Week in Pictures May 19 – May 30

Friday: Ms. Lana Katrangi’s CM1 A Class is all smiles after rehearsing for their End-of-the-Year Show entitled “Couleurs et Humeurs” that will feature pianist and Cycle 3 music teacher, Sébastien Tomasini. Their show is on Friday, June 13, 2014. Mercredi: Tamara Gombert, une mère d’élève au Lycée, est spécialiste de la

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Un nouveau sport de raquettes au Lycée

L’équipe de squash 2013-2014 du Lycée Français de New York. Depuis le début de l’année scolaire, un nouveau sport fait partie de la palette des clubs proposés au Lycée: le squash. Peu pratiqué au niveau scolaire en France, le squash est très répandu dans les universités et high schools américaines.

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Par amour des lettres

Now that spring has arrived, it is time to speak of love, no? I am not certain that such was the intention of New York Times columnist David Brooks last week when he penned his wonderful article about a 1945 encounter between the British intellectual Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet

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Week in Pictures May 5 – May 11

Vendredi: Les quatre classes de moyenne section ont honoré les mamans à l’occasion du traditionnel petit-déjeuner de la fête des mères. Au programme: chants, croissants et roses! (Photo: Martica Uribe-Bouvet) Jeudi: Le fondateur de l’agence de webdesign H2O, Jason Dodd, explique aux élèves de 5ème comment créer un site internet.

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It’s Complicated Indeed!

There is some debate as to who coined the terms “digital native”, but I can recall where I myself first came across them. It was some ten years ago, in an article by educational technology thinker Marc Prensky, entitled “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.” “Today’s students”, affirmed the author, “have not just

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

The 2014 MS Co-ed Baseball Team. If you walk by the gym on any given afternoon this spring, you might see a sport being played that is brand new to the LFNY: baseball! Starting this spring, the school created a middle school co-ed baseball team, made up of students in

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