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Week 8: May 11 - May 15

To date, nearly 400 P.S. 197 students have ordered internet enabled laptops from the NYC Department of Education. Our Outreach Team continues to provide families with technical support in multiple languages. Our teachers continue to reach out to their students on a daily basis to offer assistance in whatever way is needed. We are very proud of our staff and school. For the past few weeks, our remote learning attendance has been 92% or better. Thank you to everyone in the PS 197 community, especially our families, for their support of remote learning.

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Our kids continue to add inspirational artwork to the world.

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Ms. Alfredson challenged students to create mandalas from objects in their homes. This resourceful student created a mandala from markers, erasers and pushpins!

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Ms. Rotter has her students work on activities to build up self-esteem and perseverance.

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Ms. Colley challenged our students to figure out the best way to trap cane toads. Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1936. Farmers were hoping that if they brought these toads to Australia, they would eat the beetles harming Australian crops. The cane toads became an invasive species instead and are still a problem in Australia today.

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We are so happy that our children are continuing to write, write, write. This student wrote about the project her family made for Teacher Appreciation Week.

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Students in Grade 3 are continuing to learn about cultures around the world. This design was inspired after learning about Adire cloth that is made in Nigeria.

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Students in Class 1-305 participated in a cool experiment using milk, soap and food coloring last week.

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Students are writing about important moments in their lives.

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Ms. Colley challenged our Kindergarteners to create homemade marble mazes from toilet paper rolls. Our kids created ingenious designs.

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Ms. McFeeley's kids are learning all about clouds.

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Ms. Colley challenged our fifth graders to design a way of dropping food to places in need. The challenge? Design packaging that would protect the crackers from breaking when they fell. This is a diagram one of our fifth graders dreamed up.

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This student proudly displays the addition sentences that he modeled with ten frames.

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Ms. Alfredson challenged our students in PK-2 to create paper houses to show how

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Students in K-211 learned all about the ospreys in Jamaica Bay.

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One of our students was inspired to create this after a virtual trip to an art museum.

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One of our kids submitted this beautiful watercolor.

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Our students continue to practice ballet with Ms. Flanagan at home.

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Students created posters welcoming birds to Brooklyn.

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Students record what surprised them as they read.

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K-211 students created posters inviting birds to new homes. Many of the posters included helpful diagrams showing where the birds could eat and live.

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The kids in 1-305 had so much fun experimenting with a concoction of milk, soap and food coloring. The reactions created amazingly colorful designs.

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One of our students wrote about a day in the park.

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We are so proud of the way our students continue to develop their literacy skills.

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One of our students wrote about a day of shopping.

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Our students had fun making silly faces as they made up dances for Ms. Flanagan this week.

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Mr. Richford challenged kids to devise landscaping designs using Tinkercad. This student was actually able to duplicate the pretty garden outside her apartment building.

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Our students have truly developed green thumbs this year. Many of our kids shared photos of the things they have planted. The seeds started to sprout this week.

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This fifth grader found a way to use a pencil box to safely drop crackers from the air.

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Students stop to jot down what they learned from non-fiction books.

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This student created a beautiful diagram detailing the steps in the water cycle.

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Another amazing marble maze created by a kindergartener!

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One of our second graders proudly tends her garden while she is learning from home.

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Our students had fun making up dances and were encouraged to make faces as they were doing so.

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This is another example of landscaping designs created by one of our fifth graders on Tinkercad.

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Yay!!! The seeds that our kids planted at home have finally started to sprout. They have been excitedly sharing photos of their gardens with Mr. Richford.