Mark your calendars for the following events:

• No school - Election Day - Tue, 11/4

• Election Day Bake Sale - Tue, 11/4

• Winter Clothing Drive - Through Wed, 11/5 (Extended!)

• K-4 Dragon Den Family Fun - Fri, 11/7, 8:30-9am

• Anderson Chess Tournament - Sat, 11/8, 9:30am

• No school - Veterans Day - Tue, 11/11

• PTA Meeting on ZOOM - Wed, 11/12, 7:30pm 

• Early Dismissal for Parent-Teacher Conferences - Thu, 11/13, 11:35am

• PTA Coffee & Donuts - Fri, 11/14, 8:30am, Library

• Parent Training to Become Lunch / Recess Volunteers - Fri, 11/14, 8:45am

• Building-wide Safety Town Hall - Fri, 11/21, 1:45pm, auditorium (Updated)

• Thanksgiving Eve Event - Wed, 11/26, School yard

Recent proposals to limit kindergarten entry into accelerated programs could directly affect schools like ours. To advocate for advanced learners, our PTA presidents worked with NEST+m, TAG, and Lower Lab to co-sign a joint letter to the three leading mayoral candidates, urging them to preserve and expand accelerated learning opportunities in public schools.

Now it’s our turn to act!

Please join more than 500 families who’ve already spoken up for their children’s right to learn at their own pace. Your voice matters - and together, we’re impossible to ignore.

👉 Click here to send your message. (Or paste this in your browser: https://tinyurl.com/4s8s3wdw)

You can personalize the message with your own story - every email reminds decision-makers that families care deeply about high-quality, accelerated public education.

Note: As a 501(c)(3), our PTA cannot endorse political candidates, but we can and will continue to advocate strongly for our school and all accelerated learners.

Stay tuned! On Wednesday, 11/26, our Thanksgiving Eve event will take place in the yard. Please save the date to volunteer and bring the family!

A friendly reminder: Grade-level Whatsapp groups are unofficial platforms of communication between members of the Anderson community. Please keep messages focused on school logistics and PTA topics. If parents wish to voice concerns or questions about matters taking place during school hours, please reach out directly to school administrators, teachers and SLT reps. Doing so will improve communication between families and school leaders. 

Thank you for helping us keep communication constructive and our community strong.

Anderson is kicking off the chess season with its first tournament on Saturday, November 8th - hope to see you there! Registration is now live!

New to Tournament Chess? We have Rookies and Unrated sections for grades Pre-K, K, 1st-3rd grades that do not require purchasing a USChess membership. Perfect for beginners! 

Please reach out to Coach Ivan if you have any questions. 

Please consider volunteering at the concession stand, and donating baked goods and fresh fruits here. We’d love your help!

The annual Anderson Auction is our second largest fundraiser of the year raising over 20% of our revenue budget and bringing families together in a fun and meaningful way. 

Congratulations and thank you to our newly elected auction co-chairs, Pooja Midha and Danielle Bualon. 

Please consider businesses and people we can ask to donate auction items. Let’s make the 2026 Auction unforgettable—together!

Express your appreciation for your child’s wonderful teachers by contributing to the Teachers Gift Fund. The funds will cover all holiday gifts through the end of the school year. The suggested donation is $65 per child per year. Payment options include:

• Zelle (preferred method)

     Recipient method: PARENTS OF P.S. 334, INC. 

     Email: treasurer@andersonpta.org

     Memo line: “Teacher Gift Fund Donation.”

• Venmo

     Enter Venmo handle @PS334PTA in the search box.

• PayPal

     https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=255QWSKXN8534

Let’s start the school year off right by thanking Anderson teachers and staff for all of their hard work. We are continuing the tradition of giving back with monthly Dragon Fuel, a surprise trolley of snacks and treats.

Please purchase some Dragon Fuel from the link to the Amazon wishlist, and it will be delivered directly to the school for distribution.

