Friday: Mime-artist Bill Bowers teaches second graders to express themselves using their body and not their voice. For instance, he instructs them to express geometric shapes, pull on a rope, push an imaginary wall, or pass to one another an imaginary box and act as if they discovered what’s inside–all without speaking.
Thursday: 3rd graders are spending a week away in the green and clean air in Connecticut. See more photos and videos of their trip on the Primary blog. (credit: S. Freland)
Wednesday: Lots of questions for Ambassador Frank Wisner, who visited Rachelle Friedman’s seventh-grade history-geography class to share his experience as a US diplomat in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Zambia. “Africa has made huge strides in recent years, and it’s going to be very relevant to all of your lives,” he said. (credit: E. King)
Wednesday: Sixth grader Milo enjoyed a special vegetarian meal of roasted cauliflower and chickpeas on the menu for Earth Day. The school cafeteria has instituted a number of energy- and water-saving initiatives, saving 72,000 gallons of water and 7427 kWh of electricity in the past year alone. (credit: E. King)
Tuesday: Eighth-grade student Elea D’A. won First Prize for her design of three dresses (here, the wedding dress) using Nespresso capsules during the Fashion Show organized every year. The student said she used all different flavors (and colors) of capsules to represent diversity at the school.
Tuesday: Belgian actor Jos Houben is spending a week with the tenth graders as part of an art residency. Here, he shows them the many unconscious steps that go into losing one’s balance and falling.
Monday: A group of sixth graders head to the Carnegie East House, an assisted-living facility, to spend an hour and a half doing community service with the elderly.
About the Author :
Former journalist, Cecile is passionate about multimedia storytelling. With her camera, notepad and microphone, she enjoys telling the great stories that are happening at the Lycée. Cecile was formerly senior communications manager at the school.