Secondary English teacher Jamie Laurens with her 9th grade advisory group on January 9th. It’s Friday, January 9th. I face a room full of questions, with a mind brimming with my own. And so, I begin by asking. My ninth grade advisees have formed a tighter circle than usual. They
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Friday: Primary students just in from recess wash their hands before heading to lunch in the nearby cafeteria. Thursday: No recess today in the preschool and the primary school as temperatures average 15°F. Wednesday: Le Monde correspondent in New York Stéphane Lauer participated in a Q&A session after the screening
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Poésie et musique sont deux versants d’une même activité artistique que l’histoire de la littérature a séparés mais que les musiciens, chansonniers, chanteurs contemporains n’ont jamais cessé de rassembler dans leur création. Les grands poètes français, comme Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, ont ainsi été mis en musique par les grands
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During the week of December 8, both the Primary and Secondary Schools of the LFNY participated in the Hour of Code, a week-long initiative to promote awareness and importance of including computer science in today’s 21st century curriculum. Coding is becoming more accessible to students, due to the evolution of
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Vendredi: Les élèves d’une classe de CE1 étudient les techniques du peintre abstrait Kandinsky. Ils travaillent dans le calme, avec, comme fond sonore, la musique d’Erik Satie : “ça m’aide à dessiner et ça me détend en même temps”, remarque Inès, l’une des élèves. Jeudi: Soirée de réunions inter-niveaux dans l’école primaire. Ici,
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Leaving one’s “comfort zone” is not always easy, but doing so lies squarely at the heart of learning. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the notion of comfort zone can be defined as “1. the temperature range within which one is comfortable; 2. the level at which one functions with ease and
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Before arriving to Hué’s primary school, we had a fairly clear idea of what to expect: a few classes of thirty or so students, who all had at least a basic level of English. We made a lesson plan based on those assumptions, yet the reality was not at all
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Friday: Pre-K students rehearse with their music teacher for the upcoming Winter Concert. After practicing singing on stage, the children take a break and work on their motor skills with plastic sticks while learning French vocabulary “bâtons parallèles!” Thursday: Head of school Sean Lynch leads the ASHOKA Club, that teaches
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Des matelots à bord de L’Hermione. Marc Jensen, de la promotion 1976 du Lycée Français, a rencontré tous les élèves de CM2 afin de leur parler de son aventure à bord de l’Hermione mercredi 12 novembre dernier. Marc fait partie des 160 heureux-élus (sur plus de 1000 candidats) qui auront la chance de
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The Music Lesson, by Charles West Cope (1869). Every so often, I will have a hallway conversation like the one I had this past week. Someone will mention that his or her daughter or son, typically in the upper grades of primary school or the lower grades of middle school, has been
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