Friday pm: Students and teachers play a friendly basketball game. (credit: Hong Tam Andre) Friday am: In a yearlong project, third-grade students are learning about prehistoric man, including the art of cave painting from the times of Lascaux. Here, three students and Primary art teacher, Mireille Miller, used natural pigments
Read More!Month: February 2014
Transmettre le feu sacré
Le défi était double. Il y avait d’abord la danse. Comment convaincre des filles et des garçons des classes de troisième de se mouvoir sans inhibition en duo sur la scène de l’auditorium ? Et puis les sentiments… Comment amener ces adolescents à chercher en eux les ressources pour exprimer
Read More!Connecting academics and government
The LFNY team in front of the gate of the prestigious Harvard campus. Eighteen Y11 and Y12 students participated in the 29th annual Harvard Model Congress in Boston this year. Lycée students were among 1400 students from 20 states to participate in the government simulation conference organized by Harvard University students.
Read More!Comment mieux gérer (et conserver) son énergie
Quelques minutes de profonde respiration, fermer les yeux, prendre conscience de notre état d’humeur et d’énergie. Annie Perrin a le don de mettre son audience en confiance. La vice-présidente du groupe The Energy Project était au LFNY le 20 février dernier afin de nous parler de notre énergie. Le travail
Read More!Teaching our Students about Social Entrepreneurship
Each year, the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York is proud to organize three “21st Century Citizenship Panel Discussions.” These evening events are intended for Lycee Francais de New York students and other members of the school community, but are also open to the public at large. After
Read More!One Year Later – Preschool Hit During Hurricane Sandy Returns Home
Inside Little Tots Red Wagon, right after Hurricane Sandy, in November 2012. Just before Halloween 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall, destroying countless areas along the eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine. It did severe damage in New Jersey and New York. Breezy Point, located on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens,
Read More!The Math Hatter Chronicle #5
Because she was too busy helping the king’s men and the king’s horses putting Humpty Dumpty together back on the wall, Alice didn’t have time to find a gift for Tweedledum and Tweedledee’s birthday. At the last minute, she gave each of them a $100 bill and the twins were
Read More!A propos de la rigueur
The early morning at the the Lycée Français de New York is a wonderful time because it is then that we welcome our students to school. It is also when we have the opportunity to engage in many a thought-provoking conversation about education. “Mr. Lynch, by any chance have you
Read More!Charting a Course for the Future
What’s your day to day like? How did you end up in that career? What should I study in college? What does it mean to be a sports agent? to work at Human Rights Watch? to be a lawyer? to be an engineer? What makes a good journalist? On a
Read More!Talking about College, without Anxiety
Fresh air and nature inspire the 10th graders to open up about their college plans and concerns. “…And in January, we’re all going to go to an overnight camp together! Frost Valley!” My audience of freshly scrubbed, back-to-school tenth graders looked simultaneously shocked and intrigued. Qu’est-ce que c’est, Madame Pluta?
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