A great day at PS 676, by Nathan Weiser

Red Hook’s Harbor Middle School held their holiday spectacular showcase the last day before winter break.

It began in the auditorium with performances and videos from the school year so far. After that was finished, there were beverages, snacks, holiday crafts and photos.

The YMCA after-school program showed their holiday video titled “Mischief at 676, the Red Hook story.”

Next there was a Taekwondo demonstration. The students did Chon-Ji and then flying sidekicks across the stage.

Then a water crafts video presentation with footage of woodworking experiments as well as building the tank.

There was a special presentation by the Green Team. The Green Team’s instructors are from RETI (Resilience Education, Training and Innovation) and the Billion Oyster Project).

Next up was a performance from the upper and lower grade dance team. Ms. Shacoya is the instructor of the Harbor dance team and the YMCA dance team.

She said that she also teaches the technical part, so she shows how to clip music, how to record the music, how to use garage band and how to do sound effects.

After the video presentations and performances were finished in the auditorium, everyone went into the cafeteria for more activities and food.

On many tables in the cafeteria there were paper masks that they students spent two months working on.

Students chose a culture or holiday theme for the mask and many decided on a Halloween theme.

Pioneer Works was at a table in the cafeteria with a winter themed activity where students made creative snowscapes with fake snow, glitter and a figurine to top their snowscape.

The BEAM Center had a table in the cafeteria where students could decorate disco balls. They used a hot glue gun to add tiles to their disco balls.

BEAM Center aims to help NYC kids and teens set and achieve ambitious goals. It’s a Brooklyn-based community where artists guide young creators aged six to 18 through programs in technology, imagination and craft.

There was a Hanukkah table with many dreidels and sheets of paper where students could color in dreidels with corresponding colors.

To eat and drink, there was hot chocolate, ice cream, gingerbread cookies and pizza from Mark’s on Van Brunt Street.

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