The goal of computer programming club is to foster interest in computer science and provide students with a foundation of skills as they explore their interests in programming, engineering, and design. During the year, students work on projects that harness their collaboration, creative problem solving, and critical thinking skills such
Read More!Category: Featured
Week in Pictures March 3 to 9
Vendredi: C’est déjà le spectacle de fin d’année des CM2! (Crédits : E. Loewe) Jeudi: Deux élèves de CE1 présentent un exposé sur l’artiste-peintre impressionniste Mary Cassatt, que la classe a étudiée en arts plastiques. Mercredi: Un élève de 6ème fait ses devoirs dans la salle d’informatique du CDI. Aujourd’hui
Read More!Percival’s Question
Two thoughts kept coming to mind this past Thursday evening, as I listened to the remarkable discussion on social entrepreneurship taking place in the Lycée Français de New York Cultural Center. The first was one of gratitude to Pascale Richard for organizing such a brilliant event, which from the large
Read More!Week in Pictures February 24 to March 2
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!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!