Le tableau de Peter Bruegel, Les Jeux d’enfants (1560). Bruegel’s painting Children’s Games may be 500 years old, but it’s very current in the eyes of our CE2 D students. For six months this past spring, the third-grade students studied and then created their own giant painting inspired by
Read More!Month: June 2014
IDD, a Collaborative Approach to Learning
IDD (itinéraire de découverte) is an interdisciplinary discovery project that helps teachers diversify learning strategies, connect disciplines, and teach students how to nurture their intellectual curiosity through research. Ms. Emilie Lauzy, history-geography teacher, and Mr. Sory Koité, science teacher, guided their eight-grade students through the IDD process of researching and presenting topics on
Read More!Week in Pictures June 9-15
Friday: GS D teacher Tara Silber helps one of her students through the “Le Serveur” obstacle course during Olym’puces. (Photo: J. Charles) Thursday: Class of 2014 students shift their cap tassel from right to left, and voilà! They have graduated! Congratulations to them all; they will be missed. Wednesday: Representatives from
Read More!L’année culturelle
Francis Cabrel at the Lycée Français de New York, in March 2014. The school year comes to an end and already the summer holidays have become a primary topic of conversation. However, if we take a minute before packing our suitcases to pause and freeze-frame on this past year, here is
Read More!Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, FESTIMAJ!
The international student film festival Festimaj was introduced to the LFNY community in the fall by Primary computer teacher Sébastien Freland. M. Freland who also worked with Emmanuel Rouy, Sébastien Tomasini et Mireille Miller and the fourth- and fifth-grade students in the extracurricular Primary club “C’est pas magique, c’est scientifique“ to
Read More!Week in Pictures June 2 – June 8
Vendredi: À l’occasion du 70e anniversaire du débarquement, des élèves de 3e rendent visite aux classes de CM2 pour leur parler de cet évènement historique, qu’ils ont appris en histoire. L’occasion d’un échange sur un moment de l’histoire particulièrement important pour la France et les Etats-Unis. Jeudi: L’ensemble des élèves
Read More!The Math Hatter Chronicle #6
I don’t know about you but I’ve always had a thing for bathtub problems. I know they are a bit out of fashion and may be responsible for a lot of despair among students of past generations but I always liked them for their ingenuity. Of course, these problems can
Read More!La gymnastique au LFNY, un bel esprit d’équipe
Équipe Middle School. (A. Brevet) Sport olympique et exigeant, la gymnastique est aussi et avant tout une passion: connaître la satisfaction d’avoir réussi un nouvel élément, l’indescriptible sensation dans les airs ou encore la fierté de maîtriser son enchaînement devant la juge! À la poutre. (E. Dunand) La gymnastique demande
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