Generous Donation!
A big thank you to 6th/7th Grade parent Li Hua Wu for donating over 200 bottles of hand sanitizer to MS 131. All our students in staff will be able to take one home! Thanks!
Digital Arts Presentation
The digital arts students, under the direction of Ms. Oh, completed their 2nd Trimester projects. Lots of really interesting work, including many that directly or indirectly deal with how or students are feeling during this pandemic. Some of Ms. Starke’s music students created the original music for it.
College and Career Month
This month at 131, we learned about colleges and careers. It is never too early to start planning for the future! During our community circles and in Town Halls, we learned about the college process, what college is like, and how college can prepare you for careers. We learned that 131 students are excited to …
Red Ribbon Week Winners
For Red Ribbon Week, students created presentations to promote a “Drug Free America.” In a normal year, students would decorate the doors to their classrooms to promote the theme for the year, but in our remote world we did presentations. So many great presentations were created, and Mr. Reyes ended up choosing a first, second …
Happy Halloween from the arts department!
Check out the original spooky sounds from our music students, along with some graffiti art from our visual artists. Who said we couldn’t do great things in remote learning?
Thanksgiving Community Day
The MS 131 Community came together the day before Thanksgiving to build community. Students recorded what they are thankful for on leaves which were then put up on a different trees throughout the school. We shared in an enormous Thanksgiving feast, had a pie eating contest and a basketball tournament (congratulations 802 for winning this …