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Anime stars: an original Drawing by Elizabeth Peña

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The character in the middle with the straw hat is Luffy from One Piece. The one in the bottom center with the green hair is Deku from My Hero Academia. The all-yellow guy is Naruto from Naruto Shippuden. The guy in the bottom right with the golden eyes is Gon from HunterxHunter, and lastly the character with the black-green robe is Tanjiro from Demon Slayer. – Elizabeth Peña, 6LV.

Art in the Time of Quarantine

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(Picture above by Calvin Barratt, grade 3, and Dean Barratt, pre-k)

By Henry DiZefalo

As most of you know, my mom, Mrs. DiZefalo, is the art teacher at BBES. 

Since we’ve been home doing virtual learning, she started making YouTube videos for her classes. Even though we are not at school, Mrs. DiZefalo is still coming up with art lessons and kids are turning them in.

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It Takes 42 Muscles

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Fiction

By Claire Cooperman

Scene 1- The New Kid

Some people may think that writing an essay about what you could do to change the world can change the way a person looks at the world. It just wasn’t that way for me, until Lily helped me see myself and my surroundings in a way I never thought was possible.

“Write an essay about what you could do to make the world a better place. It has to be at least one page and done by…”

Right now I would love to fly away to a far away land through giant white clouds in the big blue sky, or swim in the cool blue ocean with the turtles and fish as my friends, but I’m stuck in the classroom not thinking a girl like me could ever change the world. I am not an amazingly intelligent witch like Hermione Granger, or a young heroine with a dazzling imagination like Anne of Green Gables. I’m just a quiet girl, looking for her place in the world, yet having no luck.

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