Thank you for supporting the Anderson community! We will periodically add more items to the wishlist, so please check back often. 

Support Dragon Fuel Here

Please continue to send in your photos of our students at Anderson events to be considered to appear in the yearbook.

• yearbook2026@andersonpta.org (8th grade)

• yearbook2027@andersonpta.org (7th grade)

• yearbook2028@andersonpta.org (6th grade)

• yearbook2029@andersonpta.org (5th grade)

• yearbook2030@andersonpta.org (4th grade)

• yearbook2031@andersonpta.org (3rd grade)

• yearbook2032@andersonpta.org (2nd grade)

• yearbook2033@andersonpta.org (1st grade)

• yearbook2034@andersonpta.org (Kindergarten)

In the subject line, please try to include the students' names and the school event pictured (i.e. Spooktacular). Also, please be sure to send high resolution images (actual photo size). Thank you.

Hello families, your pictures are ready to view! Spoiler alert -- they are AWESOME. Visit stompinggroundphoto.com and click View & Purchase in the top right to shop. For order deadlines, shipping timeline, or any other questions, please visit our school's Picture Day Page HERE. 

Your child’s school photos aren’t just memories, they help raise funds for our school! Stomping Ground will contribute a fundraising payout based on total photo sales (excluding tax, shipping, and discounts):

• 15% of net sales if participation reaches 50% or more

• 10% of net sales if participation is 40–49.99%

• 0% if participation is below 40%

Every order counts toward our goal!

Please place your order by the second ordering deadline (January 20, 2026) to help us unlock the highest fundraising tier and support enrichment programs for our students.

Thank you to the families who have already donated over $100,000 toward our goal of $500,000 – we are excited to see fantastic participation so far and hope all families will contribute what they can this year!

We hope you received our flyer in your student's backpack, and we have linked to the digital copy HERE.  Read it to learn more about how the Anderson PTA raises funds, and understand how critical the role of Direct Appeal is in bridging the gap between what the DOE provides and what the robust Anderson experience looks like across K-8. We hope all families will participate, regardless of donation size. 

To learn more about where the funds are spent or donate, you can also visit: andersonpta.org/fundraising/direct-appeal

QUESTIONS?  directappeal@andersonpta.org

We'd like to remind everyone that please do your part and check your child’s head for head lice – you should be doing this once a week, in any case. If you find lice or nits, report it to the main office – no names will be mentioned. Present your child to the main office for a head inspection upon returning to school. 

A quick dummies guide shared by the School Administration can be found here. 

Some basic lice info for you:

• Anybody can get head lice – they prefer clean hair!
• Head lice are small insects with six legs usually the size of a sesame seed.
• They live on or very close to the scalp and don’t wander far down the hair shafts for very long.
• Spread of head lice requires direct head to head contact.  They can’t swim, fly, hop or jump. Instruct children not to share hats, combs, brushes, etc.
• They can only live on human beings; you can’t catch them from or give them to animals.
• Nits are not the same thing as lice. Nits are the eggs laid by lice; they can be smaller than a pin head or the size and shape of a grain of rice, they are stuck onto the side of a hair shaft, are usually pearly white (but sometimes grey or brown.)
• Nits must be combed out with a good quality lice comb or pulled off the hair shaft, or they will hatch into lice!

Returning to School

• Students found to have live head lice will be excluded from school.
• Students may return to school the day after treatment for head lice as long as there are no live lice upon re-inspection by school staff.
• Students will be re-inspected by designated school personnel 14 days after initial treatment to make sure there are no live head lice.

The Grand Bazaarprovides affordable retail space for local artisans and dealers. It is a significant fundraiser for the Anderson School PTA, earning tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Regular Market Is On! 

In addition to Open Streets, the Market will be open, as usual. Every Sunday @ Columbus Ave. & 77th St (the Anderson School Yard) from 10am - 5pm.

The Anderson School PS 334

100 W 77th St

New York, NY,10024