science) workshop offers a unique opportunity for parents to help make science accessible for kids through hands-on activities, animal encounters, and other interactive teaching {read more...}
BROOKLYN — Teens at the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club’s Thomas S. Murphy Clubhouse in Brooklyn will finally have a positive place to hang out and call their own, thanks to a partnership between Boys & Girls Clubs of {read more...}
Catalog for Giving Supports
Extracurricular Programming
BROOKLYN — Faced with budget cuts, many schools have to make the difficult decision to eliminate after-school programming. The Catalog for Giving, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of under-privileged New York City children,
From Japanese ‘Invader
Crab’ to Starfish to Plankton
By Mary Frost
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK — Students from a marine biology course at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights made plankton tows out of stockings and jars and put on waders to go seining in the East River at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
(Note—a seine is a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water.)
Some expressed amazement that anything at all lived in the river, which one girl called “our local sewage” — an
An exciting program of readings by P.S. 8 students and faculty will kick off the P.S. 8 2009 Book Fair and Read-a-thon on Thursday, October 22, at the Court Street Barnes & Noble. Stephen Ringold, a.k.a. Mr. Meatloaf, a veteran of the Big Apple Circus and a P.S. 8 dad, will host the program, which starts at 6 p.m.
During the week of the Book Fair, any Barnes & Noble purchase made using a P.S. 8 voucher will result in a
Now your 8-11 year old can have a holiday adventure at Prospect Park Zoo. When school is closed, send your child to the zoo for two days of fun, learning and exploration. Kids will learn what strategies animals use to survive the winter in Brooklyn and around the world as they:
Meet animals like chinchillas, tenrecs ans snakes ,who hibernate, change their colors and use other special cold weather adaptations;
Come face to face with an owl and act as scientists to
Department of Education (DOE) middle school fairs begin on October 13, and run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Students will receive applications at their elementary school in November; they are due by December 15. Students in Districts 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, and 30 who plan to apply to Academically Enriched Programs should submit the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) “request for testing” form by October 28. Students who plan to apply to Mark Twain
Faced with budget cuts, many schools have to make the difficult decision to eliminate after-school programming. The Catalog for Giving, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of under-privileged New York City children supports programs, such as Opening Act, that {read more...}
