“Ask others to dance with you – even if you don’t know them.” This directive, listed as a rule for “How to Have Fun at the Family Folk Dance”, is at the heart of this beloved event. The intergenerational celebration of traditional dance, which will hold its 19th rendition this Saturday, January 12th, is a […]
Dec. 12, 2018 Registration for Winter/Spring 2019 Afterschool is now underway and will conclude on Monday, Dec. 17. That means that BFS pre, lower, and middle school families have five days to consider which classes students will take during afterschool hours in the new year. Afterschool provides countless ways for students to stretch their imaginations, […]
Enjoy Season 3, Episode 5 of The Life: TechCity. Get an inside look at academic technology at BFS, shared by the students themselves in IB Computer Science class, MS Technology class, and Lower Schoolers working in the Maker Space. Beyond the depth of their learning, what stands out most is the ease with which all […]
by Kate Minear, Math Specialist for Grades 3 and 4 Mathematics is about so much more than just calculation. Mathematicians wonder, ask questions, estimate, investigate, and so much more. We work to provide opportunities for our lower school mathematicians to do all these types of math thinking. One structure we use is called a “Three […]
All Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Grade families are cordially invited to a Listening Party to celebrate the release of Adam Gidwitz’s debut podcast, Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest! Adam will be coming to celebrate the exciting release with BFS children and families on Tuesday October 30th. The celebration will be held in the Lower School […]
Thursday, May 24th was a joyful and busy morning at Brooklyn Friends School. The All School Art Show was on display on the walls and tables of all three buildings, the Used Book Sale hosted by the PAT was spread across the sunny Pearl Street sidewalk and the Kindergarten and First Grade classrooms were […]
What do you get when you combine some circuitry, an electronic circuit board, coding know-how, and tinkering skills together? A dancing robot, of course! Our fourth graders embarked on a brand new robotics and programming unit this year. They assembled their own circuits with servos, attached them to Adafruit’s Circuit Playground Express (named after the […]
by Kate Minear, Lower School Math Specialist Many of us remember a teacher saying “and then just carry the one,” when we were learning how to add multi-digit numbers. There may have been little explanation or exploration of why that would work. At Brooklyn Friends, we want our young mathematicians to make sense of […]
by the BFS Third Grade Teachers Exploration and Imagination in Math We are winding down our significant math unit on larger addition and subtraction. In this unit we introduced addition and subtraction stacking, choosing efficient strategies based on the numbers, and word problems. We capitalize on 3rd graders love of play, exploration and imagination to […]
The formal BFS changemaker curriculum started almost 10 years ago in the second grade classrooms of Denise Parks and Margaret Trissel. Over the years it has grown to embrace the entire BFS community, from the preschool — where children learn about the changemakers of the civil rights movement — through our Upper School, where students […]
The Winter/Spring session of Afterschool begins in January. Registration is on a first come basis and should be completed by Monday, Dec. 18. To register for the Winter/Spring Afterschool program and specialty classes, go to MyBackpack and click on Program Registration (under My Forms/Documents). Besides our usual crowd-pleasers, Afterschool has some great new Specialty class offerings in 2018: […]
Ken Alston, right, in Three Mo’ Tenors. Ken Alston began working in the BFS Afterschool program in September, 2016. The story of his joining the community begins a few years earlier. “I’ve been trying [to work at BFS] for years. My aunt has been trying for years,” Ken Alston Jr. […]
